This is my backyard. We like our house a lot, but this was the clincher for us when we were looking. To be able to wake up each morning and have lots of green to look at is something that I try not to take for granted. We’ve seen all sorts of wildlife out here – a few mornings ago, there were a couple of deer running out in the open. Flashbacks from Bambi hit me and I felt like yelling “Don’t go out into the meadow!!!” Just kidding.
Now that I work out a few mornings a week, I get to see the sunrise more often. This was the most pristine thus far. If we ever have to move, we’re going to miss it like crazy.
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Lucy is now:
1- Playing with toys
2- Holding her pacifier more than she drops or spits it out
3- Sleeping without the swaddle
4- Talking to herself more than she talks to us
5- Wakes up crying as much as she wakes up happy (at least for me)
6- Still not quite sitting up. It’s a bit comical to try.
7- Possibly teething
8- Sucking her thumb occasionally
9-Sucking on my arm right now (?)
10- CUTER than ever.
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Our daughter is much like her mommy in that she is very expressive. Sometimes she’s happy. Sometimes she’s intrigued. Sometimes she responds with talking. Sometimes not-so-happy talking. She gets into a little argument with her mommy in this one over who loves whom how much, and then proceeds to try to convince us (unconvincingly) she’s tired of being entertained. Enjoy the clip as Lucy demonstrates emotional confusion.
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Now, watch the video again, and notice the face that Lucy makes at her mommy about 2 seconds before she says her first word. It looks as if she’s thinking “Are you ready for this?” I laugh every time.
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To anyone whose heart sunk when you couldn’t view the video I posted last night, I’m so sorry! It’s obvious this is my first post to Youtube. The problem has been corrected, so come back and watch my little girl enjoy her little gym!
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Occasionally, I write something in my little Lucy journal that I would like to share with everyone. Here’s this morning’s:
“My most consistent thought when I look at Lucy is “I don’t deserve her.” I’m so grateful for God giving us this little life to take care of. And it makes perfect sense to me right now that I’m a steward of that responsibility – that she’s really not ours, but God’s, and that He has charged us with the job of helping her become who He has designed her to be.”
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My title is a bit presumptuous – I don’t pretend that the word “You’ve” represents more people than I can count on my fingers. But, I have been asked a couple of times when I would finally come out with the post that starts something like this:
Guess what? I HAVE A BABY!!! She’s a GIRL!!! Her name is Lucy Madeline, and she was born 7 weeks ago!! Little anti-climactic.
But I will tell you that she is a blast. I am loving my role as the comfortable father on whose chest Lucy loves to fall asleep. I always look forward to coming home and seeing her cute little (big) cheeks. So, rather than tell you all of the stuff I should have written last month, I’m going to start with some fun stuff from more recently.
First, some things about Lucy. Lucy is a very alert little girl. She senses what’s happening around her. There are a few notable exceptions. When we had a thunderstorm last week, Kelly and I were more startled by the thunder than she was. She also completely ignored the fact that I vacuumed her room this morning while she was laying peacefully in her crib.
She’s also a BIG smiler. This started about two weeks ago. She usually either gives us a wide smile with no noise or a tall, open-mouthed smile with lots of noise. I can hear her right now talking to her mommy. Which brings me to another point…
Part of the reason I haven’t updated my blog in so long is that I don’t want to miss a second! No guilt to those who’ve asked for updates, but it seriously takes a lot to pull myself….
It’s now about 45 minutes later. Like I said, irresistable.
Second, a few things about our new dynamics as a family. Obviously, we’re not getting the kind of sleep we’re used to. Our days start at 3:00am, no, maybe it’s 5:00, uhhh, sometimes 6:30. We’ve tried to get onto some kind of predictable schedule, but when your baby girl is unpredictable, so goes your schedule. I certainly don’t mind the fact that I’m ready to hit the sack by 8:30pm most days. But life with Lucy is way more fun than a predictable schedule, so the burning eyes and more frequent Starbucks runs aren’t going to override the good stuff. In fact, when I do hear her cry and am a bit unhappy to be getting out of bed at such an hour, my groggy scowl quickly turns to a smile as soon as I see her little face. Even when she’s crying. Cause she’s a cute cryer.
Here are a couple of pictures for your enjoyment. I’ll be sure to write more often, and for those who are not as interested in hearing about baby stuff, I have some posts coming about music, politics, etc.
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…I SHOULD be a DADDY!
But, you know, it’s kind of funny. My academic/logical brain tries to convince me to not capitalize the words in that first sentence. So many of my friends have passed this milestone that I’ve had the idea in my head that this isn’t such a big deal in the scheme of everyone else’s life. I’ve downplayed it when talking to others because “of course I’m excited” and “yes, my life is about to change forever,” but it’s just like everyone else’s.
But today, the day before my little girl is going to be born (we’re scheduled to begin inducing at the fine hour of 5:30am tomorrow morning), I have experienced the excitement of anticipation for being a Dad for this particular little girl. She’s going to be MY little girl! I’ve been waiting to meet her for 9 months, and I will get to meet her TOMORROW! I don’t care how commonplace it is for people to have children and how much I can separate my emotions by looking throughout history and seeing how people just reproduce. I am excited to be the father of MY daughter.
So, my next post will most definitely be about the birth experience of having my daughter. Time to get some sleep!
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I just finished reading a bunch of my friends’ blogs for the first time in a while. I call it blatching up. Actually, I just made that up. And I’ve decided it sounds way too much like a cross-breed between wretching and throwing up. Not a good image match for the nice time I just had reading my friends’ blogs. Never mind.
So, I just decided that it was time to write. I have nothing in particular to tell you about except that I’m really not happy about our future president, I’m very excited about my future daughter (she’s already my daughter, I just can’t touch her yet), and I’m really loving the fall.
Don’t you love the fall? I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who doesn’t. It’s that cozy feeling. That desire to get a fire going and snuggle up next to someone you love. The glory of colors on rolling hills in middle TN. The smoke in the air smell. All of these for some ironic reason make me feel alive, expectant, excited. It’s ironic because things die in the fall. Trees lose their leaves. Animals hibernate. Everything goes inside or into dormancy. But for me, I always think that things are going to get better in the fall.
Maybe it’s the fact that Christmas is coming. Maybe I just really love football (which I do). Or college basketball (which I do). Maybe beacause it was colder, I received more squeezes and hugs at home during the fall and so I just looked forward to it every year. I don’t know. But I can’t get around the fact that I just feel like life is, or is going to be, good in the fall.
So this year, I can truthfully say that things are really GOOD. God has blessed me with a wife I love more than I could ever write. He’s giving me a daughter – something that tears me up every time I take the time to think about it for more than a few seconds. He’s taught me how to be a loving person. He’s taught me humility. And when I think about it, these are all things that have nothing to do with the failing economy or the future president.
Yep, I love the fall. So, I guess when you begin a post and you don’t know what to write, eventually, you’ll get to the heart of what you want to say.
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