Monthly Archives: May 2006

Lutheran friends (and anyone else interested), I encourage you to read this post by a pastor we know in Pittsburgh. Some good devotional practices have been mostly dropped in our churches because they’re deemed “too Catholic.” But we are free to, and Luther encourages us to, make the sign of the cross, go to private […]

She’s getting around pretty well doing the “army-man” crawl. Also, we discovered that she laughs whenever you make a slurping noise! Yes!! [Download Video, 3.7Mb] Oh, yeah — SHE IS STANDING UP IN HER CRIB AT DAY CARE! Just this week she started doing it. She pulls up all by herself. Tonight at home she […]

Yesterday, a very interesting guy came to our door. His name is Oz (rhymes with “toes”), and he’s an art student from Israel, soon to transfer to U.T. He and some friends had tried selling their art in galleries, but the gallery’s cut was really high, so they decided to try selling door-to-door. How enterprising! […]

My baby girl will be seven months old on Tuesday. I’m very baffled by this because I swear she was only born three weeks ago. I just can’t believe how fast the time has gone. Yet at the same time the past seven months have felt like a lifetime — of course! — Kaeta’s lifetime! […]

I made a bookplate! I don’t know why, I just decided I wanted to. The woodcut is by Albrecht Durer, the Reformation-era artist who also painted some famous praying hands you may have seen. I just liked the phrase “Ex Libris Rhinoceros” — it sounds like a band name or something. And I imagine a […]

This week I went to the dentist and had a panel taken. Nothing says “I live in a dystopian dreamworld” like having clamps hold your head still while you bite down on a hunk of plastic and big white rectangles rotate around your head, shooting your skull full of x-rays. Anyway, I went to the […]

New Photos! Click the “Photos” link at the top of this page (or click here) for new pictures of Kaeta, mostly from Easter. We entered one of them in a national “cute baby contest,” so we’ll keep you posted if we hear anything about that!

Here is a video demonstrating an easy way to peel the skin off of a potato. (Warning: the video is all in loud, exuberant Japanese.) A few nights ago, I gave this a try. First, you make a thin cut around the center of your potato. Then, you put it in boiling water: I left […]