January 2012
2 posts
Insanity has returned by way of the bedtime ritual and always one child that just will not sleep but prefers to deliver a monolog of the days events interspersed with the occasional performance of the ABC’s.
December 2011
1 post
ReadWriteWeb: Untethered Jailbreak For iOS 5 is... →
May 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
4 posts
September 2010
5 posts
Once Was Enough! →
I’m not sorry I did it, and maybe at some date down the road I’ll try it again, but I feel no hurry to repeat my skydiving experience.
From the point of view of just knowing…
Sydney’s Debut Video →
It took nearly a year for this to see reality, but here it is, Sydney Tomchak’s first video.
This time shot and edited by Brenda, and get this…. it was done entirely on her iPhone! She would…
New Book: Programming in Objective-C 2.0 →
I might be taking a 5 day class at the end of October on iPhone programming, and this book will do a good job getting me ready for the class.
One of the best things about buying Kindle…
Playset, Day 1 →
After my failed attempt at Skydiving, I spent about 3 hours working on the kids new playset.
And after 3 hours, I only have a few more pieces to go!
A Beautiful Day to Fly, But… →
… a bit too windy.
Everything was looking great on the way out today, and our small group was excited. Just walking into the hanger I felt exhilarated and felt like this might be a…
August 2010
2 posts
New Book: Clean →
I started reading a new book this week, called Clean. Find out more by going to Amazon. It’s available in paperback as well as on the Kindle.
A Fading Relic →
The Ford/Wyoming Drive-In opened in 1950 in the heyday of drive-in movie theaters. At it’s peak in 1958, there were around 4000 drive-in’s in the US, many with multiple screens. Today…
March 2008
2 posts
This is my last blog post
Andrew is NOT happy. After thinking about it for several weeks and talking it over with Brenda, I have decided to stop making entries to this blog. I guess the more I think about it, the more I realize the boys are just not all that interesting and who really wants to hear about them anyway. Sure, the grandparents do but we’ve even felt like the grandparents have lost interest. I mean...
February 2008
24 posts
Week 8, The boys are Great!
It has only been 8 weeks but it seems like at least a year. It’s just hard to remember what things were like before they came along. This weekend we had our friend Don over on Saturday and it was his first time meeting the boys. We all just hung out and relaxed with some pizza and beer while playing with them (as much as we could between sleeping and eating). It was a nice relaxing...
Seven Weeks Old
The boys are now 7 weeks old and you can really tell. They’re just so much more mature now, they’re walking and Andrew actually just started learning how to use the computer. OK, maybe not, but they are changing. The best change so far has been that they sleep longer. Five hours is pretty usual now, and 6 has happened a few times. We had one day that Max slept 8 hours but that was...
Going Public
While it’s too cold to go walking around the neighborhood with the boys right now, we decided to take them to Woodfield Mall today and do some indoor walking. It was our first real attempt to take them in public for any length of time. I got the idea after talking to my sister Dawn who has been doing that with her little one John. We ended up being gone for about 4 hours and the boys did...
The Twins Visit Edit Creations
Today the boys took a field trip to the office to meet our friends there. It was really nice to share them with so many people today and I know Brenda really enjoyed getting out of the house! The boys were really good with being passed around to everybody and only got a little cranky towards the end when they got hungry. The whole visit lasted around 2 hours. To see the rest of the photos,...
Welcome Rachel!
I’m very excited to announce we have hired a Nanny to help with the boys! Starting the week of February 18th Rachel will start helping out Brenda 2 days a week. This will give Brenda a little bit of a break and allow her to have just a little more freedom to get things done for herself as well as the boys. This also lays the groundwork for giving her the ability to work on some video...
Thank You Lactation Staff of Central DuPage... →
Late last week after much thought and consideration, Brenda decided to stop breast feeding. It seems like something that is so natural and easy until you have to do it yourself. And doing it for two boys instead of one is no easier and pretty exhausting to say the least. Brenda was using a breast pump that we had rented from the hospital (almost $100 per month) that needed to be returned on...
Five Week Old on Monday
Time is going by fast with these boys already and I can’t express in words how much joy they bring me from just holding them and looking into their eyes. I just can’t get enough of them. Even when I get home at 9pm I can’t wait to hold them and feed them, even if I’m tired. I normally try to take care of them until midnight or 1am so that Brenda can get some solid sleep. ...
January 2008
56 posts
The 1 Month Pediatric Visit
Today the boys had their 1 month visit and all went very well. They checked out great, and both gained plenty of weight in their first 4 weeks here. I could feel a big difference just carrying them from the car! Andrew now weighs 8lbs 9 oz, and Max weighs 7 lbs 11 oz. The doctor was nice and allowed me to do some video recording today (much more then anybody other then a parent would want...
1 Month Old Tomorrow!
It’s been 4 weeks since the boys were born. In a way it seems like we’ve known them forever, and it’s actually hard to remember life without them. Accept for a minor bout with Oral Thrush, they’ve done very well. The last time I took Max in they weighed him, and he’s up to 7.4 lbs already. I’m sure Andrew has gained at least as much given how much heavier he...
