Wow! I can't believe it's been almost a year! Celeste is now showing so much more personality and is almost ready to walk. She won't eat baby food anymore, but clambers all over us and our food. Unfortunately, we got her allergy tests back and she's allergic to: cow's milk, peanuts, almonds, eggs, soy, shrimp, tomatoes, oats.

Yikes!

So, we'll need to be extra careful with her diet, as well as daycare's diet. We hope she grows out of at least some of these allergies!

I went to Disney during college (competing in the national university mascot championships), right after grad school, and now. So this is my third trip.

We spent the week, checking out most of the major attractions, like DisneyWorld, Epcot, WaterWorld and Universal Studios/CityWalk. Elana and I even got away for a night at Pleasure Island. Too bad it rained alot and boy was it HOT.

The crowds are much larger, although they've made some improvements in the queuing process, so wait times aren't as bad as you'd think. They've updated many of the rides and attractions, to keep up with the latest and greatest movies and trends.

This was also our first real family vacation. Infact, we brought along Maria and her two year old son Mathew. We were in the process of caring for them (kind of like an adoption), so what a better way to integrate them into the family than to bring them on their first plane trip!

Check out the photo album for pictures of the week.

Well, you guessed it. Another year, another company. But I was really hoping that this one was going to last a while since it has links to my old company, BSG, from 1991-1997. But in the high tech industry, things change so fast and so movement is common. Infact, this last company moved so fast, that they held their annual meetings every month! (Okay, so they were technically monthly meetings, but you get the idea).

In the end, it was great seeing and working with some friends and coworkers from my past, and I'm sure we'll all cross paths again someday.

Until then, I'm off to DisneyWorld!!!

It's amazing how fast babies grow (both physically and intellectually). Every day is a new experience. Seeing the first smile is amazing, and I hate to say it, but you just gotta laugh at the first temper tantrum. Celeste is only 6 months old, so stay tuned for more changes.

Oh, and for a tracking of her physical growth, check out the photo album. I've been taking a photo each month next to a stuffed animal so you can see how she's growing.

Is it strange that new parents tend to blog about their babies more than anything else?

At 5 months, she probably won't remember too much about her first Christmas, but we did take our obligatory family photo in front of the tree to send to everyone in our Christmas cross-match review log card distribution (wow, sounds so formal that it doesn't sound like the holidays anymore). Anyway, this is our first year sending out a photo, so it could be the start of something that everyone else seems to do.

She got her toys and such, and then we whisked her off for her first plane trip to Houston to see the in-laws (on both sides). What a blast!