Finally...An Update.

Well, I've been remiss about giving loads of updates these past months... for several reasons.

1. I feel a lot of pressure to only blog about interesting thoughts or stuff that goes on in our lives.  To be frank, these such thoughts and/or events have been sparse.  Outside of the highlights in our life like our child ALMOST finding her feet, developing in dexterity and small motor skills, there isn't a lot going on.

2. I'd like to be moderate about talking about our kid - for your sake.  Heaven knows it can get old hearing about someone else's kid all the time.

3. Our kid is the best ever, and I don't want to make you feel bad (and yes, I'm well aware that just by typing these words, I'm jinxing myself and we're bound to have sleepless nights, spit-up on the shoulders of every shirt I own, and an inconsolable, fussy child...).  Seriously, she's so awesome - these things are rare in real life.

4. Being a mom is so wonderful (and exhausting) that my efforts are constantly divided (i.e. "Do I play with Keira, make dinner, clean our house, do laundry, or chronicle my thoughts and dreams at the computer for a little while?").  Life seems to take over very often.


But... here's a quick update.  We're doing well.  Keira is awesome, happy, delightful, sleeps well, and is a joy to my spirit.  The cutest kid you'll ever see, somehow, she gets more beautiful every day.  She's HUGE.  I keep telling her that she needs to learn how to walk this week because she's breaking my arms.  While I know the tradeoff is that I'll be chasing after her, my arms could use a break and my thighs could use the workout.  My guess is that she's almost 17 pounds.  She's just in the past few weeks only started to slow down her growth from the last month in utero - gaining almost a half a pound a week.

It's funny how our perspectives change.  We are excited by the strangest things now.  Frequently, the phrase, "Tell Daddy what happened today," to refer literally to things like, "Keira slept for an hour today," or "Keira almost put her pacifier in her own mouth today."  Yeah.  We're boring now.  Maybe we always were, but now.  No doubt.  But, we have a kid to entertain us and a lovely family!