Filed December 23, 2007 at 9:30 pm under Family by TJ
Happy Holidays everyone! It’s holiday season, here’s the first set of photos for those interested. Tonight we hosted the Christmas Party with the Robinson’s, Jaymie’s “adopted” family. It was lots of fun, but I’m pooped. We’ll probably get some more pictures, there was a pro photographer here taking the nice shots. I just got some quick ones so people can see the kids.
 I guess daddy gets coal for giving Santa Easter Bunny ears.
That’s what Tanner says, she has Chickenbawks, and they go bawk, bawk, like a chicken goes. Yep, she broke out with chicken pox last Friday, so we have been doing a decent job keeping her away from people. I, myself, have been on vacation all week, helping deal with Tanner, who has been a real character all week. You can tell she feels like crap.
So, guess who came down with chickenbawks this evening?  Most people who know me know I’ve never had them before. I’m not looking forward to the next week – I have a Olympic Triathlon scheduled for Saturday, as well as a wedding Saturday evening. We’ll have to see how that goes. So I guess for now, I’ll just leave you with a quote:
Filed September 15, 2007 at 6:25 pm under Family by TJ
Guess who’s walking now?
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Filed June 13, 2007 at 12:42 am under Family by TJ
What a couple of weeks, it surely has to end soon. Tonight, I found my Muloccan Cockatoo on his side on the bottom of his cage. He was still alive, so we drove him to the emergency vets office. The determined it was one of the following: Blocked Airway, Heavy Metal Poisoning or Broken Neck. Before they were able to determine, he passed on.
Jaymie is doing great, as always, and is extremely busy keeping up with ours as well as the neighborhood children. She’s a fantastic mom, and I love her to the moon and back…
We recently spent a week in Gulf Shores (Orange Beach) in a great condo, and we all had a blast there – it was a much deserved break for us all.Â
She recently quit smoking, and is doing awesome with that, and has even started walking quite regularly as rehab for her recent knee surgery. I’m going to try to get her to do Yoga with me Saturday morning before swim practices – we’ll see how that works out…
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Teressa has started doing triathlons – last year on a team with me, and last weekend on her own, and she’s quite the triathlete. Last week, she got third place in a Triathlon with a 1/4 mile swim, 16.7 mile bike and 5k (3.1mile) run. She completed it in just a hair over 2 hours and 10 minutes. Quite an acomplishment, as she’s 14 – we had to tell everyone she was 15 for the race, as that was the minimum age…
She starts High School this fall, and has already tried out AND made the high school volleyball team. She had never played volleyball before, and walked right on the team – they picked 6 of about 30 or so trying out. Like I said, quite the athlete.Â
Though, as her mom said, Athletics won’t necessarily pay for her college – it’s going to be her good grades – she got straight A’s again this year.
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Can you believe Tanner is 2 already? Time flys. She’s quite the little miss independant, and talks too well. She’s really quick to pick up and repeat new phrases, which I found out when I called the neighbors bloodhound a Chickenshit. Now she runs around calling him Chickenshit Clyde. Oy!
She loves swimming and playing outside, and loves her daddy (and mommy) bunches. She has so much energy, I’d love to find a way to bottle it up and save it for a rainy day.
She’s also quite a great little helper, she love to help with her little brother, and loves to kiss him as well as pick on him.Â
She’s going to be the kid you read about who goes from preschool to second grade the first year. She’s WAY too smart for her own good. She just turned 2, and is pretty handy counting and with her alphabet, and can even recognize some written words (not reading, but word recognizition). She also has about 20 or so sign language signs in her vocabulary, and is extremely quick to pick up new ones.
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Thomas is quite the little ham. He is probably the happiest baby I have ever seen, quick with the smile, quick with the laugh. He’ll probably be a stand up comedian when he grows up.
Currently, he is rolling, sitting, crawling, and very mobile. He likes to grab sissy’s toys and roll away, tormenting her. He’s very independant and doesn’t like to be held tons, but he absolutely loves his bouncy, bouncy jumpie seat.
About the only thing he likes better than his bouncy seat – he loves food. He’ll eat anything you put in front of him, and lots of it. His favorites are fruit, and any table food that is mushy enough to eat – the other night he had some stew with us.
As many of you know this heathan is a recovering Catholic, and a product of Catholic Schools. If you are offended by religious jokes, get over it, this is meant in great light, and is in no way derogortory to any religion. This story involves parrots and hookers, with a touch of religious intent.
What, you ask, why do I call myself a heathen? In answer to that, I ask if you actually know what the term means… Wikipedia defines it as: A modern heathen is a non-believer in anything supernatural. In older definitions, it is defined as: 1: an unconverted member of a people or nation that does not acknowledge the God of the Bible 2: an uncivilized or irreligious person.
For my purposes, we’ll go with the Wikipedia version – I look at things to logically, from a scientific method, and Occam’s razor does apply to my beliefs (“All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.” )- hell Occam himself was a Franciscan Friar in the 1300’s, so I guess you can say the Catholic Church even has my back in my beliefs…Â
Did I say something about hookers and a parrot?
Catholic Parrots
A lady goes to her priest one day and tells him, “Father, I have a problem. I have two female parrots, but they only know how to say one thing.”
“What do they say?” the priest inquired.
They say, “Hi, we’re hookers! Do you want to have some fun?”, she confessed to the Father.
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That’s obscene!” the priest exclaimed, then he thought for a moment. “You know,” he said, “I may have a solution to your problem. I have two male talking parrots, which I have taught to pray and read the Bible. Bring your two parrots over to my house, and we’ll put them in the cage with Francis and Peter. My parrots can teach your parrots to praise and worship, and your parrots are sure to stop saying that phrase in no time.”
