This past Sunday we had a birthday party for Lionel and Nathan. It was a lot of fun. We had donations setup for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children. Thank you for your donations. I’m sure both hospitals will appreciate the donation, and I know it will help.
Nathan and Lionel had a blast eating their cake. Nathan seemed to be disappointed with the baked goods while Lionel wanted to dive right in and eat it all up.
Everyone seemed to have a lot of fun. Below are some more pictures. You can click here to see the entire set.
Mary Joyce got me a pedometer and today was my first day of full use. I went swimming this morning and when I came home, I mowed the backyard. Somehow I also managed to rack up 10,894 steps. Do any of you have a pedometer? I was thinking about tracking it per day in a database to track my step performance.
Do any of you use a pedometer? Do you use something to track your daily results?
Laura has started to send out a picture of the week. I think it is a great way to keep everyone up to date with pictures of Lionel. I have finally started uploading photos closer to the time that they were taken. I really like the recent photos I have taken, but I encourage everyone to sign in to flickr and add me as your family or friend.
As part of my degree at George Mason University (GMU) I am required to take some courses that are extremely similar to courses I took in Germany while attending UMUC (European Division). The courses I am currently trying to transfer are:
IFSM430 to IT462 (Information Systems Security)
CMIS140 & CMIS240 to IT207 & IT208 (C++ Programming Classes)
GMU requires me to obtain the syllabus for courses from the year they were taken, and unfortunately that was not one of the things I knew to keep, so I didn’t. It has proven difficult to obtain any documents from the University of Maryland European Division, and I fear I might be unable to. The registrar’s office was extremely unhelpful. They did not offer to look up my information or get in contact with the professor. Instead, they told me that they did not keep that information on file and did not help me.
I have 2 requests for information out there on the ether. One with a faculty member at UMUC in the United States and the other, a request to Professor Frank House, the professor for my classes at UMUC.
Proving difficult, I have continued to attempt to get the required information. I am surprised to find that UMUC ED does not keep the course syllabi. I can only hope that Professor House or the UMUC Faculty can assist me in finding a syllabus for each of the courses listed above.
It has been a blast escaping to Great Wolf lodge in Williamsburg, VA. However, I am looking forward to tomorrow, our last day in the pool, and our return home. It has been very fun and I think Lionel really enjoys the water. I included a video below of a waterslide, and I am going to try my best to get some good video of him in the water tomorrow. He splashes and kicks almost the entire time he is in the water.
Check out the video below of a water slide at Great Wolf:
