Happy New Year!!!

2007_12_31

Okay okay, so it IS the most wonderful time of the year afterall...

Merry [belated] Christmas to everyone. We had a great day, Tyler was absolutely loving every minute of it. Of course, it was probably a bit much in retrospect. We started opening presents at 8:30 and finished at 5:30 (not counting the ones that arrived today in the mail...) No, I didn't get those times backwards, we really spent most of the day opening presents, it was fun. I made Tyler a train table, and Gail and Paul supplied a lot of the tracks and accessories for him. We set it up in the back room with some chairs blocking his view... it was our attempt at getting him to open most of the presents before just gluing himself to the trains... but it didn't last long when he opened a new train and immediately wanted to go put it on the tracks... he ran into the chairs and was like "what the!?"... so we opened it up and he slowly walked over to the table, as if to say, "is this really here? where did this come from... Ah... who cares, let's play!". It was all over after that... not very interested in leaving it, not too interested in what else there was to open, but we eventually convinced him that there was more neat stuff to unwrap... then he got back into it. It was fun. Thanks everyone for everything, and we hope you all had a great day as well!

Here are some pictures from Christmas

Christmas '07

And here are a couple of good videos... I have a lot more, but they will upload tonight and I'll post them tomorrow.

"A fire truck...fire truck...fire truck...fire truck..."


"a book"

"It's the most, wonderful time of the year"

...yeah right...Johnny Mathis probably wasn't losing his job when he wrote that song... But seriously... I assume you all heard by now, Qimonda is consolidating the R&D for North America under one roof...unfortunately, that roof is in Cary, North Carolina. They are closing our office. Roughly 50 people out of the 130 that I work with will be given the opportunity to relocate. We will find out who is eligible on January 11th. Needless to say the timing could be better, given the baby on the way in February and the new house and all, but all said and done, Katie and I are doing just fine. We will try to stay right where we are, but to be honest, there are not a lot of semiconductor test engineering jobs up here (shocking, I know).

Enough about that though, because after all, this IS a wonderful time of the year, and Tyler is enjoying every minute of it. Picking out the three, playing in the snow, building a ginger-bread house, trains, cookies, family and friends visiting... we are having fun.

I hope you all are enjoying the season as well, and we wish you all a Merry Christmas!

2007_12_23

We got Elfed!!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1647271194

Today we took Tyler to an allergist (he's been getting some rashes and hives sort of randomly for a while now) and they did a few tests for some common allergies... Unfortunately, his reaction to cat, dog, and peanut were what they called "severe". Good to find out, but not good results I guess. He's definitely been around cats and dogs, but what spurred on the visit was a neighborhood dog that brushed up against his face and he broke out with nasty hives on his cheek. No shortness of breath or anything like that, but they prescribed an inhaler just in case, and suggested that we keep him away from them if possible. Apparently it depends on the amount of "dander" exposed to, what the reaction might be, but he figured with such a strong "positive" to the test, that an asthmatic reaction would not be unexpected.
The peanut thing has us a little more worried, because apparently his reaction was severe enough for the doctor to prescribe an Epi-pen. Yikes!

Train show

On Saturday we took Tyler to a "Train Show" at a local high school. It was more like a flea market for train stuff, mostly old electric ones. Some really neat stuff for sure, but we really just went to see the models all set up. There were some really elaborate lay-outs, one made entirely of legos by a little kid... impressive. I think Tyler could have stayed all day watching them go around and around... but my arms were killing me after 2 hours :-) Unfortunately they're all set up at about waist height, which for Tyler is over his head, so he couldn't see most of them without being held... which is fine, except as I said, he could watch them for hours. There was one really big one (I don't know the technical terms..."something"-guage) but it was BIG, and right next to it, was a tiny little one, almost like micro-machine size. The guy running it was also tiny (and come to think of it, looked a little like the guy that used to do the comercials for the micro machines, you know, the one who talked really fast) only he was, shall we say..."vertically challenged"?... you get the idea... but it was great, every single person that came over would say, "Oh look, a little one!.... ah....a little TRAIN... a little train...look...."... I wonder how many times a day he heard that. I have to admit, I did it myself.

Anyhow,I didn't take many pictures while we were there, but I took some videos of the trains.

The other pictures here are of Tyler begging for more hot chocolate... cooled off, of course.

2007_12_01

More snow!

2007_11_28

Hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving!

Well it's a couple days late, but "Happy Thanksgiving".
Hope everyone had a great day!

2007_11_24

Cheese!


Water painting (the dots on the page sort of smear and melt when you brush them with water... Tyler loves it)

2007_11_21

First bike ride...


Frisbee...


Halloween haul...



whoa, whoa, whoa,


drawing on the driveway...

