randy4au
Ka-chow!
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Welcome to all my friends from the Trip Reports forum! Since wrapping up my trip report back in August, I've kept that thread alive with reports about things going on in my life--particularly updates about my house which was under construction in the fall and was finally completed at the end of November. But when a moderator began warning people to refrain from random, off-topic chit-chat in their trip reports, I realized that it was time to start a new thread in the appropriate forum.
For those who've stumbled upon this thread out of curiosity, you can find out more about me and my family, our WDW trip last July, and events that took place during this past fall in my trip report. Here's the link:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1525129
But for the benefit of any new friends that decide to subscribe to this thread, I'll give a brief introduction of my family and I. I'm Randy (39), and I've been married for nearly 14 years to my wife, Cindy (38). We have two boys--Austin (6) and Andrew (11 months).
I was hoping to start this thread back in December, but I got busy during the holidays and then resumed graduate school earlier this month. For those who don't know, I decided a couple of years ago that I wanted to become a social studies teacher (middle or high school) and am pursuing a master's degree in education. After taking the last two semesters off, I'm now in my fourth semester of grad school, but I'm only taking about 2 classes per semester (I took 3 classes my first two semesters, but now that we have two boys, two classes is about all that I can handle).
After a very busy week of work and school, I decided to take advantage of a relaxing, 3-day weekend (no work or school for me on Monday thanks to the MLK holiday) and get this new thread started. I've got several weeks of photos and reports that I've been waiting to post, but I'll begin with the biggest news of the last couple of weeks--our 11-month-old son, Andrew, is now walking! Back around Christmas, he was trying so hard to start walking, and by the end of December, he was able to take two or three awkward steps before falling down. Finally, on January 3, he was finally able to walk across a room without falling down. On that day, I shot this brief video clip:
When that video was shot, we joked about how he looked like Frankenstein when he was walking, but now, just two weeks later, he's walking with much more ease and confidence (perhaps I should shoot another video clip to show his progress).
Well, I'll close my first post of this thread now so that I can invite my trip report friends to subscribe. I'll be back soon with more photos and commentary!
For those who've stumbled upon this thread out of curiosity, you can find out more about me and my family, our WDW trip last July, and events that took place during this past fall in my trip report. Here's the link:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=1525129
But for the benefit of any new friends that decide to subscribe to this thread, I'll give a brief introduction of my family and I. I'm Randy (39), and I've been married for nearly 14 years to my wife, Cindy (38). We have two boys--Austin (6) and Andrew (11 months).
I was hoping to start this thread back in December, but I got busy during the holidays and then resumed graduate school earlier this month. For those who don't know, I decided a couple of years ago that I wanted to become a social studies teacher (middle or high school) and am pursuing a master's degree in education. After taking the last two semesters off, I'm now in my fourth semester of grad school, but I'm only taking about 2 classes per semester (I took 3 classes my first two semesters, but now that we have two boys, two classes is about all that I can handle).
After a very busy week of work and school, I decided to take advantage of a relaxing, 3-day weekend (no work or school for me on Monday thanks to the MLK holiday) and get this new thread started. I've got several weeks of photos and reports that I've been waiting to post, but I'll begin with the biggest news of the last couple of weeks--our 11-month-old son, Andrew, is now walking! Back around Christmas, he was trying so hard to start walking, and by the end of December, he was able to take two or three awkward steps before falling down. Finally, on January 3, he was finally able to walk across a room without falling down. On that day, I shot this brief video clip:
When that video was shot, we joked about how he looked like Frankenstein when he was walking, but now, just two weeks later, he's walking with much more ease and confidence (perhaps I should shoot another video clip to show his progress).
Well, I'll close my first post of this thread now so that I can invite my trip report friends to subscribe. I'll be back soon with more photos and commentary!
I'm not much of a morning person. Suppose to snow here in GA. Are ya'll expecting snow?
) LOL. It did take me 3 more years to graduate, because I changed my major, plus some of the requirements had changed so there were some new classes I had to take (computer, economics, etc). Hopefully you'll get to keep all those hard earned credits!
GO DORES!!!! 
