Angie

Dearest Angie:

You are beautifully crafted masterpiece; wonderfully created. You are a loving, patient and generous wife, mother, and friend.  For these reasons and many more, I celebrate the day you were born.

Happy birthday!

Hon

My daughter calls me "Hon", short for "Honey". Angie calls me that all the time and Adaya has picked up on it. Ack!

"No Adaya. Daddy's name is 'DAD-DY'."

Text Birthday Party

Special thanks to my beautiful wife who organized a birthday party on my cell phone today.  Thanks also to all who sent me a text.

One

Here's my little sweetheart at the park the day after she turned one.  

Steps

Yesterday, Adaya took her first few steps.  She had just woke up from a nap and was too groggy and interested in what mommy had gotten from the store to realize that she wasn't holding on to anything as she took four or five little steps.  Well, after a couple steps, she was holding on the the grocery bag, but that wasn't providing anything beyond phsycological support.

June-uary

This June is cold, but don't take my word for it.

One Way to Have Fun

One of the ways Josiah likes to have fun these days...This time he actually untied them himself.

Big Brother

A very strange thing has happened very recently. Josiah has suddenly doubled in size--or so it seems. I guess it is just in comparison to his little sister or something, but man he just seems way older and bigger all of the sudden.He has been very cute towards his sister. This is a picture when he came with his grandparents to visit on Tuesday. He was very excited and gave her a little kiss.

We've been having to deal a bit with transitioning with this life change. Actually, it' probably got as much to do with the fact that Josiah hadn't seen much of his dad for five days. I spent most of today with him, building railroad track, playing and working outside, going to the park. We didn't even let the few sprinkles of rain bother us.

Home From Hospital

We're all home from the hospital--happy and well. Here's a shot of Adaya (ah DAY ah) in the recovery room.

Adaya Lee Smith

Adaya Lee Smith was born October 16, 2007 at 11:51 AM. She weighed in at 6 pounds 11 ounces and measured 20 inches in length.

She and her mommy are doing well.

Brave Boy With Clean Teeth

Today was Josiah's first visit to the dentist's office. He was a little nervous about the whole thing, but was super brave sat in the chair, went for a cool ride up and down, and opened his mouth the let the hygienist "count" and clean his teeth. He's got 10 on the top and 10 on the bottom by the way. It took a little more effort for him to open his mouth for the dentist, but he did it.

Lunatic

It's 2:20 AM, do you know where your wife is? Mine is outside looking at the moon. No, she not a lunatic, she's just trying to get some good photo's of the lunar eclipse.

Knight Rider

My friend Chris has brought back some memories. He posted a YouTube clip of the intro to Knight Rider. As an eight to twelve year old boy when the show was in it original series run, I loved it. I admit it, I got chills down my back when I just watched the intro. I'm sure if I watched a show now, I would get a major laugh at how lame it was, but man that show was cool when I was kid.

It also brings back memories because my Grandpa Corcoran was the one to introduce the show to me. As I recall, I was staying over at Grandma and Grandpa's and he said something like "Have you seen this show? It's got some car." It's one of the more vivid memories I have of him.

Fun Day

Angie and Josiah came and visited me downtown today. We had lunch and then went to the riverfront. Josiah and I ran through the big fountain--being careful not to get too wet since we were both fully clothed. Then we checked out the view of the river from the Hawthorne bridge. Josiah likes bridges. But alas, I had to go back to work.

Tonight we were all hanging out in the front yard on our new bench swing and then Josiah and I started playing catch with a tennis ball. It was the first time we've played catch with anything smaller then a rubber bouncy ball.

God blesses me so much through my family.

But Where Was I?

As Josiah gets older, his questions get more difficult to answer. The other day we where looking at an engagement picture of Angie and I. He said, "Look, it's a picture of mommy and daddy." I said, "Yup, that a picture taken before we were married."

"Where am I?" he asks.

"You weren't born yet."

"I was in mommy's tummy?"

"No, you weren't even in mommy's tummy yet."

"But, where was I?"

Anniversary

Angie and I have been married 8 years today. Too bad I feel too stressed and busy from work and other commitments to enjoy it much. I'm stressed out just trying to find some place for us to go for our getaway this weekend. I love this woman very much though and look forward to what the next 8 years will bring.

It's a GIRL!

Angie had an ultrasound this morning and we know that it is a girl. I'm pretty darn excited about that.

Why?

I knew this time would come. I've been dreading it for years. I knew I was not blessed in some special way that would allow me to slide around this particular cruel joke of human nature.

Josiah has entered into the stage in his life where he asks "why" to everything.

"Why is that car parked there?"

"Because our neighbors parked it there."

"Why?"

"Because they didn't have room in their garage I guess."

"Why?"

"I don't know."

"Why?"

Aaahhhh!!!


OK, I haven't really been dreading it that much, but I thought my blog needed a little drama. It is interesting how "why" is starting to just become a default response.

"Josiah, do you want some ice cream?"

"Wh--yes."

Cellus Phonus

Well, I took a step into the late 20th century yesterday and purchased my first cell phone. We've had a family cell phone for a year and a quarter that mostly would stay with Angie, or more specifically in her purse in the car. We decided to get one for me because I'm going to be going out of town for a week in a while. Probably more important than that though, it confused people too much that Angie and I shared just one phone. ;O)

2 + 1 + 1

Josiah seems to be into math these days. If you ask him how many of something there is, instead of saying "four", he'll say, "Two and one and one."