Giving Thanks
Today Professor X is 16 months old. Last year at Thanksgiving he had a little taste of turkey and sweet potatoes (his favorite food on the planet at the time, likely because the America's Test Kitchen recipe we make for them is delicious and buttery). This year he is a fully functioning eating machine--thanks to more or less constant teething for the past 10 months--, so I suspect he will tuck in with his usual gusto. His breakfasts have graduated from banana plus maybe a muffin to also eating (through his insistence) one of our protein bars. He only eats about a 1/3rd of one, and then he wants us to store the rest in a Ziplock for the next day.
He's been going to daycare for the past few months as DrB got a fellowship at the University of Washington, and after a few weeks of transition he's doing pretty well there. Frankly he was getting bored at home with his toys and playing with just us, so the daycare has been great for giving him plenty of "macaroni art" time. Plus, he's excited to see his toys again on the weekend and in the evenings.
The phonemes are coming along, and he's even used a couple of proto-words like "brother" and "pop" (i.e. Otter Pops). Lately he's been working on some glottal sounds. Anyhow, enough of the baby obsession. He's doing well, and he's frickin' awesome. Nuff said.
Work is going well, although it's the usual Microsoft formula of big ambitious project, too few people to do it, and too little time. Still, it's challenging and I'm getting a chance to focus more on graphics again. I even have some semi-official 20% projects that are going pretty well and having a growing following (DirectXTK and DirectXTex on the Microsoft official open source community project site).
We are making progress on our big house renovation. We've signed a letter of intent, Todd is progressing on the design, and we've been doing a lot of the preliminary legwork (surveys, etc.). It's going to be a crap ton of money, but it will be great to have more space.
The Leaf rocks. It's been excellent to not care about the price of gas for our daily commute. We all commute as a family most days, which provides a nice offset for the amount of flying we have to do to see Rhys.
Well, it's off to some cooking. We are doing a 'potluck' Thanksgiving again this year and we are signed up for the turkey, dressing, rolls, and a couple of pies (pies are already done).
Happy Thanksgiving to my US peeps!
He's been going to daycare for the past few months as DrB got a fellowship at the University of Washington, and after a few weeks of transition he's doing pretty well there. Frankly he was getting bored at home with his toys and playing with just us, so the daycare has been great for giving him plenty of "macaroni art" time. Plus, he's excited to see his toys again on the weekend and in the evenings.
The phonemes are coming along, and he's even used a couple of proto-words like "brother" and "pop" (i.e. Otter Pops). Lately he's been working on some glottal sounds. Anyhow, enough of the baby obsession. He's doing well, and he's frickin' awesome. Nuff said.
Work is going well, although it's the usual Microsoft formula of big ambitious project, too few people to do it, and too little time. Still, it's challenging and I'm getting a chance to focus more on graphics again. I even have some semi-official 20% projects that are going pretty well and having a growing following (DirectXTK and DirectXTex on the Microsoft official open source community project site).
We are making progress on our big house renovation. We've signed a letter of intent, Todd is progressing on the design, and we've been doing a lot of the preliminary legwork (surveys, etc.). It's going to be a crap ton of money, but it will be great to have more space.
The Leaf rocks. It's been excellent to not care about the price of gas for our daily commute. We all commute as a family most days, which provides a nice offset for the amount of flying we have to do to see Rhys.
Well, it's off to some cooking. We are doing a 'potluck' Thanksgiving again this year and we are signed up for the turkey, dressing, rolls, and a couple of pies (pies are already done).
Happy Thanksgiving to my US peeps!