September Stuff

I am sure as those who view our blog can tell, we haven't had much time to update it. So here is the update for September (because it has been a month). We have started school and it has been hectic. It wasn't suppose to be but it has. Joseph has taken on a lot of projects. One is the dome home project we have told some of you about. He is helping to render (make pictures) of homes using dome technology. He has been able to get a little bit of extra income and been able to use it for his graduate school portfolio and future resume. What's so prestigious about this project is that a couple investors want to use this technology the change the home building industry not only in the U.S. but in many countries through the world. Today Joseph is at a meeting with the President of Senegal along with other investors to present the ideas. We would tell you more about the project but we would have to kill you! really! that is how confidential this project is going to be. One of the investors is the lawyer who took on the tobacco companies and won. The other well lets just say he has had lunch "on a personal basis" with the President of the United States. We are really excited about this unexpected project, although we have had to push back mailing the applications for grad school and doing some school projects.

No, Joseph hasn't applied for grad schools yet. We were planning on those being done before school started but with the GRE getting in our way and this portfolio Joseph has had to create we have been set back. Cross your fingers that he will be able to mail it before October.

The second large project Joseph is working on is for his Senior Capstone class. He is working with a couple of professors at SUU design a school building. A professor in the education department is helping to write a paper on how the design of schooling today is out of date and a new building needs to be designed as well as his in-class suggestions. Supposedly this guy is going to have this in major educational magazines across the nation. This will be a lot of work but at least Joseph has all semester to do it.

I am doing well in my classes. What's funny is that my stress and pain class helps me to be a little bit more relaxed as I juggle Grant and my schooling. Joseph is trying real hard to juggle school and give me time to study. It has been hectic and we can hardly see the light at the end of the tunnel but I'm sure it is coming faster than we think.

Grant is still doing well. He has about fourteen teeth now, possibly sixteen. I don't check as often as I used to because, well it's dangerous in there and I don't want to teach him that putting one's fingers in other people's mouths is an appropriate action.

He is starting to walk much more often. He has just started walking from room to room without the use to stabilizers but he still doesn't trust himself to the point that he is walking all the time. I think he would just assume crawl because he has it down and he can get there faster and safer. He's doing really well but the day will soon come that I will have to start running after him. Yea.

I think that's pretty much our life right now. Hoping for the present school situation to be over and to be able to do the working thing. Time will tell what our future has in store for us.

Yes he is still taking a bath in the sink. Hopefully he will get over the scariness of the shower before he gets too big.

We have taught him many new things. How to drive (keys given to Grant by his to-be parents in-law, Isaac and Debbie Goodrich: they must want him to drive Clara in a car rather than a big-wheel).

How to play video games (sorry mom)

How to walk

And how to get whatever I want...

This video is the perfect example of our cutie little boy. We find the strangest things to do or say to make Grant do the silliest things. I was reading a book one day and it showed a picture of a peacock and underneath the bird the words "strut" were typed. I then said it in this way and this was my reaction.