March Update

March Edition:
Apparently March came in like a lion this year. Let me bring you up to date with a few highlights.
You, your mother, and I now live in a nice little apartment on the south side of Richmond. Your mother and I have plans to be staying here for the next couple of years as I finish my classes at John Tyler and then move on to Virginia State University (VSU). Your mother continues to work her job diligently as she is feeding the hungry people in the Richmond area. Also, Your Aunt Jada has announced to us that she will be getting married to Charlie Bennett.

We did the Verizon Fios thing for television. Well I can tell you, this whole concept of children's television has metamorphisized in such a wonderful way in only a few short years. I could tell you stories of people telling me stories of when they were a child how they remember the town's first television. This tells you that the technology has in a recent past not known itself to be so standard. Even when I was a child there were a few major broadcasters but they each held to a single channel. When I became a teenager the satellite televison brought about a time where more than one channel of the same broadcaster. So like we had Disney which is one of the major pioneers of children's television. We had Nickeloden, which I can tell you detailed stories about as I had the great honor of visiting their studios located in Florida. Well, Just to keep a long story about Fios short, allow me to say, Nick jr., Disney jr, and a few shows on other channels are now providing such fantastic children's television that I actually feel comfortable with my child being in front of a television. And I know that so many generations of parents have been against this in the past. However, we now have LCD technology which puts to rest all of the concerns of radiation from the old Cathode Ray Tube(CRT) television, thank you Marie Currie for that one.
So, you have this thing that you do, when I hand you a sippy cup you grab it by both handles and start drinking it. Afterwards you begin to realize that you are standing there with both hands on the sippy cup and no hand holding on to anything else, this cues you to then squat and sit down. It really is so adorable.

Also in March:
As the end of this month draws near a close so begins the preparations for your birthday celebration. You will be turning 1 year old on the third day of next month. Congratulations little man, your father has managed to keep you alive! Apparently I have done something correctly as a parent so far. The bummer part to the whole celebration planning is that you do have a doctors appointment for that morning of April 3rd. During this appointment you will be receiving your 1 year vaccine shots. Sorry, it worked out for you that way, but on the plus side of this you will get an update of your weight for your birthday. Don't fear, your mother and I have something pretty cool planned for you for this year.

"That's the sound of robot hitting magnet." -Tyrone, Backyardigans, Nikelodeon.

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 And of course, when it comes in like a lion it always goes out like a lamb, this month we call March. This particular March went out like a lamb, in that it was white like one. Yes ladies and gentlemen, with only one week remaining in March it snowed in RVA.

 Photographic Evidence:

Reformatting Apparently

Reformatting is a process of deleting all of the content and files on your hard drive, at which point you will reload all of the core partitions into what could be compared to as fresh machines....

The major downfall the arises as a result of this process is that you will lose any saved data on that c: drive unless you had it backed up on removable media.I hope you will not have to spend to much of your time toiling thru this process.It has in my experience been better to just upgrade to a new machine using the current machine just to handle archive data handling.

Any How I continue by saying that I am now going to reformat the way in which I handle this blog. I am going to make a monthly post that I will edit and manipulate the content of the post to result in a final product being a monthly article. This should keep you well updated with information regarding your development from 12-24 months.

I feel this process of blogging will result in my posted content being more helpful to you as well as maintaining fresh and credible information. This may help other audiences to moreso relate in a personable way as well.

In regards to my feelings on this I am genuinely optimistic that it will be a great way to go, at least for the next few months to evaluate how all goes.

In closing on my remarks for the month of Feb. we are looking into moving into a nice new apartment as of the beginning of next month, and new beginnings are always refreshing. Hopefully with the ability to get a better form of broadband internet the online presence will magnify. Great deals on lightsabers and other awesome starwars promotions

Awaiting move-in date
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It is at Times Rather Scary

