A New Beginning

So, it has been a long time since my last post. Instead of making excuses or promises about doing better, we'll just agree that things have been crazy the last few months and I am not very good at updating blogs.

For those of you reading Vivian's Mommy Blog, you know that we recently moved to Tallahassee, Fl so that Yvonne can finish her doctorate. I left my job at Destineer/Atomic games and am helping to start up Mad Monkey Militia, an iPhone game developer. Of course, that means I don't get paid until we actually ship something and lots of people buy it (I'll let you know when to go buy our first game. :-)

Vivian is doing very well. She is getting nice and chubby, eats a lot and sleeps a lot. We have been very fortunate that she sleeps through the night. She finally figured out how to turn over and is very close to learning how to crawl.

We are currently living in an apartment. The house we are renting will be available at the end of the month. Originally we were going to live in an extended-stay hotel, but 500sq feet is just too small for two adults, and baby, and a dog. Plus, the place was very loud and the internet connection sucked. When we walked in Yvonne's first reaction was to call the apartments that were we originally going to stay at and see if they still had anything available. Luckily they had a three bedroom, so we moved in the next day. Life was much better once we got our rented furniture. Overall though, I'm very much looking forward to moving into the house and finally setteling in.

Tallahassee is definitely smaller then the Raleigh area. It is great to be so close to everything, however there isn't a lot here. For me it isn't so bad since I'm pretty much a Target shopper, but if you are looking for anything "fancy", you'd have to drive to Jacksonville. I am looking forward to taking advantage of the outdoor activities here.

I'm also taking over most of the baby-duties. The childcare options here seem pretty limited and we figure it would be better to just keep Vivian at home instead of putting her in a baby-mill or some crazy persons house. We'll still need to find some sort of baby-sitter so Yvonne and I can go out and have some quality time. And, it will save us a bunch of money, which is a good thing seeing as I'm "unemployed".

No promisses when the next update will be, but I'll try to at least put little short updates up more often.