Monthly Archives: November 2005

Another cute thing I keep forgetting to post… 39 weeks 43 weeks

A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. –Carl Sandburg This is pretty overdue, but for those who made a guess in the baby pool, here are the results: Link. We decided to name the baby after whoever won, so thanks to all the guys who guessed wrong! You saved our little […]

Kaeta’s favorite song (so far — she’s only heard a few) is apparently the Bob Marley classic “No Woman, No Cry.” I found this out because she was crying inconsolably, and that was the song that popped into my head to sing to her (for obvious reasons), and she immediately stopped crying and became happy […]

For Kaeta’s baptism, she received this picture frame: It’s very nice of course, but note the sticker on the glass: Now, exactly what sliver of the picture frame market doesn’t know that you can personalize the frame with your own photo?? This frame manufacturer spent money having that sticker designed, printed, and applied to its […]

This Sunday, November 13, Kaeta will be baptized. This has gotten me thinking about baptism, what it means, should she really be baptized as an infant when she won’t really understand what’s happening, etc. In the Lutheran church, baptism is considered a sacrament — a sacred act, instituted by God, “in which there are certain […]

Before I begin the saga of how Kaeta spent her first week out of the womb in the hospital’s Neonatal ICU, I’d better give an update: Kaeta is acting healthy, eating well, and gaining weight. However, while she was in the NICU after being born, the doctors took an x-ray and noticed a growth near […]