A New Leese on Life

Looks kinda like a blob at this point (9w1d). Approximate due date is 6/19/2010. Put a new counter on the left side of the page here <- so everyone can watch the clock with us.

I guess everyone has something in their life that vexes them. Mine is brakes. Yeah, like on your car. Although its not that they just annoy me. They are the bane of my existence. In fact, the lack of brakes has almost led to my demise. But that is another story (one that I had posted on the original version of this blog).

Anyway, my point is – right now, my brakes are broke. They are leaking fluid onto the pavement. Amy I worried? No, because this has happened before. Am I frustrated – you bet. I can’t keep up with the problems of the vehicles in our house. Its getting old. I keep thinking that I will eventually catch up. I will … right?

I can’t get enough of cool pics of my daughter. Probably not something new – but she is doing so many interesting things. For those that don’t have kids,

• The day your daughter says her first unprompted sentence, its amazing. When the words include your name – breathtaking
• The first time the kiddo breaks out into her “A-B-C’s” when you say, “Can you sing your ‘A-B-C’s?” – it blows your mind.
• WHY?

Because you have spent more than a year talking to this thing that does little more than eat, sleep and poop. To finally get this level of interaction – its like the family dog suddenly looking at you and saying, “That shirt makes you look fat.” It catches you off guard, and it is something that you didn’t think would ever happen.

I mean, come on, you’ve had that shirt forever.

As I was getting ready to leave this morning, EK looked at me, waved, and said, “bye bye da da”. It was a banner moment. The first time she has made a sentence. It rocked my socks off.