Monthly Archives: October 2006

Happy Halloween!

These two videos cracked me up: Baby Got Book (Warning: this is a parody rap music video. About the Bible.) John Piper is Bad (May only be funny if you know who John Piper is… a Christian author of the Reformed tradition)

A cell phone. Placed on top of the couch to keep out of reach of baby. Fell on me. A small pumpkin. Same deal as the cell phone. A singing robot dog. Flung into face (while asleep, mind you!) by baby. It was singing “Do Your Ears Hang Low?” at maximum volume (I’ve learned to […]

We are officially parents of a one-year-old. If you’d told me this time last year that this would happen, I’m not sure I would have believed you. Well, intellectually, sure — I’d have known you were right. But would I have believed you? No way. But nonetheless, a whole year has come and gone right […]

Dear Kaeta, Yesterday you turned one year old. I can hardly believe an entire year has gone by since I first held you in my arms, dazzled by my sweet little girl. I could not and sometimes still cannot believe God had given me a little girl. Before you were born I was convinced you […]

This may be her last time in this carseat.

Somehow a glass baby food jar made its way into our garbage disposal this week. The way I found out was this: Karianne called me into the kitchen because the disposal was making a funny noise. I carefully inserted my hand to remove the obstruction, then pulled out a bloody stump. Okay, that’s over dramatizing […]

Kaeta is walking a LOT now. Here’s a video with her walking, clapping, dancing, and then giving me five! [Download Video, 2.5Mb] Also, you know how you can cross your arms in an X to mean “love?” Karianne does that and sasy “I love you” to Kaeta, and now when we say “Kaeta, I love […]

A couple of weeks ago, I was literally seconds away from finishing mowing my front lawn when suddenly my lawnmower’s engine sort of… um… fell off. Apparently I had bent the crankshaft, which is bad. So the mower had been shaking, but I couldn’t tell why, so I just kept going, and eventually the bolts […]

When you forget to take a “before” picture, you’re stuck with whatever you can find. Here’s a picture of some friends of ours: (that’s Paul, Jamie, Stefani, Tiffany, Colin, and Dorkface) Try to ignore all of the people in that picture, and instead focus on how boring the walls behind them are. Now, compare them […]