Familia Black

Today Tyler enjoyed his first meal, an exquisite feast of rice cereal! Here’s a video showing how he reacted to his first real food:

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Here’s a short clip of us having some fun outside as a family, with Tyler’s new toy. As you will see, Tyler’s becoming quite the little magician.

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Today’s testing went fairly well. For some reason we didn’t do free sparring, which is too bad, since I really enjoy that aspect of it. Hopefully we’ll do it next time.

It took me a few tries to break the board, since the Grandmaster wanted me to break it at head height (rather than waist high as practiced), and used only one board holder instead of two, which requires a more advanced technique known as “speed breaking”. He seems to like to throw me curve balls like that at testing time. In my multiple tries I sent the instructor careening into the mirror a couple times (the flying side kick has a lot of power behind it, and is frequently seen in movies).

This was Tyler’s first time coming to watch Daddy at TKD testing, and he didn’t complain, and was very happy! Enjoy the video!

(It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything, because we’ve been too busy with everything going on right now. I will be posting another video of Tyler soon as well.)

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Tyler is four weeks old now, and growing and changing every day. He has managed to turn himself over, and can support the weight of his head and move it around.

We hope you get a laugh out of watching this exclusive video that reveals a little more about what’s going on in our home!

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It’s been two weeks since little Tyler was born, and things are going well. His parents are doing fine, even with all the side-effects of massive sleep deprivation . He especially enjoys spending time with Mommy, who works very hard to keep him clean and fed. Here are some highlights from his first two weeks. He grows and changes really fast!

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Last week my brother Jason was flown out to Los Angeles to perform piano for a segment on the Ellen Degeneres show. You can get more info about him at his website, http://jasonlyleblack.com. Please share this video with family and friends!

We have a new addition to our family that we are very excited about! Here are some photos and video clips from the hospital, when he was less than 24 hours old!

Here’s a fun little video of a song Jason arranged and played, and I filmed and edited it for him. You can also see it directly on YouTube here. Enjoy!

We took a bunch of family photos Thanksgiving day, and here are a couple of Laura and I. Jason snapped the picture and I did all the post-production in Adobe Lightroom. Isn’t Laura beautiful? Continue reading »

Testing is here once again, and this time I tried for my High Brown Belt. The morning of testing I woke up with severe back and neck spasms, which made testing really difficult and painful, but luckily I still made the cut. I’m the one with the white headband.

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