Archive for 2008

Christmas Letter 2008

Here’s an impersonal Christmas letter from the Gibby family: http://www.curtisgibby.com/christmas2008 I tried my best to make it interesting and somewhat interactive — have fun reading it!

Posted by Curtis Gibby on December 23rd, 2008

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Why Can’t Wii Be Friends?

We bought ourselves a Nintendo Wii for Christmas, but because Sarah’s brother and sister have been in town for Thanksgiving, we opened it early so the whole family could enjoy it. And enjoy it we did.   The first game that comes with the system is Wii Sports, which we used a lot the first […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on November 29th, 2008

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Standing for Something

At ten months, Nathan has been learning to stand on his own. At first, he didn’t trust himself on his feet.   As soon as he realized he was up alone, he’d immediately sit down — but it was a controlled sit.   So we would distract/bribe him with a treat or toy and he’d […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on November 27th, 2008

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Pandora Rox!

A while back I wrote about the web service I was using to listen to music at work, MediaMaster.   (It’s also much better now than I imply in that blog entry — they now have a newer Flash-based browswer service that’s not slow and clunky, my main complaints before.) But a few weeks ago, […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on November 14th, 2008

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Early-morning musings of a 9-month-old

Based on real events of the morning of Nov. 1, 2008 What’s this? I’m awake all of a sudden.   Judging by how dark it still is, probably about 4:30 in the morning.   So long as I’m up, the rest of the family might as well be.   Let’s start wailing to see if […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on November 1st, 2008

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PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ!

My family’s always had an affinity for the film Young Frankenstein — we’d always get a laugh by saying “What knockers!   Oh, thank you!” or “Frau Blucher {horse whinny}”.   I even caught myself mentally referring to a kid dressed up like Frankenstein’s Monster as a “little zipper-neck” at our ward party the other […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on October 27th, 2008

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A Change Would Do Me Good

After more than 5 years working graveyards and weekends in news, I decided that I was ready for a more family-friendly schedule.   I started looking for a new job, either in or out of the journalism industry, and last week I found it through a Craigslist ad.   It was for a PHP/MySQL developer […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on September 20th, 2008

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Baby update

You’ve all been asking yourselves, “Where’s our 7 and a half month old update on Nathan Gibby?”   Right here, that’s where. Nathan has become a very busy baby.   He got into the commando scoot about a month ago, but now he’s full-on into crawling, and he’ll go anywhere in the room if you […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on September 5th, 2008

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Breaking the Habit *

Since Audrey was a very young baby, she has sucked her thumb.   It was great for us when she was tiny, because it meant she could comfort herself and stay asleep all night.   No 2 a.m. feeding for that 7-month-old!   (You hear me, Nathan?!) But for the last year or so, it […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on August 27th, 2008

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City Girl

We had a great time camping with the Gibbys at Box Elder Campground near Mantua this week.   Audrey had a ton of fun running around with her second cousins the Shaw kids.   This was her first-ever camping trip. I realized that I’m raising a city girl when we were walking down a little […]

Posted by Curtis Gibby on August 18th, 2008

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