Blog Me: April 2008

Caden loves "playing" with an old remote control we gave him. Thing is, when he plays with certain things its a love/hate situation. He demands to play with his remote then once he gets it he has no idea what to do with it so he gets mad at it. Wonder where he got that from? He does the same things with books. So, with remotes and books he has a very short love span and an even longer hate span. Wonder how long that will last. Those two things are very important we can't have him getting so upset in their presence :)

In other news, I'm at home with Caden for a couple days this week while Sarah is back at work. She stayed home with him all last week because of the RSV. Caden is better now, but the daycare lady's daughter is sick and Sarah didn't want to expose Caden to anymore possible illnesses. After going cold free for the first 6.5 months of his life, seems like he has been sick for almost the entire last month or so. He was okay in Costa Rica, but besides then he has just been a mess.

We are still reeling from the CR trip. The ear and respiratory infections Caden has are from the plane ride, according to the doctor. I took a big hit in one of my college courses because of a missed assignment. We are both still really tired and because of his colds both really behind at work. That "vacation" set us back about a month. As I told my college professor after she wouldn't accept my late work, "thats the last vacation Im taking during my Masters." We'll see, still got 2 planned over the summer, San Luis and NYC, but neither of those require disconnecting for a week. In fact, just the opposite, will need to have computer on those trips since taking full-time summer school courses. I went through my schedule with my advisor yesterday and it looks like I will complete the Masters program in Spring of 09. So this time next year will be taking Comprehensive Exams and wrapping up last 3 classes.

I'm doing an informal presentation, called a poster session, at one of the biggest education conferences in the country over the summer. The conference is called the National Education Computer Conference and is in San Antonio at the end of June. There were over 20,000 people at last years conference so its a big one. Look forward to the challenge. Im in the process of putting together student samples and will make a video with my students to show the unique types of Web 2.0 tools kids are using in my classes. I wrote a proposal to lead a group at the Virtual Schools Symposium in Fall of 08, so if that gets accepted will present for the 2nd time there. All in all, work is going really good. Kind of feels like I've hardly been there with all of the missed days because of the baby.

Speaking of the baby. He is crawling like mad right now. Mostly he just crawls to stand on things. He is pulling himself up onto everything right now, including the rails on his crib. We have had to lower the crib to the lowest setting but his head still reaches over the top when he stands up. Hopefully he wont get strong enough to pull himself over anytime soon. From what I understand, I used to get out of my crib, then get out of my house, rip off my clothes and run down the street naked when I was little. Ahh, good times. I also bit my tongue in half falling out of my crib once, rumor is that I had to get it sewed back together. Hope the same fate doesn't lie in the wake for Caden, have a feeling that hope is just a pipe dream though. He is a maniac (Sarah is trying to wean me off the word monster) and is quite the handful. Wish us luck.