Nothing too exciting, just a little taste of his daily routine...

2008_01_27

So it's been a while since the last update... I'm sure you all understand, we've been a little preoccupied lately. We are ready for this baby to arrive, Katie is especially anxious (I can understand why). I have had no luck on the job front locally, and will officially accept the offer to move to NC tomorrow (deadline). Tyler has been keeping busy as well, as you will see in the pictures...

2008_01_16

Happy Birthday Tyler!

I can't believe our little boy is two!

2008_01_07

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