Happy New Year!

Things I’m looking forward to in 2009:

- Buying my first house

- Seeing my daughter turn 1

- An Obama presidency/Bush leaving office

- Final half-season of Battlestar Galactica

In 2009, I resolve to:

- Make better use of my time, money and other resources

- Procrastinate less (see above)

- Read more fiction

- Be more helpful around the house

- Re-do my professional Web site

- Finish my technical writing certification

- Grow more adept at Flash

She crawls: video evidence

Huge photo dump

I just posted a bunch of new photos from my recent romp to Brazil on Flickr. I have more, but I've used up all my Flickr bandwidth for the month. I highly recommend the slideshow option.

Smiling on cue

 

Wow, this blog is turning into a regular "look at my baby" site.

Elena is a month old

Has it been a month already? Has it been a whole month since I last posted to this blog? Was February the last full night of sleep I had?

It's been an amazing and exhausting time for both Andrea and me -- especially Andrea. But other parents tell us it gets better.

Elena has been especially fussy today, so it looks like we're in for a long night -- it looks like she's a little colicky.

So that's why I haven't posting -- or doing much of anything outside the home -- recently.

Making room for baby

Andrea and I just signed a lease for a bigger apartment and have begun setting up the baby's room. Figuring out the Ikea set-up manual will probably be the easiest part of parenthood.

Busy, busy, busy

Posting will be a little lighter than usual over the next couple of weeks due o a confluence of events this week.

• Season premiere of Heroes.
• My discovery that Amazon.com is selling Battlestar Galactica season 3 downloads. Believe me, you won't find this (legally) anywhere else -- it's not even on DVD yet.
• My Flash animation course at the local community college (which despite being online, actually has deadlines).
• Halo 3, which assuming I've timed things right at GameFly, should be coming this week. To its credit, GameFly seems to have ordered many copies in anticipation of demand.

More news on the baby front: the chromosome tests came back today, and it's definitely a girl. Andrea, as you can probably imagine, is thrilled.

It's (probably) a girl!

Though we can't really be sure until the chromosome tests are complete, two sonograms on two continents seem to indicate that we're having a baby girl.

Everything looks good, and the baby looks healthy. And as you can see, she moves around in her sleep as much as I do.

 

P.S. After strolling through the "related videos" links, I see that sonogram videos could be considered their own subgenre on YouTube!