Checking In

Yeah, I know. It's been a while. I do think about blogging almost every day when things come up and I think "I need to tell the internet about that." But it's always when I'm in the car or the shower or someplace where a computer is completely inaccessible.

...Not that there are actually that many things in the shower that I feel the need to tell you about...but you get the idea.

So here's a really random fast update because when I am near a computer, it's because I'm at work and completely swamped with things to do.

• Button turns 4 months old this week. She's going through a growth spurt and eating us out of house and home. Consequently, we're starting cereal and soon other solids. I guess the days of odor-free diapers are quickly coming to an end.
• After a bout of food poisoning over a week ago, my milk supply is finally starting to show up again. There's no way I'm going to be able to catch up to her eating habbits now, so we've been forced to suppliment with formula.
• She's babbling now. Blah, Blah, Blah. She wakes up talking to herself and goes to sleep chattering. We know she's asleep after the noises start sounding like yawns and get quieter and longer until they eventually drift away. But if there's something to complain about, she'll give you an earful. Gripe, gripe, gripe, it's like getting a lecture from a very long-winded teacher.
• J is trying to get her to say "Dada" and each time he says "Can you say Da-Da? Da-Da??" she looks at him and laughs, like "You silly little man."
• I have a new addiction. The clearance racks of the baby section in Dillards. Yikes.
• Button was dedicated this past sunday at church. She got lots of "oohs" and "awwws" and looked adorable in her flouncey dress. Pictures hopefully coming soon. She slept through the whole thing, which is her way when things get loud. We were right in front of the speakers that broadcast to a 10,000 person auditorium. I don't know how she does that.
• Congrats to LEIGH who had her baby on Groundhog Day!!! I hope to get to see little Madelyn soon!
• Congrats to TODD & KATHY who are having a baby sometime in the next 8 months or so!
• This Whole Mess absolutely disgusts me. It's a CARTOON, people. GET OVER IT and have a little self-control. Having someone poke fun at your religion - which, by the way, has been going on for centuries with EVERY RELIGION KNOWN TO MAN - is absolutely in no way a reason to start KILLING, VANDALIZING and/or RETALIATING in the completely inappropriate manner we have seen so far. That is sick and unjustifiable. Muhammad himself would be embarrassed to be associated with this kind of violence.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to return to work. After which, I must go burn down Canada as retribution for South Park.