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Kaeta is 10 months old today. Starting on her birthday, October 16, here are pictures of her from each month. I got as close as I could to the 16th of each month. You can really see her growing up!

A few months ago we were at the German restaurant in Walburg … <pause for mouth to water just thinking about it> … and I tried drawing a picture on a napkin of a moose head that was hanging on the wall. The catch was, I wasn’t allowed to watch what I was drawing — […]

Hello, there! Haven’t seen you in a while, how’ve you been? Somehow we went the whole month of July without posting anything here, so to make up for that, here are four new photo galleries. Splishy Splashy! In which Kaeta plays in a kiddie pool and goes to a water park. Pittsburgh ’06. In which […]

As many of you know, last Friday was my last day with the TCEQ. As I was walking across the parking lot to my car that afternoon, I was in a state of dumbfounded disbelief. It was so surreal to think that I was walking out of there for the last time — that I […]

Amalia June Ward was born at 9:27 pm on June 26, 2006. Isn’t she beautiful? She’ll be baptized this weekend. Keep an eye out for pictures….

Kaeta has had recurring ear infections, so today she got ear tubes. Thanks to a poster in the ear doctor’s office, I learned (more or less) how they work. Behind your eardrum, you’ve got 3 small bones — they have latin names, but on the poster they were called the hammer, anvil, and stirrup. Sound […]

It was a call I was not expecting. I don’t think any of us were. But nonetheless I knew exactly what it meant: packing up the car and setting out on a whirlwind trip to Kansas. And the reality of it didn’t sink in until the visitation, when I saw my Grandma lying so still, […]

…When Kaeta tried to help Mommy do the laundry? And she climbed into the laundry basket all by herself?? Well we weren’t quite quick enough with the camera to capture her actually climbing in, but honest to goodness, I sat there and watched her do it. She pulled herself up on the side, and oh-so-gracefully […]

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 […]