Archive for December, 2009
2 Videos of the kids playing
December 31st, 2009 / posted by Jake
This first video is of Tyler and me playing catch followed by Kaitlyn showing off the house Santa brought her. Apparently at about the 1:00 mark, some midget-fairy came into the room and started talking for a few seconds, in case you were wondering whose high-pitched voice that was.
As was mentioned earlier, I taught Tyler how to ride his bikes without training wheels Thanksgiving day 2009. At the time, he had a small beginners bike and a bike that was slightly too big for him. Even though he could ride both on his own, the small one was falling apart and the only way for him to dismount from the bigger bike was to fall off it completely. So Santa rescued him by bringing him a medium sized bike.
Note: Sorry for the quality of the videos. they were taken with my camera phone. Luckily Santa brought me a real video camera.
Winter is finally here so bring on the fun!
December 22nd, 2009 / posted by Jake
While eating at our favorite food joint two weeks ago, Costa Vida, Tyler was monkeying around and face planted into the edge of a table there. Lindsey took him to the ER because he was bleeding profusely from his mouth. The doctor said his upper teeth ALMOST went through his lower lip and the hole made was pretty big and will take some time to heal. He didn’t receive stitches but was given medicine to help with the healing process.
2 weeks after we finished unpacking and organizing everything in our new home we were pleased to have our friend Amanda and her son Brandon stay with us for a few weeks. Unfortunately because of my work schedule, I wasn’t able to provide much entertainment for them during normal hours however Lindsey was able to and boy did they remain busy! San Francisco, the Zoo, the Aquarium, shopping, Christmas decorating, the park & playgrounds, site seeing, to name just a few events they had planned. During this same time an English friend of mine from my mission in Holland came and stayed with us for a few days which was also fun. I enjoy hearing proper English and having an opportunity to make fun of us fat Americans with him.
This last Friday night after work, we drove down to Southern California to visit Lindsey’s family for 2 days which was a blast. They received a ton of presents and were able to enjoy seeing Grandma’s and Grandpa for the weekend. We made the drive back Sunday evening which was unfortunate because it would have been nice to stay for a week or so but we’ll have to plan it better next time we visit. Even though the drive to and from was boring and seemed to take forever, I still prefer driving to flying because it’s much faster and efficient.
As of last week, Lindsey is officially a stay at home mom! She quit her job as a property manager of 5 years and now spends her days entertaining and teaching the kids. I told her I expect 7 course meals to be hot and ready the moment 6:00 pm hits each and every day. I’ve yet to have this happen and realized in order for this to work I would then be required to actually goto the grocery store and buy groceries. This of course I’ve been procrastinating for almost 2 weeks now out of pure laziness so I guess I’ll have to do my part tonight to get this ‘habit’ started.
Update: Over the Thanksgiving break, I took the training wheels off Tyler’s bikes and taught him how to ride a bike! He was very cautious at first but once he gained confidence there was no stopping him. Every chance he gets, he’s outside riding his bike up and down the court trying to keep up with the other kids on their bikes. It was a lot of fun teaching him and then seeing him actually do it!
I recently went to a concert put on by my favorite band of all time – Metallica. It was hands down the best concert ever. They played Fade to Black even. I’m ready to bring Tyler next time.
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