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My 2-year-old son, William, is a true Italian.

Today he took a half-gallon container of olive oil from the kitchen counter and downed a few gulps. After being corrected by mom, he proceeded to ask for bread and vinegar (assume balsamic).

He has the ingredients right, but we need to work on preparation.

A week from now my family and I will be collecting our baggage at the Seattle Tacoma airport after a one way flight from Atlanta. That’s right, we are moving. This was decided back in October. Among the reasons is a strong desire to be closer to family. Seeing family now includes lots of time off work and some expensive plane tickets.

I am looking forward to living in Seattle. Some of my coworkers here think the rain is going to be too much to handle. I don’t think so. I plan to outdoors as much as possible, especially mountain biking. I think it will be a very positive change.

Getting ready to move has been crazy, especially with a newborn. We would have waited longer, but a great job opened up that I decided I should jump on. One of the challenges has been managing all of the tasks that have to be done, and by whom. It all started to feel like a hectic project that was falling behind. Oh, wait… that is exactly what it was!

That is when I realized I should treat the move like the project.  We setup a free personal Basecamp project to help us track the milestones and tasks. It has been great. It works especially well for us because we are both at our computers so much during the day. Now we have a handle on just how behind we actually are.

Our family grew by one today. Aaron Benajmin Tomasini was born April 12, 2007 at 3:51 PM. He was 7 lbs., 5 oz., 20 3/4″. It is amazing to me to see the miracle of new life, and to think of the great potential that is wrapped up in this wonderful package.

Grandma arrived yesterday to help out, which ended up being very fortunate since we were expecting Aaron to be delivered next week.

Aaron’s big brother William (almost 2) is getting used to the idea of having a little brother. Coming to the hospital to see mom and his new baby brother was a bit much at first. Luckily, the hospital has a McDonald’s inside. Eating a happy meal with daddy really made a difference.

I have uploaded a couple of photos. I should be adding more to the set over the next few days.