Eating johnny jump-up

For those of you who have seen Liam in action on his dad's lap, you know this is not on account of muscle deficiency or leg strength. He's a pretty funny little guy. He just likes to eat. Looks like his cousins could give him a few tips about how to get the most out of his toys.

Brady's Research (aka his new life)

So I've got my schedule set for this semester. I've only got two classes so the bulk of my time will be spent on my research projects, which I am extremely excited about. I realize nobody reading this will be nearly excited as I am about the topics, but these will be taking over my life so you at least get to know what they're about.


The first is through a grant from the Navy and is about multitasking in dynamic environments. What that means is something like, how do you do lots of different types of tasks at the same time when those tasks are changing and when the environment in which you're performing those tasks is also changing? how do you select people who are good at doing that kind of stuff? how do you train people to be good at doing all of that?) If you want to see more of the basics, go to http://www.iopsych.msu.edu/SPL/index1024.htm.

The other, which is REALLY cool (cutting edge stuff) is just picking up, so there's no cool website to see. It's through a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and is about how teams (and the individuals in the teams) best change learning strategies in a dynamic environment. What's extra cool about this is that we're going to be getting some hard, quantitative strategy modeling into the computer (for future programs) that should be really useful pretty much everywhere in the universe that there are people trying to learn stuff, or so we hope.

This is cool stuff because both projects (especially the Air Force one) are very theoretical (meaning they've got basic frameworks that are capable of being developed into a lot of different things in applied settings) but will also be implemented in very applied ways in at least two branches of our country's military as soon as we're done.

Dr. Liam

I don't know if it was on purpose, but it kind of looks like Liam and Mom conspired to go for the old Cambridge professor look... if not that, then maybe the studious Harry Potter, complete with authentic forehead scar. Either way, he's cute.

Brady's 1st day of school

Today was the first day of classes for Brady. His backpack has been packed for days and he couldn't have been more ready. He'll choose his year-long research projects this week.

gabe's garage

This might look like Dani and Gabe standing in front of our garage. What you're ACTUALLY seeing is Dani and Gabe standing in front of Gabe's private estate (which, if measured by International Bunny Units, is I'm sure something like 12,000 square feet. Lucky rabbit).

Love him

Great Lakes

This morning we decided that we were tired of cleaning/organizing/painting/doing the move-in thing, so we took off to the beach. We took the 1.5 hour drive to Grand Haven on the coast of Lake Michigan to do some exploring and loved it.



This first picture is mostly for Grandma Flinders and Jug. We couldn't decide if they were calling the pottery names or if that meant that the ceramics were extra cool.
Liam was a huge fan of the water. A good sign for his future kayaking days.
Popeye and DadBelow- looking upstream. The boardwalk went from the lighthouse for a couple miles into town.
Popeye goes Danish.

Find his footprints.



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