Happy Birthday Jayden!

 

Click to play: http://tedj.us/jaydengame/

New Place to live

Update on our housing situation:
We didn’t end up buying the gorgeous condo from the last post after all, it was just too far away.  Instead we got an apartment right across the street from Eric’s building!  It takes him pretty much no time at all to walk to work.  Daniel and I especially like this apartment because Eric can come home for lunch EVERY day!!!  You can see our apartment on the right in the picture below and the building Eric works in is on the left…pretty sweet commute huh?

Here’s a video tour of our new place. (Eric chose the music to add a little dramatic effect)

Today Daniel found his new favorite food! Lisa’s Chili! It was a bit surprising because it was kind of spicy, but he just couldn’t get enough. Here is a picture:

Walking, Talking and Having Fun

Daniel’s been learning all sorts of new tricks!  Finally, the proof you’ve all been waiting for, Daniel can walk!  He’s been walking ever since we moved to Washington, he thinks he’s quite the expert.  Also ,he’s learned to open his treat container, reach in and feed himself.  We are now confident he can survive in the wild on his own.

Daniel walking and having fun with his Daddy

Daniel also learned a new word!  He’s been saying “mama” and “dada” for a while and now he says “Yuck!”  Last week Eric and I both had colds so there were tissues all over the house.  Daniel decided he wanted to play with a used tissue and whenever he touched it we’d take it away and say Yuck!  Now he thinks crumpled tissues are Yuck!  He also calls the cat yuck…

Sometimes in order to get Daniel to eat we turn on the webcam and let him watch himself.  He likes to wave to the screen and laugh at the camera’s special effects.

Tedj.us

Last November Shantell and I had the idea to consolidate all the family blogs, photo galleries, and sites together into one website side-bar. We’ve been using it for a while as our homepage and and decided to share it with the rest of  the family.

Here’s the nice short url: http://tedj.us

Enjoy!

And let us know if you want us to add any sites/blogs to it!

Daniel Walking and House Hunting

Daniel put on a great performance for us last weekend.  Up till a week ago Daniel had hardly managed 2 steps in a row but all of the sudden (inspired perhaps by the presence of his Aunts, Grandma and Great Grandparents) he started walking all over the place!  He took at least 11 steps in a row!  We didn’t have our video camera with us but we got a couple of cute videos with Eric’s cell phone.

Here is a video tour of our future condo!  We’ll post better pictures once we move in which should be this Wednesday :) It is by far the best place we found for the price. Tragically it’s at least 15-25 minutes away from Eric’s work so he won’t be able to come home for lunch :/ Other than that it’s the perfect place.  It even has built in bookshelves!

Kindoggle

A few weeks ago Shantell really wanted to play Boggle. Unfortunately, we didn’t have the game. So I did what any good CS major would do… I decided to program a version!

I had just gotten a Kindle for my Birthday, so I decided I would attempt to make it work on that. I did the programming and Shantell did the graphics. I think it turned out pretty nice.

The good news is we made it a Web Game so it works on all computers.

Try it out here!

Deductive Reasoning

So tonight we had Julie and Ryan over for dinner. We made BBQ Pulled-Pork sandwiches and Julie and Ryan brought over some pasta salad. It was delicious. After dinner we all ate cupcakes and played Harry Potter clue. After the game we some how got on the topic of deductive reasoning puzzles... After a brief search online we were able to find one and then proceeded to sit there and do one. It was way fun. After they left, Shantell and I decided to try to make one... And here it is!

Description: Each student belongs to a different Hogwarts house, has a different subject they are the best at, and is in a different year (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th). Match up each student with their house, best subject, and year.

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1. The student in Hufflepuff had to get help from a younger student in Gryffindor on her Defense against the Dark arts homework.

2. The Ravenclaw student needs to study more in order to her pass charms class

3. The Slytherin student is one year younger than Ryan

4. Ever since being sorted a few weeks back, Shantell has wished she could have been in Slytherin

5. The second year student is embarrassed to admit that their best subject is Muggle Studies.

You can email us the solution and we'll let you know if it is right. Have fun!