Two cute ones of the boy sleeping

Last night with Puppy & Teddie and today during nap time.


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To be a Mom

Today as I was changing Levi's diaper he decided that he did not want to lay down anymore (this is pretty common) and he stood-up like a pro. I am getting pretty good and fast on putting on a clean diaper. This morning, though, he decided that he wanted to get close to me before I had the chance to put his diaper on. As he was approaching me he started peeing and as I am trying to hold him back with one hand, I am trying to catch the pee in the other. Oh, to be a mom.

In other news: Levi learned today that when he hits his head on the door it makes a cool sound. He was proud of himself for making this new noise and I think he would have continued to bang his head on the door all morning if I had not picked him up and distracted him.



I just realized that I did not have any good pictures of Levi for this last month - most are blurry or is the back of him. He is on the go constantly. But here's a little video of him playing in the toy car.

Coolest Vendor Swag Ever

I love my job. I especially love it when I get free stuff from vendors.
Some people don't like to sully themselves with vendor swag and I can
appreciate their position on that. But, I'm also a little cheap, so I'll
take free stuff when I get it. If a vendor thinks trinkets and food will
buy my loyalty more than competitive prices and good service, well that's
just dumb. I'm happy to take the trinkets and food, though - I figure it's
built into the cost of the products I buy anyway.

And, so, about every month or so I get a free lunch from one vendor or
another. I took Sonja and her parents to the new Indiana Jones movie at a
nice theater in Bellevue (and they gave us each a $10 concession stand gift
card) - all on a vendor. A vendor one time even sent me an iPod Nano (a
partnership promo with HP).

But, today when I got back to my desk after a meeting, there was a rather
large box in my chair. The return address was from AT&T. I didn't order
anything from AT&T (personal or business). Nor did my co-workers. So, I
opened it up. And found the coolest vendor swag ever! A remote control
race car - replete with my name on it!

Of course, as you can see, they didn't send the remote for it. To get that
I need to meet with them and hear about their offerings. The kicker is that
I'm not the one with buying authority! They should have sent it to my boss
(not sure how they got me as the contact on it). And, some Google searching
finds that the car can be bought a handful of places for around $40 (with a
remote!), so it's not like it's super expensive swag. But, still, they get
some style points for sending me a remote control car. Especially one with
my name on it!

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Signs From the Lord?

I think the Lord is giving Sonja and me a sign*. Yes, Lord, we will obey.

*Actually, I’m not that big on “signs” from the Lord. I think God does definitely give people “signs”,but I don’t think they’re vague impressions that are open to interpretation that people tout out today and use as excuses for all kinds of random activities. Examples from the Bible show that when God showed a “sign” to someone, it was usually miraculous in nature and could mean nothing but a direct message from God - and it often came with much fearand even once a talking animal. Greg Koukl has a great talk about this called Decision Making and the Will of God - or better yet, but the whole Ambassador Basic Curriculum set. The pictures above actually have a very good explanation - a couple days ago I was browsing on Travelocity’s site for tickets from Seattle to Des Moines. With user tracking and cookie technology today, these adds are no surprise at all. But, humorous nonetheless.

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Gmail tells you when someone else is in your account

Also saw they have a new spell checker interface.  All kinds of new stuff!

 

 

 

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Real Programmers Use vi

Saw this license plate - made me think of @dave_nash and Nate A. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile

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Levi's Birthday Week

So, we had a 1st birthday party planned for Levi but the week before he wasn't feeling well. Tycen and I debated about what to do but when his fever was staying around 102.5 the day before his party, we figured we better cancel. His fever broke early Sunday morning.

Being mom and a little emotional that this was my sons first birthday, I still wanted to do something. Levi was feeling better on Sunday. Tycen's parents were in town my parents stopped by with cupcakes and we had a small birthday celebration. It was nice

birthday boy

Thursday Levi and I went raspberry picking with Granny (my mom). He was such a big helper - he would taste test the berries, see if they were good squishing berries and also see if he could tip the box of berries over. He really did good just hanging out between mom and Granny.

Levi is most happy when he is outside. He can be playing contently inside but when he sees the door open he will make his break for the outside. Lucky for me he is fascinated with the outside faucet, old wishing well and the rocks around it.

New Slide

Levi enjoying the new slide Grandma Don got for him. As soon as we finished putting it together, he climbed right up it like he had done it a dozen times before.

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