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Jan 30

To a child love is spelled T-I-M-E

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An old man opened his journal and his eyes fell upon an inscription that stood out because it was so brief in comparison to other days. In his own neat handwriting were the words:

Wasted the whole day fishing with my son. Didn’t catch a thing.

With a deep sigh and a shaking hand, he took his sons journal and found the boy’s entry for the same day, June 4. Large scrawling letters, pressed deeply into the paper, read:

Went fishing with my dad. Best day of my life.

Jul 05

the 4th 2009

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Yesterday was awesome. We all went to Dairy Queen for lunch and let Keenan eat his own ice cream which went well, hardly any mess. On the way back we found another shortcut and stopped to pick up Julies’ new bike. She was pretty excited as there has been some jealousy when Keenan and I take off for a ride. So after Keenans nap we all hopped on our bikes and took off down the Guadalupe River Trail.

We had already decided that Keenan would be up with us for fireworks and we managed to keep him awake long enough for him to head up to the rooftop with us to see some sparks( actually he calls them spots ). He was a wreck by the time they were all finished. I was able to see at least a half dozen different shows in progress. Nothing was close enough to be overhead but it was still cool to see a bunch of different displays. We finally got him down around 10:15 which I think is the latest he has been up to date, shy of being sick.

Andrea came over to hang with us and see some spots as well. After the show we ordered some pizza and had a few drinks on the porch and talked. Eventually we realized it was after midnight and called it a day. Time flies…

Jun 08

No more crib

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Last night was Keenan’s first night out of his crib. It was also the first night in over 2 weeks that he hasn’t been up several times during the night crying. We decided to take down the walls after noticing several markers like telling us he was ready to go ‘night night’ and laying down on his own. Added benefit… he slept in an hour later and didn’t cry this morning. We are also going to let him determine if he wants to take a day nap by leaving him gated in his room during his normal naptime. We’ll see how that goes today.

May 30

Past SJC Airport

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Well we made it past the airport today heading north on the Guadalupe River Trail. It was such a trek we ended up having to take the rail back home. We stopped off at IHOP on the way back and got some crepes. Mmmm Keenan’s favorite.

May 24

Guadalupe bike trail

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Well the first run at the trail with Keenan went great. We recently got a bike from some friends of ours. Keenan then quickly decided that he needed to go on some bike rides so we went out and bought a trailer for him so he could tag along. He LOVES it.

The Guadalupe River Trail is within 2 blocks of our place and provides almost 15 miles of trails for us to ride on. Couldn’t be a more perfect setup.

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Apr 08

Church

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Well after quite awhile we think we might have found a church we are comfortable with and which follows our beliefs and meets our doctrinal requirements. The church is very beautiful and the people are quite realistic, none of that fake “it’s Sunday so I am at church now, look how good I am” mumbo-jumbo. The minister is a Woman who I’m pretty sure was some sort of Director in the cooperate world before her calling based on her communication skills and vocabulary. She is one of the top 5 ministers I have ever had the pleasure to hear speak and unbelievably spot-on when it comes to our mindset. This is the most relaxed and relieved I have been at a church in a loooong time.
If you want to check out their specs visit them here http://www.wvpc.org

Apr 08

PeePee

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Keenan is on the potty training wagon now. A couple days ago(Sunday) he said “peepee”, ran to his bathroom door, pulled down his pants, starting knocking on the door. I helped him out from there but he stood on his stool and pretty much knew what to do(lead by example). Since then he has done this about half-a-dozen times. We are very excited !

We are taking this lightly though. We have no expectations with him right now. He is having fun with it and wants to do it so we are helping him. We decided not to go the schedule route since statistically that has bad results. As it turns out we didn’t have to do anything at all, he told us when he was ready.