There may very well come a point in your life when you come to me and ask about the general experiences of being a parent. I would imagine this line of inquiry would occur around about the time you are on your 9 month wait for a little child of your own. In which case I am going to explain to you all of the marvelous features of being a parent. How parenting teaches you to love in ways that you had never before thought possible, how parenting makes you able to do things you would normally never be able to do and to be able to do it without the slightest hint of being bothered by it. I also, will likely interject a little bit of comic relief for you in a warning regarding your child's first few poops. I will tell you how being a father makes you feel so on top of the world that at times it seems as though nothing can get you down or slow you.
It is, at times, rather scary though. As I sit here watching you handle little bites of food and putting them to your mouth as you begin to chew them up with your gums and your two and a half teeth, I think to myself, wow this little guy sure is growing up quickly. It is scary to me to think that in just a flash of time you will be heading off to college, driving a car, starting your first job, having your first kid. The very idea of you not being right here where I can keep a steady watch on your activities is scary.
This encourages me to be certain that I equip you in every way with the ability to make good sound decisions in your life. The fact that I will not be able to hold your hand through every situation in your life makes me evaluate what I can do to insure that you are able to always create for yourself fantastic opportunity. It also, causes me to realize how important it is for me to teach you how to put all of your faith and trust into God the creator of the entire universe. It is the single most important thing in life to love the Lord with all of your heart, soul, body, and mind.
You are starting to stand and walk about without the assistance of holding on to something. This in itself is scary because you will quickly be running around, falling down, getting into things, etc. Oh, the great extra measures your mother and I will be in need of taking in order to insure you do not get into anything harmful to you.
Parenthood is by far the greatest experience that has ever occurred in my entire lifetime, and yet at moments as I see my little child getting bigger, accomplishing more, and becoming independent, it honestly scares me. Makes me proud! Creates within me a fantastic feeling of love.

Apparent Adventures

No one ever said that parenting would be easy. In fact, many kind persons with previous experience in the subject matter will be more than willing to offer you several examples of why this simply is not the case. When you begin to include the dynamics of an individual situation these difficulties begin to grow in exponential form. For example with our scenario in the magnificent world of parenting adventure, the mother goes out working nights to create a steady flow of income for the family. This is followed up by the father's contributions of fiscal help which are not so steady as they come in only every few months or so, but they are substantial giving substance for a longer duration. Dad stays home with the kiddo while mom is out earning a weekly pay with the exception of Tuesdays which is the one day that dad goes to school, attends classes, and attempts to keep all of his weekly class work up to date as he attends a full time college schedule by taking mostly online classes. All printing, library research, and lectures are scheduled out for Tuesdays alone.
Except for this week! With the absolute greatest of intentions the mother offers to work this Tuesday to help the boss out, and this would help earn her extra hours which would then translate into the family living in a slightly more comfortable setting for a couple weeks time. I admire her for her willingness to contribute so much and to take on this extra for the cause of the family. This does however, present me with a slight bit of a problem. Well, the grandmother steps in like an absolute champion, prepared with full armor and sword in hand like a knight riding on the strong white steed, which happens to be a green Honda Civic. A Babysitter! Ah yes, but so much more than that, an academic lifesaver to boot.
I suppose what I am really trying to say here is that no man is an island. Even more the case when a strongly tied family endures the struggles of daily living in such a harmonic form. Apparently parenting is not always easy. Although, it has become apparent that the extreme situations brought about by parenting also bring out a little something else also. Sometimes a little something else in others. It is always a great thing to embark on the great adventure that is the story for many a parent. It is also good to sometimes share this extreme adventure with others. Great men often stand on the shoulders of giants and giants often have great kids standing on their shoulders!


On a side note! Completely unrelated! I have created a tool bar. This tool bar has a very simple function which enables the user who has downloaded and installed it to be able to search through the Hiett family archives with much grace and ease. It is essentially a search bar that you can type in someone's birth date, death date, name, or something like that into and it will search through the Hiett archives only as opposed to the entire world of information such as bing and google do. This in essence makes it much simpler to find specific information related to individuals or situations directly related to the Hiett family. I hope friends and family members take the time to download and install this useful tool and I hope it serves great purpose in allowing them to stay more closely connected with relevant information about the family and to family photos as well.

Taking a Walk

For some time now you have been mastering the art of standing on your two feet under your own power. From the beginning you would hoist yourself up using the side bars on your crib and then hold on to them for support as you stood or slightly jumped in place. After a while of this you discovered that you could get yourself standing, then holding onto the side bar with one hand, you could lean over and pick up some toy that caught your attention and thereby be standing in your crib holding the bar in one hand and a toy in the other. Shortly thereafter you began letting go completely, as if to say "Look mom, no hands!" While doing this you would make motions which were likened to those of a surf boarder keeping his balance while riding on his board. Your ability to make subtle controlled falls in order to get yourself back down also quickly developed.

