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 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!
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.
Daniel’s first solid meal. Rice Cereal! He didn’t care too much for it in this picture, but he has since started liking it more
Poor Kid. He may not mind the Bear Ear Hat now… but they will make great blackmail pictures when he gets older.
At a park in Washington. Shantell was teaching Daniel about leaves. Unfortunately all Daniel wanted to do was eat it.
He also wanted to eat Mommy’s Sleeve
But Mommy didn’t mind
Daddy then taught Daniel about climbing trees
He wasn’t even a bit scared
Us in the car getting ready to return back to Utah. As you can tell Shantell had her hands full.
Daniel at Great-Grandma’s house playing with his Mommy and Grandma. (Although it may look like we chopped Daniel in half to get this picture, I promise we didn’t)
The first week we were back there was a thunder storm. So we decided to stay home and make a huge tent in the living room. It was awesome! It had both couches and the TV in it.
As you can tell we had a lot of fun.
We also had fun with Daniel’s hair one day after giving him a bath. We wanted to see what he looked like with curly hair. What do you think?
Daniel learned a new trick today! While Mommy was making sandwiches for lunch, Daniel decided that he wanted a toy. Instead of complaining, he got up on his elbows and toes and found one himself. He crawled all the way (about 2.5 feet) to his ball! Daniel's Daddy was lucky enough to witness this momentous occasion and promptly called Mommy over just in time to see him change directions and go for the Nintendo!
After 30 minutes of coaxing, we finally were able to get him to do it again on camera. Here is the video!
It is my fear that 5 years from now, on Daniel’s first day of Kindergarten, his teacher will ask him his name and he will excitedly reply “My name is Zoo-Zoo!”
Ever since Daniel was born, Shantell has insisted on calling Daniel by some nickname or another. Seriously, I could understand nicknames such as “Dan” or “Danny” or maybe even “Dan-Dan”… but I swear, most of the nicknames she calls him must be the first words that pop into her head.
I should have seen it coming though… Our poor cat Fiero has had over a dozen nicknames throughout his life (“Bayshee" seems to have stuck the best). Her littlest sister Sala has several nicknames also (“Skippy”, “Skooky”, etc..). Therefore, it is my theory that it must be some loving motherly urge within Shantell to call those she looks after silly nicknames.
Here is a list of some of the names our son has had over his short 5 months of life: (These are just the list of the ones that Shantell has used at least 10 times)
Yes, she actually does use all of those. However, she has began to settle on using “Zoo-Zoo” the most. A few weeks back she even prayed that “Zoo-Zoo would sleep well tonight.” Afterward we joked that some guy in Africa was going to have the best rest of his life that night.
I try to call him Daniel as much as I can (Either that our “Daniel-Son” or “Daniel-Boon”). But, I too find myself using Shantell’s nicknames…
…our poor son will be so confused when he starts to learn to talk.
