Milk...

Isn't it just insane that we (as women) can produce milk that can sustain life for so long. Crazy. Some people produce so much milk that it spurts out of them at inopportune times and causes much trouble for Mom and the drowning baby. I wonder if that ever happens in the "wild"? Do little goat mamma's squirt their babies in the head with excess milk? Really, I think that's just fantastic and wish it would have happened with me. I would have said something like, "Bri, if you don't stop crying you're going to get it right in the face again." Ha! Vengeance would be mine! She cried so much that she would probably get used to being sprayed in the head and use the milk shots as a type of milk fountain...that is how smart she is, and crafty too. Huh. That's all I have to say on the milk subject for now.

Brianna

She will be a year old in 14 days. Time for her to get a part-time job and start paying rent.

Crazy Baby Bri

Brianna Rose is crazy. Twice she woke up last night and decided she was done sleeping for the time and wanted to sing, oh yes sing. Pretty dang funny to walk in and find her sitting in the dark in the middle of her crib trying to be the next rock star. Her lyrics are fantastic and she is always on tune. I think tonight we might just have a baby concert, start her off right.

She also likes to scrunch up her nose and make Darth Vader sounds by breathing in and out very slow. She's insane. She's great!

New baby, Clint and things...

This is a post from Clint's Blog....I am glad he can admit his tendency towards: "selfishly myopic wallowing in self-pity". He's forgiven. All is well with the world and there is another fantastic little soul in it to love and cherish...and I got to witness it due to the said wallower watching the bee-bee. Good boy.

Yes!!!! Today, the weather is beautiful! Clear, blue Colorado skies, enough breeze to keep things moving around and, at 65 degrees at 8:15 a.m., a perfect day to get out! Just like I'd hoped for. Problem: I've made fairly elaborate and multi-layered plans to volunteer at a benefit trail-building project then go climbing in Eldo with a couple of friends. The 'problem' part is--wife left suddenly last night in order to oversee the launch of her friend's baby out of amniotic fluid and the mythic safety of the womb and into this more colorful and interesting, albeit dangerous world--ex-vitreo. Fine. I knew this was coming. Makes sense. So, I gotta stay home and be daddy and supportive husband...my job. Love it, usually. Today, however--having trouble not being selfishly myopic and wallowing in self-pity. Caught myself two or three times being such, and dutifully beat myself into an appropriate submission. That worked for a while. Wish I wasn't so slow at seeing the Big Picture and putting my own petty 'needs' away. I guess it'd be easier if this wasn't just the latest frustrating installment in a grand series of the universe to conspire against every plan I've made to have a little fun...(Oops. There I go again. See how easy it is?! Eveyone join in! Let's feel sorry for ourselves and scowl-like-we're-gonna-die-if-we-don't-get-what-we-want, on '3'. Ready? 1, 2...)

Life...

I got to experience one of the most amazing aspects of the human experience this morning...the miracle of life. It is so unreal that any of us are even here with all of our parts put together in the right place. I got to see my dear friend Kristin bring into this world an adorable little soul in the form of a baby boy. Through the laughter, tears, excrutiating pains and with the help of a host of people Kristin and Jason are now proud parents and I am once again in amazement of how God made us and a woman's ability to grow a child in her belly.

Wow! Loved every sleepless moment of it!

Had to move to Boulder to see a bear...

We moved to Boulder the end of July. Even though I've lived in Colorado my entire life I've never seen a bear outside of the zoo walls...until today! Bri and I were on a morning hike when, oh yes, we saw not just one bear but a big mama bear and a baby cub. I wish we could have gotten a group photo but the bears were to busy for the likes of us. We sat and watched, Bri laughed and screamed in delight (I think she thought they were large dogs and seeing that no one was around to fetch them she then may have thought we could take them home and call them our own). Not so, we don't have enough berries for bears. We can't even keep fish alive.

Amazing!!!! They just live out there all year long, no rent to pay for a place with a view. Wow. Love it! Baby is crying gotta go