Pirates And Ninja

I am a little behind with my time sensitive content.  Wednesday was Eric’s (my godson … how mature sounding for me) first birthday.  We went over to Sean and Janine’s house for cake shortly after I got home from work.  It was pretty fun and the cake was excellent (sugar much?).  Travis had a good time too.  There were 4 kids there all within a year or so of each other.  It is funny to watch how shy and quiet Travis becomes around other people.

A side effect of this visit was I managed to have my first hands on experience with the new Nintendo Wii, since Sean does indeed have one.  I must say it does indeed seem really fun.  I only managed to play the Baseball and Tennis games but I quite enjoyed myself.  I did find a problem with baseball since I bat left handed and the game only seems to support right handed batting.  I am sure there is a setting to change or a button to press but I couldn’t find it during my limited play.  I hope the crowd of children and parents understood that I am not the best switch hitter around.  I bat for average from the right but all my power comes from the left.  The strangest part of the whole Wii thing … Heidi wants one, seemingly much more then I do.

Last night we celebrated the American Thanksgiving (since Heidi is American and I sort of am as well … but we will save that story for another post).  I like to call it TG2.  Who am I to argue with a second round of turkey and stuffing.  But a big Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers … inventing a holiday that revolves around eating and football … brilliant!

Tomorrow (Saturday the 25th) Travis turns 8 months old.  Time does fly by really quickly.  He has grown up so fast … all of the cliches are true.  This is especially strange since sometimes (especially the nights that he doesn’t sleep well) it seems like time is traveling in reverse.  But when I stop and look back, or see old pictures, I am really blown away.