At this point you now walk around the parameter of your crib using the side rail for support as you make your trip around confines of the crib. This is quite amazing to all of us as you seem to be well on your way to walking anywhere under your own power. For this reason your mother and I have begun to work with you by holding your hands and getting you to take a few steps here or a few steps there. We got you a pair of shoes, which you really enjoy wearing because while they are on you, your full attention turns directed at pulling at the velcro strap and then putting it back down. I suppose the sound is something of an attention getter, and this process keeps you occupied for some large moments in time.

Your also beginning to get a little bit of air underneath your feet as you make you gentle little jumps at the side rail of your crib while watching whatever happens to be on the television. We are trying to locate a new place for us to live because our current arrangement is in very tight quarters, not allowing you ample room to move about on the floor. Our goal is to in the next few months move into a larger place with a thick plush carpeting that you will be able to crawl around or run around on without much fear of your hurting yourself when you have your occasional tumble. These tumbles are to be expected as a young one begins to fully learn the use of his legs and feet and works to fine tune the balance that is required to make this motion possible.

I am going to leave this post at this. And now we are going to have a little bit of father and son story time because I really just feel like reading to you. Perhaps "Green Eggs and Ham" will be a good selection for tonight. After that it will soon be time for you to turn in for the night.

How are we doing?

Every so often a person finds that it is best to make a bit of reflection and look at the course of things in how they exist. In this state of reflection it is good to ask questions and find where you are weak and where you are strong.

As part of this revelation I am here going to include a screen shot of an official domain appraisal by Go Daddy as of January of 2013. This blog is currently 9 months old and the domain http://jacob.hietts.info is now just over 6 months in age at this moment in time.

I am posting this record as a benchmark for future years and generations that the same appraisal may be once again updated and a measure will be made as to how successful this blog is and has been as a total functioning unit. Page views and domain values are all approximate evaluations of the level of success in which a web site, blog, or online community may gauge their activity.

Now that this benchmark has been posted I would mark a suggestion alongside it that a similar image of an updated value of the future be place alongside this image showing a 2013 and current year comparison post. I feel such statistics would be quite interesting for an individual such as myself to see in say thirty or more years from today.

As for your current development I can tell you that you will soon be making an appearance at the dentist office as your two bottom front teeth are quite well developed little chicklett teethers. You have just had your nightly a bath but a few hours ago and you are gently sleeping with the background noise from animated cartoon creations of the early 2000's. Ah Boy! This world you have to see. And this world you have to grow and explore in.

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Apparently A parent says so

This is the first post I have made for the New Year. Officially on the record your mother and I acquired a Ford Explorer today as a result of kindness from a member of your extended family. Again I affirm to you the importance of keeping people close to you as you progress through life. The way in which we present ourselves as people, the way in which we treat other individuals, and the effort you put into the ties that bind those people around you all have great effect on how positive results you will see.

On this day, you were introduced to Wade, your mother's step-father. Although, you yourself slept through the event entirely. I urge you to in the future be more social when your relatives are around you, although considering your age of only 9 months I suppose we can let you have a pass on this one. Wade is an interesting man and currently works as a crane operator for the construction of iron structures. As you age and develop I am sure you will get to know him much more.

You are now nestled down in your crib, sporting your dinosaur footie pajamas, happily asleep allowing your mother and I just a bit of time to enjoy a few television shows on NetFlix. These moments of quality time for the two of us draws shorter with the passing of time it seems, however love is a glue of our relationship that binds us together. We have you our boy, and very proud of you we continually are.

As of your 9 month checkup with the doctor you weigh now in excess of 20 Lbs. and you currently stand at a height of 2 feet 4 inches. You are really growing up quickly my little man. The doctor is impressed with your ability to maintain yourself at the higher end of the development scale as you make your progression through physical, emotional, and spiritual maturation. Containing some level of irony, he expressed this in the visit using the expression, "He is a little Doogie Howser M.D."
The irony being found in that this is a reference to a television show that was of significance during the time in which your parents were yet developing. It starred an actor named Neil Patrick Harris and as result with how each episode ended it ultimately encouraged me in my passion of recording things in a journaling method. This would also lead to the eventuality of current of my keeping of such a web log as this.