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Back by popular demand! I want to personally thank you all for your gracious kudos about my blogging. Okay…enough about me!

Lucy is nuts…. Are all babies so nuts? Maybe they are, but I guess parents just forget….it must be a survival thing, kind of like the pain mothers go through when giving birth. If they remembered how painful it is and then how nutty they are no one would have more than one.

Okay…how many days does it take for a 7 month old to transform their sleep patterns by twelve hours? Sorry, no punch line! This is a real question. How long does it take to shift the sleep patterns of a 7 month old by twelve hours? I’m not really asking for my sake, I’m asking for Tricia. She’s on Lucy duty and I’m responsible for Cooper. (Who’s kidding whom here? Tricia is responsible for both kids, but it’s my job to get Cooper to school on time which is a big job…..six year olds don’t like to brush their teeth and when they finally do they are normally wearing a nice coating of tooth past on their school uniform which requires either emergency surgery, or a change of shirt.)

We had our first “post placement” visit today. It went well, though it is hard to have a serious conversation with professional people when the baby keeps acting all cute and stuff. Really! What nerve Lucy has being all smiley and giggly during our interview. (Actually we told Lucy we would take her out for ice cream if she smiled and laughed a lot and made us look good.)

Oh…here is another one for you. How many minutes does it take to get smashed peas out of petite little Vietnamese nostrils? I don’t have the answer yet, but give me a day or two and I’ll let you know.

Have any of you ever experienced the genius that is called the “bumbo seat”? This is an amazing chair made of rubberized foam or something. This little jewel allows Lucy to sit up all by herself, and be stable too. I think we could make a bundle if we made some for adults and sold them to bar owners, however we would have to change the name from “bumbo” to “dumbo”.

For those of you that didn’t know it, last Sunday was take your kid to work day, and since I’m an Episcopal priest I thought I would participate. In hind sight this ended up to be a poor career move. I had this great sermon all prepared, and apparently not a soul heard a word I said (except for the one blind person and the two people who sit further towards the front of the church than Tricia. There I was offering the sermon of a lifetime. If they gave out Pulitzer Prizes for sermons this would have been a shoe in! This sermon was powerful, but apparently not as powerful as Lucy. There I was up in the pulpit being all priestly and everyone (except for the aforementioned three) had their eyes glued on Lucy’s every move, squeal, and smile. They didn’t hear a word I said! At the announcement time I carried Lucy into the pulpit and started my sermon over…...taught them a lesson.

Well maybe I have it all wrong…….. Maybe they really have been listening to me over all these years………. Yep! I’ve always said if you want to experience Christ, all you have to do is look into the heart of a child.

Lucy is doing great. She had her first trip to the doctor’s office and she left with a blue ribbon. Cooper is doing well too. One is his recent memorable quotes…. “Even though Lucy is loud and wakes me up at night, I’m still glad that she’s my sister!”

Peace, Kirk

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