vacations, babies and all in between

Its been a long time since our last post. To be honest, social networks like twitter, flickr, and facebook have pretty much taken over our external communication. They allow us to stay way more up to date with less buy-in. I can post a tweet in a few seconds and facebook pretty much runs itself. If you like the whole social network things, go "friend" us on facebook (Jonathan Duty and "Kerry Jo Kraushaar Duty"). You can also follow my twitter feed at http://twitter.com/jonathandut . I update it at least once a day. For our life in pictures go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonandkerry



That being said I think its import to try and maintain some sort of presence on this blog. So here is an update:

1) Yes, we are having a second baby! We found out a few weeks ago that it will be a girl and she is due in September. Haven't completely settled on names yet, as we are still coming to terms with the fact that we are actually going to do this again. Coming from a family of all boys, I should be even more useless than I was the first time around ;)

2) We just got back from our first non-Dallas vacation with Joshua. If you were following my twitter feeds you probably saw a few negative posts. We had a great time but there were definitely some challenges we hadn't anticipated including a surprise visit from the stomach flu fairy, me backing the van into the house a few hours before we needed to drive it 8 hours, and shaving around 3 hours off of Joshua's sleep schedule every day until he completely broke down. Aside from that it was great seeing Kerry's sister and Nashville and every second with Joshua was well worth it.

3) I'm still at Zattoo working hard to bring TV in languages I still can't understand to greater Europe. I love working at Zattoo, as after working at so many different types of companies I've decided I'm a startup/small company man. Even with all the turbulence in the economy right now, Zattoo is a perfect fit for me right now as it allows me to help build a small company while maintain some presence of financial stability to my family.

4) Joshua is surprising us at every turn. He can now count to 100 and can write numbers from 1-10. He can also spell most of our names using letter magnets, which I sometimes still can't do.

So thats about it from my end. Things are going well up here in the Arctic. As I said above if you want to keep a closer eye on us check us out on our respective social hangouts. And of course if you every happen to be in Ann Arbor you can always drop by ;)