“Thank you,” the woman responded, “this may very well be the solution.”
The next day, she brought her female parrots to the priest’s house. As he ushered her in, she saw that his two male parrots were inside their cage holding rosary beads and praying. Impressed, she walked over and placed her parrots in with them.
After a few minutes, the female parrots cried out in unison: “Hi, we’re hookers! Do you want to have some fun?”
There was stunned silence. Shocked, one male parrot looked over at the other male parrot and exclaimed, “Put the beads away, Frank. Our prayers have been answered!”
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As my daughter Tanner would say “Ta Da!” You guys have a great weekend!
Filed November 29, 2006 at 12:33 am under Family by TJ
Well, I made it one week post neck surgery. The pain and numbness in my extremities is gone, which means the surgery was successful, I think…  I do I have TONS of pain in my neck still. On a 1-10 pain scale the doctors use, my neck pain is a 40.
Thanksgiving AM, I decided it would be a fun thing to try to do a summersault down the steps. It’s actually hard to go up and down steps when you have a neck collar on and can’t look down. Nothing broke, and I was just a little bruised, and scared I had just paralized myself. I was laying down on the floor wiggling my toes and hands and trying to make sure I really didn’t hurt myself too bad. My doctors office said I can be pretty sure that I didn’t damage anything, or I’d still be laying on the floor at the bottom of the steps. I’ve decided to really hold onto the rails going up/down steps for a little while…
Sunday morning, I woke up in tears from pain from the incision. Apparently, I’m alergic to the steri-strips they used to close the incision. I ended up taking the steri-strips off Sunday AM, and found out that everything under them is raw (think poison ivy rash). Cortizone to stop the reaction, and covered with gauze and neosporin, and it is starting to look better fortunatly a couple of days later.
I was told that things will get better every day from here on out, but, at this point in time, I have not seen any improvement in neck pain. If I don’t get up in the middle of the night and take my pain pills, I wake up in the morning with tears in my eyes from the pain. Jaymie has been really good about waking me up with Thomas’ 5am feeding to make sure I take my pain medicine. If I don’t, I end up spending half the morning laying down, trying to get “caught back up”. And, it makes me grouchy. To everyone.
And I feel bad, as I can’t tell Tanner that daddy can’t pick her up. And when TBear was here for Thanksgiving, I ended up spending a large chunk of time in bed, flat on my back. I know that TBear had to have been bored. The timing of everything just sucks, but I guess there just is no good time for stuff like this.
Jaymie is doing good after her surgeries as well. Just to catch people up, here’s the last month.
10/4 – Jaymie had a C-Section, and Thomas was born
10/30 – Jaymie had her Gall Bladder removed (laproscopy)
10/31 – Jaymie came home from the hospital
11/1 – Jaymie goes back to the hospital for abdominal pains
11/5 – Jaymie has 2 surgeries. One to put in 2 stints (endoscopy), and the second to suck excess fluid out (laproscopy) of her belly
11/20 – TJ has his neck surgery
11/21 – Jaymie has surgery to remove 1 of the 2 stints (second one comes out mid-December
11/28 – TJ has the “Big V” (Boy does that suck…)
So, it’s been a busy couple of months and the current score, I feel like someone stabbed me in the back/neck, and then kicked me in the crotch.
The next couple of days are supposed to be nice outside. Maybe I’ll try to get out for a walk around the block for some fresh air.
Filed October 21, 2006 at 3:44 pm under Family by TJ
We’re down in Bowling Green visiting TBear this weekend. This morning was pool time for TBear, the Munch-e-kin (need a “T” nickname for her…) and me. Jaymie snapped a few good pictures which are here.
Filed October 13, 2006 at 8:04 pm under Family by TJ
Today we had Thomas’ newborn pictures taken. While they were getting his pictures, the photographer snapped one (and only one) of Big Sis Tanner. He caught her personality so perfectly, we had to buy it too. Too bad her halo was crooked… Maybe the horns caused that? Regardless, she’s a cutie…
Her brother Thomas just did not want to wake up for the pictures, but he looks pretty cute as well…
Mom, Dad, Tanner and Thomas are adapting pretty well. Hopefully we can get to go visit Teressa very soon so she can finally meet her baby brother (she was camping on fall break when he was born). I’m kind of excited about it all. I think over the holidays, we are going to try to get a picture of TBear at the same place with the same kahki background, and maybe get one of all three of them. I’ll be sure to post them when I do that. Click one of the pictures below to see the whole gallery. (There are also some new pictures in http://www.tjtryon.com/gallery/view.php?gallery_id=84 and http://www.tjtryon.com/gallery/view.php?gallery_id=87 )
We bought a CD with all the images, and can reprint them. If you want to have a copy of any of the prints, let us know, and we can send them to your local Walmart, or send you a copy of the files for you to reprint. Don’t try to print the images out of this gallery, as they are not high resolution enough, you won’t be happy with the results.
Teressa has started doing triathlons – last year on a team with me, and last weekend on her own, and she’s quite the triathlete. Last week, she got third place in a Triathlon with a 1/4 mile swim, 16.7 mile bike and 5k (3.1mile) run. She completed it in just a hair over 2 hours and 10 minutes. Quite an acomplishment, as she’s 14 – we had to tell everyone she was 15 for the race, as that was the minimum age…
Can you believe Tanner is 2 already? Time flys. She’s quite the little miss independant, and talks too well. She’s really quick to pick up and repeat new phrases, which I found out when I called the neighbors bloodhound a Chickenshit. Now she runs around calling him Chickenshit Clyde. Oy!
Thomas is quite the little ham. He is probably the happiest baby I have ever seen, quick with the smile, quick with the laugh. He’ll probably be a stand up comedian when he grows up.
  
   