Wed, 07 Sep 2005

Yahoo! : Becca turns 1, School Starts and Camp Okizu
Becca is now 1 year old. She had a nice party here at the house, ate lots of cake, and generally was the life of the party. All the cousins were here (and the auntie's and uncles!), along with grandparents. She sure loved that cake. She's been crawling for a while now, and she's gonna walk pretty soon. Her 1 year checkup showed her to be very average in size... right at the 50% mark in height and weight. She's getting big, but she's still our little baby.

Nate started kindergarten last week. He's now in elementary school. What a big guy. He seems to like it so far. He's only missed one day so far, for a scheduled spinal tap w/ chemo. Back in the end of July, beginning of August, he had 2 weeks off chemo because he was neutropenic. His protocol says to drop the Septra, so we have. Now, he get's a once-a-month breathing treatment at the hospital with pentamidine, instead of the Septra. It's kind of nice we don't have to remember to give him the Septra 3 days a week. Hopefully his counts will stay up now. He has less than a year to go!

Andrew started pre-school this last week. He's in a 2's class, and a parent has to work in the classroom. He only goes once a week, but he'll have a great time. His very nice teacher is no stranger, as she has a son in Nate's kindergarten class.

We spent the Labor Day weekend up at Camp Okizu. What a great bunch of people they are. The counselors are all great with the kids. We left Becca w/ Nana and Papa, so we didn't have to worry about her. The boys went canoeing, did some archery, the ropes course, games and lots of carpetball. It was a lot of fun to watch Nate go down the zip line on the ropes course, with no fear. And then we were amazed that Andrew did it also, all by himself. Snug in his harness, he sailed across the creek hanging from the cable. How's that for a 2 year old!

And finally, I've started a new job. I'm the engineering manager for the Yahoo! Avatars team. I know, I know... I sold out. A management job. What a waste of a good engineer, or something like that. If you use instant messenger, please use Yahoo! IM. If you use it, create an avatar. You can go to the Yahoo! Avatars page .

- Greg


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