tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45792368365038480302024-10-24T17:57:47.853-04:00Random thoughts, pictures of my daughter and other things that have been rattling around in my brain. Please visit my <a href="http://www.teamfox.org/siteapps/personalpage/ShowPage.aspx?c=bkIUJbNQKoLaG&amp;b=6376247&amp;sid=nmI6KlM7JuL3JhO2LvH">Team Fox page</a> and help me reach my goal of raising $5,200 for Parkinson's research.@b3kohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02305613775021597984noreply@blogger.comBlogger64125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4579236836503848030.post-68299650813707067022011-05-18T21:18:00.000-04:002011-05-18T21:18:53.785-04:00

Baseball was introduced to me at an age when I was still too young to form my own opinions, and similar to religion, food preferences and a lot of other life choices, I started off doing what my parents do. &nbsp;Yes, there was a chance to change allegiance when I was older, as I did with food preferences and some other habits as a teenager, but being a Yankee fan is just part of who I am. &nbsp;

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Back in the day when it was a punishable offense to call your older brother a doody-head, my family embarked on quite a few camping trips. I learned quite a bit on those trips, but it wasn't until reading an article today that I realized that everyone didn't learn to curse while watching their dad set up a tent in the rain. This was surprising to me. My dad had a bit of a curse (no pun

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When teaching someone else a new task, there are standard methods and then there are the more, shall we say, strange methods. My dad started off with the standard method of teaching me to ride a bike: Get me started on training wheels then take the wheels off and let me ride a little while he holds the bike. When he felt I was going well, he would let go without me knowing. Standard, age old

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'A' enjoying the snow from the warmth of the indoors. 

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Last father’s day I decided to blog some stories about my dad from when I was a kid.&nbsp; It was going to be mostly stories poking fun of my dad in the hopes of also raising money for Parkinson’s disease research.Father’s day came and went and I haven’t done much of anything.&nbsp; But things are getting easier on the home front.&nbsp; ‘A’ is sleeping better (not great, but better) and I have a

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I haven't been posting as much as I would like. &nbsp;Truth be told I haven't been doing as much of a lot of stuff as I would like. &nbsp;Work and sleep, coupled with taking care of "A" has taken up a large portion of my time so&nbsp;extracurricular activities have suffered. Blogging was done mostly on the bus with my ipod but I wanted to read more so my blogging has suffered. One other thing I

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Taken a few weeks ago. &nbsp;She is much better at this now...but this is the first time she ever walked with this. Another cute video will be posted tomorrow so tune back in.

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"Car Car" performed by&nbsp;Jeremy Lyons

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I just got a bill from my Frienemy yesterday. I knew it was too good that our insurance paid for ALL of the bills from my wifes c-section, almost 5 days in the hospital (including labor and recovery) and all the care the baby received, who was luckily healthy and only had minor, common newborn issues. So i was pleasantly surprised for 9 months. Until yesterday. the bill in hand says that they

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So, after a few weeks of crawling backwards and working on some other skills 'A' finally thinks the world is ready to see what she is capable of....in addition to being cute! enjoy.

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A few weeks ago I posted that 'A' was almost crawling. Well a few days after that my wife filmed the video below while I was at work. She hasn't made too much progress since so the forward crawling videos don't exist yet. She is starting to pull up though so maybe she will skip the whole crawling phase, who knows? Once I get a video of her pulling up I will post it. Enjoy.

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I am a few weeks behind on my posts. I still have a lot of things to write about but I have been juggling a lot of other things I want to get done, including finishing my father's day gift for my dad, with work and taking care of the baby. Here are some photos of the home made applesauce I made a few weeks ago. Peel and core some apples, slices them in the food processor, boil them and then

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There is nothing more pure than a baby laughing. 'A' is in a good mood a lot but we have only seen her laugh really hard a few times. It is becoming more and more frequent but it is still a treat. Hope it makes you laugh too.

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Last week we were on vacation in Florida with my wife's parents, aunt and uncle, brother, sister in-law and two kids. We took 'A' in the swimming pool and to the ocean for the first time.&nbsp; Here is the video of her in the pool. Enjoy.

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"A" is starting to show a real interest in crawling. You sit her down on the ground and she immediately turns on to her stomach and flails about.Over the last few days the flailing has become a little more organized. Her arms are under her now and she is pushing the front half of her body off the ground. Last week when she tried to pull her legs in to get onto her knees her face went down on

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Recently while I was installing my new Windows 7 bootcamp machine on my MacBook Pro I used a website called Ninite.com to install all of my extra programs. &nbsp;This site has a simple list of all the programs they feel you might need, gets the latest version and bundles them into one installer. &nbsp;Install that one installer and you are done. I used this to install Chrome, Firefox, Skype,

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Yesterday I took a tour of a recyclables sorting facility and I learned a ton of great information. Two things that I took away are: 1) We use, and throw away, a lot of stuff and 2) An hour tour of a sorting facility doesn't make you an expert. Another important lesson was that every sorting facility (and I am guessing processing plant) has different equipment, and therefore different rules

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Wednesday night Armando Galarraga came very close to pitching a perfect game for the Detroit Tigers. For those of you that don't follow baseball, a perfect game is when a pitcher pitches an entire game and no runner ever reaches first base. That means no hits, walks, batters hit by a pitch, batters to reach on a throwing or fielding error, and no third strike that the catcher doesn't catch

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I recently got a new computer at work.&nbsp; It is a MacBook Pro and I am running windows 7 on a Bootcamp partition.&nbsp; The great thing about the new lines of Macs is that you can run Windows on it if you really need to so you are getting 2 computers for the price of one (plus the cost of the Windows operating system). I received my computer and was amazed at how easy it was to get up and

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My sister in-law found this video on line and posted it on her Facebook page.&nbsp; I think it does a great job asking all the questions I would like to ask about Lost (if I had more time).&nbsp; Funny because it’s true.

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We were finally able to watch the last episode of Lost and I feel pretty much the same way I do about every other episode; I have a theory about what I think happened but I really might as well been watching a show in a different language.&nbsp; My silly joke of a theory was not that far off from what I think happened. SPOILER ALERT for those that haven't seen it yet. So, from what I can

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Earlier this week was A's art show and it was awesome. The art work by A and her baby friends was great. My favorite of A's was the blue day. The picture of her making the art are photos of photos that were hanging on the walls along with the art and are also great. I just love to see that smile. The kids in the older rooms had art that was inspired by famous paintings and were displayed along

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Today I got an IM from a colleague that is on vacation right now.&nbsp; I thought for sure she was contacting me about work but actually wanted to know if I would like to join her on a tour of a recyclables sorting facility on next Tuesday.&nbsp; I am very excited about this as I have always been curious about how this works and I already have a some questions&nbsp; for them. &nbsp; I will see if

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Two weeks ago the childcare center that A goes to had a color theme week.&nbsp; Each day the children and babies dressed in the color of the day.&nbsp; There was red, green, orange, blue and purple.&nbsp; The older kids also studied art work from famous artist and then made creations of their own in the style of the famous artists.&nbsp; The babies participated in making art as well and tomorrow

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I'm back. I took the last few days off from the blog because my daughter and wife both has a stomach bug. On Sunday afternoon we decide to get away from the germs and get outside.&nbsp;&nbsp; We went to a park and put A in the swing. Great photos and a video will be up tonight or tomorrow.&nbsp;A has gotten back to her old sleep habits, waking up 3 or 4 times a night so our plans to watch the

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