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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 […]

Middle-of-the-night sleep hallucinations are really funny to me. Our first night in the hospital, I woke up in the middle of the night and went to the bathroom. Karianne was somewhat awake, so I asked her how she was doing. “I’m just sitting over here having contractions that wake me up. Each one is in […]

Kaeta Bernice Kurth was born on October 16 (just barely) at 12:33am. She was 8 lbs. even and 21 inches long. She looked like this: So, for those interested, here’s how that all went down. It starts with a whole lot of scratching. Starting around October 8, a Saturday, Karianne started to itch. Not just […]

I know people mean well, and most are just trying to make conversation, but we as a society have got to come up with more tactful things to say to a very pregnant woman. Why every person I pass in the hall feels obligated to make comments such as, “Wow, you’re huge!”, “You look like […]

Check out the “Photos” link at the top of this page for some pics from our first two baby showers. They were both great!

This is too weird. This morning I was listening to the radio, and one of the DJs made the claim that you see a cow every day. He said it could be a real cow or a picture of a cow, but you will definitely see one. I thought this was ridiculous — where, I […]

So last Saturday our neighborhood, Sarah’s Creek, held a neighborhood-wide garage sale. The idea was that the homeowner’s association would pay to advertise it, and all we had to do was drag our junk out into the driveway and sell it to suckers… er, passersby. Weeks ago, a lady who has lived around here for […]