Jun 24 2008
Sean has officially found his feet. He’s been playing with them for a couple days and loves his new “built in” toys. 🙂 Got some pictures of him playing with them on the changing table. Hope to get them up tonight.
Jun 24 2008
Sean had tried rice cereal a few times before his doctor appointment and HATED it (also see: LOATHED, DESPISED, DETESTED). He made such an awful face when offered it, and even started crying when he would see the container of it being pulled out of the cabinet! 🙂
We did buy some oatmeal yesterday and let him try that. He still hasn’t gotten the skill of swallowing it, he just pushes it around in his mouth for awhile. I tried feeding him some before bathtime last night and he didn’t make an awful face, but wasn’t swallowing it either. When I had him layed on the counter undressing him, I tried a little bit more, and he did well with it. I think laying down helped to get it into the back of his mouth and he was able to figure out how to swallow it. Must be hard to figure out swallowing stuff other than milk for the first time ever! Anyway, we got a cute short video of him eating, he was even making the “MMM!” sound loudly and kicking his feet while eating. I’ll try to get it posted tonight.
Tried to feed him a little more this morning. I didn’t get a bad face, but he wasn’t really feeling it this morning. Will try again tonight. Can’t wait until he actually starts eating more of it. Right now it’s just 3-4 baby spoonulls per session. We’ll keep trying!
Jun 23 2008
Sean had his 4 month checkup today. He got another round of shots/vaccines, and this time did surprisingly well with the shots! He only cried for about 15 seconds total…thanks to a very speedy and nice nurse/shotgiver 🙂
He now weighs in at 15lb 11oz. Since he’s eating so much now and has doubled his birth weight, they said he could start rice cereal or oatmeal. How exciting! We’ll buy and try out some oatmeal tomorrow and see how it goes!
They were also very impressed with his “skills” (standing, rolling over, talking, manipulating objects, etc). Our little boy genius!
Jun 23 2008
I recently added some new toys to my geeky collection. Back in October, Dmoney hooked me up with a new phone – the HTC 6700 for SprintPCS. I LOVED this phone, I actually used the mobile Word/Excel frequently, it was excellent for text messaging, was convenient to have a decent camera around, etc. Last week, the keyboard started to go out – requiring pretty excessive pressing to get things like the space bar and lower qwerty keys to work. It was also starting to lock up once in a while and when a reminder popped up, it immediately went away so I couldn’t disable, snooze, etc.
Anyway, our SprintPCs contract expired almost a year ago, so we decided to shop around to see what was available. After visiting a bunch of websites and spending some time in the CinciBell store, we determined our current plan with Sprint simply rocks and couldn’t find anyone to even match it. Long story short, Emily and I both got new phones yesterday. She got a new Katana and I got the HTC Mogul (the 6800). The Mogul is faster and runs Windows Mobile 6. Love the phone. Couple pics I stole from the net:
Next, I built a new computer. My previous PC was a Gateway we bought at Best Buy almost three years ago – AMD dual core 3800+ with (upgraded) 3GB RAM and one XFX 8800 GT 512mb video card.
Instead of store bought, I decided to go back to my old hobby and build one. I went to my old favorite, Newegg.com to do the shopping. I went with:
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 Yorkfield 2.66GHz, 12MB Cache
Motherboard: XFX MB-N780-ISH9 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI
CPU Cooler: ASUS V-60 92mm Vapo Bearing
RAM: mushkin 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066
Video: XFX PVT88PYDE4 GeForce 8800GT Extreme 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 – Added this to run in SLi
Case: Cooler Master Cosmos 1000
Power Supply: ZALMAN ZM750-HP Continuous 750W Modular LED Heatpipe-Cooled SLI Power Supply
This is by far the highest class machine I have ever built. I ran the FutureMark 3dMark06 on both my old computer and new computer and was pretty amazed. The old PC was running Vista Ultimate 32 bit and the new PC is running Windows XP Pro 64bit (to utilize all 4GB ram). 3Dmark on the old PC hit 3906 marks. The new PC was around 14,567 marks!! I may go to Vista 64Bit, but wasn’t really impressed with Vista enough for the 1.5 years or so I ran it. The changes to the control panel and Windows Explorer were enough to put me off. I never ran into stability or driver issues when using Vista, even with my printers.
Jun 21 2008
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Cary and Jyll Hearn are now blogging! Cary was Brian’s Best Man at his wedding (and vice versa). They recently asked me to set a blog up for them – and eventually a gallery when i get a spare few minutes. Welcome to the blogosphere guys!
Jun 21 2008
Jun 20 2008
So I have to say, we have made the cutest kid ever. Check out new pictures of his red racecar walker, and some tummy time below:
Jun 19 2008
Sean slept through the night last night for the first time!! He went to bed around 8pm, and slept until 6:30am! I actually woke up around 4:00am when he usually gets up, and had a hard time falling back to sleep because I was saying to myself “I know he’s going to wake up any minute, so I’ll just lay here.” I finally fell back asleep and didn’t hear him until 6:30! Good boy! He’s so big *sheds a tear*
Jun 18 2008
Sean has slept really well the last two nights. He went to bed around 7:30-8:00p both nights, and woke up at his usual 4:00am-ish for a bottle, then slept until 8:00am! I actually had to wake him up this morning (which he was pretty grumpy about) at 8:00 so I could leave for work. I really hope that this continues…it’d be so nice to sleep in until 8 on the weekends!! He usually gets up around 6-6:30am daily, so this is an unbelievable change! 🙂
Jun 16 2008
We started out on Saturday by attending a musical that Emily’s cousin Wes was in. It was a small theatre group introducing a new Christian musical. We enjoyed it. Sean enjoyed his afternoon with his Auntie Gamma (Emily’s Aunt Laurie).
Emily made us a reservation at John Philip’s in Crestview Hills. Its one of my new favorite restaraunts. The menu is small (wine list huge), but the selection of appetizers and entree’s is not missing anything. I went with the Filet (with a side of mushroom bourdalaise sauce) and Emily got the prime rib. Having a restaraunt of this nature makes me feel we don’t need to drive down to the waterfront anymore! The service is great as well. Our waiter was never overbearing and even remembered the last time we came in (and he wasn’t even our waiter that time!).
Ashley kept an ear out for Sean while we were out to eat – Thanks again Ash! Another advantage of the colony! Emily and I finished up the night watching the movie Jumper – although she didn’t make it through and had to finish it on Sunday. I don’t know why that movie got such a bad review when it was in theatre’s, as we both enjoyed it. Def. a renter and not a buyer though.
On Sunday, Emily, Sean, and I went to the Newport Aquarium. We got the idea a few weeks back when we visited a Petsmart store. He just stared with great awe into the little aquariums there.
