It appears that I haven't posted anything in seven months. If you know me you also know this is par for the course. I have been uploading and editing movies but for some reason I haven't thrown them all together in a blog post. Oh well.
Life is pretty good at the moment. Stone is talking up a storm. I was even able to have a "conversation" with him on the phone this week. It mainly involved him repeating the last word I said or saying the names of family members but he understands the protocol (wait for the other person to finish before you speak). Glen has been accepted into grad school in SF. Hooray! We are going to move at the end of the year to somewhere between Mountain View and the city. It will be nice to be closer to our core group of friends but I'm going to miss biking into work. We still have our house in Atlanta but the renters stopped paying rent. I'm learning about the joys of remote home ownership. For the record: there is no joy in it. Work for me has been awesome. I'm staying busy and learning new things everyday.
I broke down and purchased a DSLR. Stone will only be a child once so I might as well get a couple decent embarrassing pictures of him. It has a video feature but it's not nearly as convent as using my phone. I obviously need to get an eyefi card so it just magically dumps the pictures and video when I'm at home. One day I'll get around to setting that up. Until then you can entertain yourself with these videos. :-)
I was teaching stone how video cameras worked by using the phone's front facing camera. To this day he can't stop laughing when he sees this video.
Stone and Hanna (cousin) play in the pool at my parents place.
We took Stone to the Children's Discovery museum in San Jose. He LOVED it. We need to get an annual pass so he can get a healthy does of Science!
I had a ton of videos with Stone dancing and making music over the past year. He is the evolution of Stone's groove. Unfortunately he appears to be related to his father. If you don't feel like watching the whole thing be sure to watch the last ten seconds of this one.
Here is a typical diner with Stone complete with singing and a "talk to the hand" gesture.
Stone shares the same birthday as our good friend Griffin so we have a joint birthday party. Unlike last year, Stone knew what the candles were for this time around.
Chase is living in SF for a bit so we get to hang out with him on the weekend. On a weekend in February we decided it was time to take Stone rock climbing. It took him a little while to warm up to it but now he loves it.
