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Time Flies…

I know the saying is usually “Time flies when you are having fun” but I can safely say, time just flies. It seems like just yesterday I stared my new job at Disney as a Contractor. Well 9 months later, and almost no blog posts, on either my blog or this blog, and I have managed to get a “cast” position, and helped launch a new website. Hopefully things will start to slow down at work now so I can get back into a normal routine.

Enough about me, I am sure you are all much more interested in the little guy, and my beautiful wife. Well for starters you should go to the the flickr photo page, because I have finally given up on tagging and titling all my images, and just uploaded them into photo sets for organization. So there is a whole slew of new images.

Beyond that here is the 9 month recap….

1. I got a new job
2. Jeni became Team leader
3. Brendan started speech therapy
4. Brendan learned how to say “No Daaaaaadddddyyyyyyy!”
5. Daniel learned how not to laugh at “No Daaaaadddddyyyyyyyy!”
6. We dressed Brendan up as Super Mario for Halloween
7. Brendan now has favorite things: Little Einstines, Choo Choos, Imagination Movies, and Mickey Mouse
8. Brendan turned 2
9. Kye-lynn turned 3
10. Kye-lynn got a hot spot on her face
10. Kye-lynn is teaching us that we need to spend more time with her, by running away every chance she gets.
11. Brendan has gone to Disneyworld at least 3 times now, and loves it
12. Daniel got hired full-time
13. Daniel learned what it means to work too much
14. Jeni learned what it means to be a single mother because Daniel was working so much
15. Jeni has a new Baby Sister and a New Mother-in-law
16. Daniel stopped reading his RSS Feeds (need to figure out a better way)

And one that doesn’t belong in a list is the sad one. For those of you who don’t already know this, Our family was tested with the tragedy of a miscarriage. Anyone who has been through this knows what a hard thing this is to accept, but we know there is a reason for everything. Or to put it another way, God knows what he is doing. While this has been emotionally challenging for us to move past, I promise there are still plans to add more rooplets to the family.

So the year is 2009, and it is time to reset our habits. I look forward to seeing things slow down at work, so I can start spending more time at home, and documenting our life on the blog. I hope everyone has had a Great holiday season, and a Happy New Year!

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Mom this is so embarassing




Mom this is so embarassing

Originally uploaded by daniel.roop.

So I finally got around to uploading the rest of the pictures that were on our camera, so be sure to go to the photo gallery and see all the new stuff.

A lot of neat stuff has been going on lately. Jeni is done with and enjoying every minute of it. At least for now, I am sure she will begin calling me 5 times a day as she runs out of stuff to do ;-). Also two days a week she has got to spend some time with our niece, Aeisha, to help her get ready for the 1st grade next year!

I finally got my promotion I have been hoping for. I am now a Senior Developer which makes me sound important. But all it means is I now have to be on call every other month, and I get to torment, I mean train, new people.

Brendan has been growing like crazy. He is gooing and gagaing but no consonants yet. We have two teeth finally poking through. Wow was that fun. He went from quite lovable Brendan to crying machine as soon as he got tired. It was amazing, but over all I think he dealt with his first two teeth quite well, and I am very proud of him.

Two days ago he had his 6 month checkup and the doctor says he looks healthy, and we should try feeding him more baby food. This is easier said than done, so far Brendan has had one good feeding where he was actually consuming the food instead of just making funny faces. Hopefully this will get better over time.

Also on a final note, I had my first Father Day and it was great, I got woke up at 8:30 a.m. two Brendan, Kye-Lynn and Jeni all presenting cards…two of which had them in there mouth ;-).

Enjoy the pictures.

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New Blog

Phase 1 of site restructure complete. I have setup the new ‘Daniel and Jeni Roop Family Blog’ up. I have titled it “Two Become…”. For those of you who saw the wedding site, might have noticed “Two become one…” was the “tag line” for or wedding site, and I felt it was appropriate to keep the theme but drop the one, since the blog’s intention is to go over everything the two of us do, not just our marriage.

That being said, I have a few more things I want to change before I start putting new content up.

1. Create a redirect from danielandjeni.com/baby so that anyone who has it bookmared will automatically be redirected here.

2. Update the Splash page at danielandjeni.com to point to Family Blog instead of Baby Blog, maybe I will leave baby blog, and point to the Brendan category, since that is what I will tag all the posts about Brendan as.

3. Move all family related posts from danielroop.com/blog to this blog.

4. Non related to this, but I plan on changing danielroop.com into a technical blog, about everything that I learn and do in my career. So if anyone was reading it for my political rants, they probably won’t show up there anymore.

So everyone just sit back, and be patient with me, I have some pictures of Brendan sporting his Gator apperal for the big win, as well as some more recent stuff.