Six Days

We're six days into this whole parenting thing and I can say with a fair amount of confidence that we haven't yet done anything to really mess up our daughter's life or future. Go us. Norah still doesn't do very much. She spends a good deal of time lifting her arms up above her head and raising her up knees to her tummy. She also constantly changes the pace of her breathing, hiccups, and squeaks as she moves around. As I write this, she's flailing about on the couch beside me and grunting. Wait, now she stopped and appears to be sleeping. Apparently grunting that hard can be exhausting.



Dad and Jody came to visit this past weekend. They had a few days to kill between Grace's graduation from the University of Illinois-Chicago and a conference Jody is attending in DC this week. With Norah having only been alive for three days when they arrived, their visit was, of course, the first time she'd met any of her grandparents. We were very glad to have them here and thoroughly enjoyed their company. Seeing them each hold their first grandchild was, understandably, quite moving and memorable.



The first picture there shows Jody holding Norah whilst sporting a fancy new quilt made for her by my grams Kole. It matches the quilt that grams made for Sarah and I when we were married. How thoughtful and wonderful she is...

Sarah's mom comes to visit on the 17th. Justin and Carrie come in late July. My mom is coming sometime between now and September? Who else wants to come to the 'Shire for a visit? It's a lovely state in the summer.

The monotony of the NFL off-season has recently been broken in our house as we've been watching quite a few Nascar races and the playoffs for Lord Stanley's Cup. I'd forgotten what a totally BA sport hockey is. Watching all of these playoffs games makes me miss the summers I spent playing roller hockey in the church and high school parking lots back home. Ah, youth.

I realized the other day that I haven't offered up a "this is what I'm listening to this month" playlist on this blog like I had intended to do with every month this year. So it goes. I've never really been one for following through on long-term goals, anyway. The future is for suckers. Live in the now, you know?

But, for those of you who may be wondering, I've pretty much exclusively been listening to the new mewithoutYou album for the past month. The album is called "it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright" and has a lot of lyrics about fruits, vegetables, farming, and animals that are all actually metaphors for Jesus and stuff. Do yourself a favor and check it out: http://www.myspace.com/mewithoutyou

Here are some more pictures of the adorableness:



God is good.

Stay Gold!

MMK