Today I put Brianna on the potty just for fun, to see how she would like it, and guess what happened? She actually went pee in it! I’m so excited!
I think before she gets potty trained, though, her next big step will be walking. 
Archive for January, 2010
potty party
30
Jan
Silas turns three!
28
Jan
We celebrated Silas’ 3rd birthday earlier this month, but my camera was still in Canada, so we took video using our hi8 video camera. Now that I know how to transfer hi8 onto my computer, I can show you some of the footage!
Happy Birthday, Silas! You’re my big boy, my sweetheart, my buddy, and I love you so much. xoxo
brown beats coakley in mass.
22
Jan
A republican beat a democrat! In Massachusetts! The bluest of the blue states! Ted “Chapaquitic” Kennedy’s senate seat! After we were told that the republicans were done! Finished! A regional, southern, white relic of the past!
With an upcoming 2010 congressional election, democrats are running like Forrest Gump away from unpopular legislation as the blast wave from this political bomb rocks the blue dogs and the hardened liberals alike. No seat is “safe.”
But… what of the Obama agenda? Of health care destruction reform? Of cap-and-trade environmental boondoggle legislation? Of immigration shamnesty?
I think this video sums it up for we conservatives:
video-editing fun!
19
Jan
I used my new video-editing software to put together a little video from our Christmas trip to Edmonton. I took so much video while there, so I decided to split it up into separate categories. This first video features some of the food we made and ate at Mom and Dad’s house.
Hope you enjoy it!
10th Wedding Anniversary
16
Jan
Yesterday was mine and Brian’s 10th Anniversary!!! It’s hard to believe we’ve been married ten years. It seems like such a long time, but it has flown by. Yesterday evening we ate out at El Campesino, a Mexican restaurant.
We’re thinking of going on a mini vacation without the kids, in honor of our 10th anniversary, but that won’t be till I’m done nursing Brianna (which will probably be this month), and when my parents come visit, so they can watch the kids. So our mini vacation won’t be for a few months, but that’s okay, because it’s nicer to take a vacation when the weather is nicer anyway.
By the way, I didn’t blog about this, but Silas turned 3 years old a few days ago. I forgot my camera in Edmonton, so I couldn’t take any pics, but I did get a video with my video camera. I just have to figure out how to transfer it onto my computer. I think I need a fire wire or something.
I should be getting my camera in the mail any day now. Well, that’s it for now!
war on terror vs. war on man-made-global-warming
08
Jan
Sometimes I wonder which one is more futile, the war on terror or the war on CO2.
Despite our government’s best efforts on both fronts, neither seems to be yielding great results. Man-made global warming is a hoax, so you can’t fight it at all. And hating the USA is the world’s favorite sport, with the most enthusiastic fans obviously coming from the middle east. Yet somehow, we seem to be equally (un)successful in combating either.
Both employ ridiculously ineffective measures. On the global-warming front, you have cap-and-trade, laughably low-quality compact fluorescent light bulbs, and a President who flies to Copenhagen so the Indians and Chinese won’t have to laugh at him over the phone. What have we succeeded in? Scaring the gullible with sappy videos of drowning polar bears.
In our struggle against crazy muslim fundamentalists terrorists: The new hour-long pat-down exercise Sue, Silas, Brianna and I endured to be allowed to return to our country wouldn’t have stopped the Nigerian terrorist who tried to blow up that plane Christmas day (henceforth referred to as The Fruit-of-the-Boom Bomber… thanks Rush).
I seriously doubt these space-age near-pornographic full-body-scanners they’re going to install at airports will stop the future terrorists, who will simply find more creative (and possibly unpleasant) compartments in which to hide the tools of their trade. All we seem to have been successful at is giving those bored-looking airport security guards an embarrassing new toy, and making hour-and-a-half late plane departures the status quo.
Maybe we’re doing better than the media lets on at stopping terrorists. Maybe the government can’t let us know every time they catch one of these demon-inspired lunatics for security reasons. All I know is that, from where I stand, we seem to be about as effective at stopping terrorists from attempting to down planes as the hippies are at stopping the sun from doing its job keeping me toasty.
I see only three solutions:
1.The government needs to be more effecive in communicating how often we successfully stop terrorist activities.
2.The government needs to take off the kid gloves and use more effective measure to stop them, even if it includes the uncomfortable reality of profiling. Lives are at stake.
3.We just let Al Gore figure it all out.
ice skating
04
Jan
We are back from our trip to Canada as of January 1st! I just copied my pics and video from our trip onto my hard drive, so I will be making a video comprised of clips and highlights of the trip. But for now, here’s a couple pics of us skating at Millennium Place in Edmonton.
Brian, Silas and I skating. Brianna slept the whole time.
Dad teaching Silas to skate. Instead of skates, Silas wore blades that attached to his boots, and instead of 1 blade on each foot, there’s 2 on each foot, so it’s easier to balance for kids that are learning.
