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Happy Birthday Drew

Posted by on December 18, 2007 Comments Off

Drew is 4 today. You still have time to ship things FedEx same day.

Drew’s ears are like tubes

Posted by on December 13, 2007 1 comment

Hello friends and family!

Good news. The surgery is done and went very well. The tubes are in
place and everything looked great to the doctor. He said he drained a
lot of fluid out of Andrew’s left ear. Thanks much for all your
prayers. He was calm and composed the whole time. I’m thankful that
everything went so smoothly.

Thanks for your e-mails and praying for us. We appreciate all of you!

with love,

Camille, for all of us.

Drew’s Ears

Posted by on December 11, 2007 Comments Off

Wanted to write a quick note asking you to pray for Drew this Thursday. It’s been a long roundabout story, but the short is that he is scheduled for (minor) outpatient surgery this Thursday AM. The ENT doctor (ears, nose, throat) we saw yesterday diagnosed Drew with some chronic fluid in his left ear. They want to insert tubes into both ears to equalize pressure and drain the fluid in his left ear. It’s a pretty standard procedure which should only take 15-20 minutes to complete. But he will have to be under general anesthesia.

Please pray that the doctors will be able to successfully insert the tubes and that Drew will not experience any complications during or after the procedure. Pray that Andrew will not be frightened by all that is happening. He gets a very serious look on his face as I describe what will happen on Thursday. It is a quick turnaround (three days) from when we saw the ENT until the surgery, so I don’t feel like I have had a lot of time to prepare him and ease him into the prospect of the surgery. But I’ve explained that the doctors will help fix his ears so that he can hear better and speak more clearly. He seems to like that idea.

We are optimistic as the doctor was able to schedule us so quickly and everything literally fell into place. It really felt like God opened these doors for Andrew to be seen, evaluated and diagnosed within a week by multiple doctors and educators. We have been concerned with his language delay and are hopeful that this procedure will alleviate some of the difficulty he has had in speaking clearly.

Thanks for praying for us! We’ll keep you posted on how things turn out.

Time is Time

Posted by on November 27, 2007 Comments Off

I just did a quick calculation. Even though we moved further from my office, I am saving about 20 minutes per week in transit time from being on a better bus route. That amounts to 80 hours saved each year. I cannot complain!

Fortress of Playitude

Posted by on November 24, 2007 Comments Off

After assembling Anne’s new bed I had two rather large boxes. Hmm, what to do with two large boxes. A fortress of course! But that took only one box. A tunnel with portcullis! Still 1/2 a box left… Ok, knee padding in the tunnel.

  • one princess bed for $20 (original price $250)
  • extra boxes $0
  • one set of MrMcGroovy’s rivets $30
  • no cuts from the boxcutter $major medical bill
  • two ecstatic kids, priceless

New Home

Posted by on November 18, 2007 Comments Off

Well, everything went pretty smoothly. We moved in a couple weeks ago to our new townhouse. 2 weeks ago we painted the kids rooms and let them air out. Anne’s is now a very pretty light purple color. Drew’s is a good solid blue. They both are very excited about having their own rooms. We also managed to get the tail end of the Pier-1 Kids closing sales and got some head/foot boards for the kids at over 90% off. Total score. Hopefully I’ll be able to put them together in the next couple weeks. Camille also convinced me to go to Ikea. Neither of us had ever been and, man, what a place. They certainly do not make it easy to exit! Thankfully they have a child care place so the kids were not utterly bored. It reminded us of the home store version of Wegmans.

Master Wilson

Posted by on July 7, 2007 Comments Off

Some of you know that I have had a long ordeal with respect to my graduate degree. From switching from the PhD to a Masters, being tasked with finishing a 2 year project in under 9 months, having conditions placed upon obtaining my actual degree, then waiting anxiously eight months for confirmation that I had satisfied those conditions.

Well, at 8:24pm on July 3rd, the graduate school was finally told that I had satisfied those conditions and that I could receive my degree. This saga seems to finally be almost over.

Spanish Nights

Posted by on June 27, 2007 Comments Off

Here are some memorable quotes by Anne. You have to imagine them in her cute, innocent voice.

After Eugene listed off the abundance of what he ate the previous night, Anne says, “next time, eat less.”

After exiting the Sangrada Familia (the famous one that is still under construction) Anne blurts out “that church needs surgery”.

Finally, with respect to eating habits, Anne wisely acknowledges that “If you have icecream every night it is not good for you. It has to go in a pattern: night, no night, night, no night, icecream, no icecream”.

We won the lottery!

Posted by on May 31, 2007 Comments Off

Well, not quite, but it feels like it.

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Big Spring Update

Posted by on May 25, 2007 Comments Off

Here is the run down for the past couple months:

  • Anne graduated from Preschool today. She had two excellent teachers this year and is sad to be done. Makes me wonder if she will be like Jason in Foxtrot. She was very beautiful in the dress her Grandma got her.

  • We have been house hunting and found what we hope will be our next accommodations. We put in an offer which was accepted, but contingent on the sellers closing on another house. It has been a while since we bought a house, but amazingly enough, I think the process is even longer in Maryland compared to NewYork.

  • Anne got pneumonia today. Very sad. So she will be taking antibiotics for a little while. No clue where she got it from and we hope that no other kids get/got it.

  • I started another blog revolving around my coding for the MMORPG I play. Knowing me, I will probably update that one more than this..

  • We are getting plugged into our church. I have been periodically helping lead the home group we go to. We love our home group, and we have felt warmly accepted into the community. I managed to get out skiing once with some of them. I think I will miss winter down here.

  • Work continues to go well. Just hired someone to work under me and in the process of hiring another (in case anyone wants to send me a resume). I am really enjoying the Zend Framework but unfortunately I had to drop the smarty templates as they were killing the speed. Our hardware has killer I/O but awful CPU speed.

  • On my daily commute I have been reading a very good book: As For Me and My House. I wish I had read it while in grad school. I know it would have helped me better understand myself and the stresses I place upon Camille. Better late than never. It is written in a very poetic style (not my style) which took a bit to get used to. While at home, I have been reading Fit Bodies Fat Minds. Another highly recommended read. It is not poetic and more my reading style.

  • We have not gone to the movies in a while now. I think the last movie we saw was Children of Men. We did rent some interesting films though. An Inconvenient Truth, Who Killed the Electric Car, and Thank You For Smoking. They raise interesting questions, especially for a stats minded person like myself. The first 2 are more of the documentary type. The last one can get you thinking about how media and sophistry pervade and sway our culture.

So, hopefully Camille will post here soon to give everyone an update on some of the other important things going on in our lives.