2007_11_15

hard to believe this was a year ago...
http://chrisfieldsend.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html


and here is Tyler this year, a little "Engineer"...

Happy Halloween!

2007_10_31

2007_10_21

finally, more pictures...

Sorry it's been so long since the last post. My laptop was busted and I finally got around to fixing it, so I could offload the pictures from my camera. There's lots of good ones here. As you can see, we've been busy as usual. And, for those of you who haven't heard, we have some other exciting news about the baby-on-board... IT'S A GIRL!!! Yeah, I know what you're thinking... "how can you be sure?"... I guess we can't be positive, but I'll just say this, technology is amazing... the doctor could clearly see an "inny" not an "outy" :-) She said she was "quite positive". We're so excited!

2007_10_02

2007_09_08

Photo contest

My company is having a photo contest for pictures from North America (for a calendar). I thought I would submit a few so I gathered some of my favorites up and figured I might as well share them here also...

America

2007_09_03

"jump"

Tyler's been working hard this summer

(Just kidding about the working part, but you'll get it when you see the pictures)

2007_08_29

Tylervideopalooza

Merry Christmas mom... :-)

Sprinker fun:





Can you say "Boat"?....





Whoaaaaa....



Berry Thief:


Just the blue ones...


Say Cheese!




Buh-bye


Sliding by himself-
This was at a birthday party...they made the hats as favors (in case you were wondering).


weeeee....


This is Tyler's friend Jack, doing "cart-wheels"...


Tyler vacuuming...


whistle-blower:

2007_08_17

2007_08_11

Hope you're all enjoying a relaxing summer...

 

Hi Everyone!
Sorry for the lack of updates lately... As most of you know I'm sure, we recently bought a new house and have been busy unpacking and getting settled in. So far Tyler has adjusted well to the new place, he seems very happy to have more space to run around, both inside and out! Anyhow, we haven't given up on the pictures and the blog, but have been a little side tracked recently.

Stay tuned.

-Chris, Katie & Tyler

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2007_07_05

2007_06_23

Making mud pies

Not wild about the color....

A quick dance (Don't ask me what he's listening to)

2007_06_13

2007_06_04

Lots of pictures here, some from the park, some from Lucy's birthday party, and some from everywhere else...

2007_06_03

Today we took Tyler to "A Day Out With Thomas" over in the Adirondacks at the Upper Hudson Railroad museum. Thomas was there for a ride, Sir Topam Hat was there for a photo, and every possible thing you could possibly put a Thomas face, logo, or picture on was for sale. Tyler had fun, he was so good... really excited to see a "life size" Thomas engine! He even got a temporary tatoo (sticker) of Thomas... and a t-shirt...and a train... and a placemat... and book...and another book... and a....

A Day Out With Thomas

5_25_07

Like father, like son (needs volume)

Double-click to take you to the album...

2007_05_19

New pictures... finally! (sorry)

2007_05_11

2007_04_29

Click to take you to yet another album:

2007_04_23

Videos:

Click here to go see some recent videos:

My Videos

2007_04_18

Well it's nice to finally have some weather to get outside and enjoy! So much for the "nor'easter of the year"... in VT at least, just rain and now 60 degree days!
Sorry for the long time between updates...Enjoy these new pictures...

Happy Easter!

2007_04_08

Sorry, it's been a while since my last post. I've been working late every night and when I get home the last thing I want to do is turn on a computer :-)

No excuses for not sharing these great pictures though... Enjoy...
(He's getting so big! and he's not even 1.5!)

2007_03_30

Tyler's got teeth!!!

Finally, after 14.5 months, we're happy to announce that Mr Tyler Michael officially has teeth! His two front teeth popped through on St Patty's day...luck of the Irish I guess! Check 'em out...

Tyler's Got Teeth!!

'sitting

So we had a great treat the past few days. Friends of ours went to Aruba and we got to baby-house-sit and hang out with Jack for a few days!

'sitting

What's this?

Well I hate to throw a curve ball at you, but it seems that Google, in their infinite wisdom, has some how broken the "Blogger" utilities that I use(d). I will still post pictures, but until they fix the new "feature" I will be using Picassa Web Albums.
It means you have to click on the album to view the pictures inside, and any of my comments will show up in the lower left when you're viewing the thumbs. Okay, enough talking, click here to check it out:

2007_03_15

I will try to post links to new albums and videos on the blog here, but if you're really interested, you should probably bookmark the albums page, so you can get back there directly.

http://picasaweb.google.com/ChrisFieldsend

Let me know if you have problems.

-Chris

 

 

 

 

FORE!!

New Boots

Checking out the snow melt

How many trains can you see in this picture? [Five]