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2007 is almost over.
Highlights are:

• Got to see Glenn grow up quite a bit. He went from semi-worm state to walking, running, and pseudo talking boy.
• Celebrated our 5 wedding anniversary. It’s a good milestone to reach.
• Heath is still pretty good, need to loose more weight.
• Doubled my watch collection.
• Tiff is playing a current, modern game system (Nintendo DS Lite).

Lowlights:

• Still no flying car in my garage.
• Still no personal robot.
• Bush and company have not been impeached for war crimes and treason.
• Gas under $3.00 a gallon is “cheap”

Had a nice 5th anniversary with Tiffany.  It’s been a heck of a ride so far.  The weather was nicer than when we were married.  I remember it was about a 10 degree high the day we got married. 
The Bagel did not disappoint.  Very good burgers and the wait staff was excellent, even during the lunch rush.
The place has not changed much in the last 7 1/2 year or so, when went there on our first official dinner date.

Glenn kept Grammie busy, he was just a ball of energy.  It was nice to get out and do things that are usually very hard to do when he is around.  Going to 10 different stores with him in tow is not easy. 

Just got back from the family Christmas get together.
Got lots of really nice gifts.  I will have enough fiction and non fiction to keep me satisfied a while.  I want to learn more about digital photography, so now I have some sources to help me out.  Ron got me an interesting watch/clock book from 1963.  It is like a snapshot in time, just a few years before the quartz revolution in watches.  The White Elephant game was very good to me.  I got an older Nintendo Gameboy DS.  I think I was the only person in the extended Nelson family who did not have a Gameboy DS.
The gifts for Glenn were great.  I was not expecting him to get a little car to use 🙂

I am looking forward to tomorrow, our fifth wedding anniversary!  We are going to the same restaurant we went to on our first date.  I can taste the pickles now.

I am sure Tiff will blog about it as well, but Glenn gave us some early Christmas presents.
He did two pretty amazing thing today:

• In the morning, we asked him “Where do waffles come from?” He walked to the kitchen and pointed at the toaster! We then made him some waffles. We make them fresh, then freeze them. We re-heat them in the toaster. Simple as eggos, but they taste 10 times better. He knew what a waffle was AND he remembered we heated them in the toaster.
• More remarkable was Tiff was on the floor in the dining room and needed a pillow. She jokingly asked Glenn, “Can you go get Mommy a pillow?” He got up, walked to the living room, got a throw pillow off the couch and walked back to the dining room and gave Mommy a pillow! We were just shocked. He understood a sentence, remembered what a pillow was and where we kept them and understood the grammar enough to actually get a pillow. It was pretty amazing. No pointing on our part, he just did it!

Even though he does not talk much, I think he is understanding A LOT. F*ck, now I have to stop swearing around him.

Went out for a little while today. It is the first time in memory the wind/cold actually took my breath away. In the 100 feet from the car to the store entrance, we were literally out of breath!
Wind chill wise, it must be -10F or worse out there.
But, it all turned out ok. The mall was very busy, but it really didn’t bother us. The more people, the more Glenn is distracted. All of our Christmas shopping has been done for a while. Glenn was a pretty good boy. We discovered he likes lemonade! Tiff gave him some in Panera and he seemed to like it.
While Tiff was looking at some jewelery, I was looking at some watches. Very few Automatics out there now. All quartz. It’s a shame, really. Quartz watches have close to zero collectors’ value. Saw a bass ackwards Automatic ‘divers’ watch today. It was a Rado, 300m, but it did not have a rotating bezel, had a small, hard to read face, yet had a helium release valve. Just to let you know, helium release valves are only used for truly hard core diving, where you breath a helium/oxygen mix. The watch was $1150 and ugly as sin.  I think it was this model:

Being a first time Dad, I am surprised how much I really love the little guy. It is hard to describe how you feel about Glenn. Lately, has has been wanting hugs while on his changing table. He hugs me close and whispers cute baby sweet nothings in my ear. Make me want to hug him for hours.