The better looking 2/3rd's of our Family

Here are a few cute pictures of my dear wife and my dear baby Adah, all dressed up for church this Sunday. This dress came compliments of Grandma Patti and is VERY cute :) She also has a few others that as she wears we'll maybe try to post some pictures of those as well. Adah is starting to like church quite a bit. She likes to say hi to people there. She's taken to saying to just about everyone she sees in the grocery store as well. It's pretty cute hearing her little voice say "Hi". She actually says "Hello" sometimes too which is really dang cute. Among her other accomplishments, she now knows what a doggie says as well as a kitty.


She's getting to be pretty smart, and says quite a few words, and is starting to put them together. Among her individual words she now says are: Mama, Dada, Pop (which is Grandpa Ackermans name), dog, hi, hello, baby, ball (which is sometimes bop), meow, ruff, @!#* (which is the sound she makes whenever shes pooing in her pants, tooting, or if we ask her "what a poo poo says), and her favorite word/phrase, "what's that?" 'What's that' usually means she wants whatever it is she's pointing at, but its still cute. The other day she said "what's that dog" while pointing at the Ackermans dog. And today we were playing ball and she pointed at me holding the ball and said "Dada ball". So that was cute.

Anyway, that's about all of the cute things that have happened lately, we'll try to keep this updated regularly so that our 4 or 5 some odd regular readers aren't disappointed :)

Lanny out

Adah's Valentine Message

Just wanted to post a cute video of our baby girl Adah. You'll hear in here that she knows the answer to the question of "What does a poo-poo say?". Pretty cute :) You can definitely tell she has my DNA.

Lanny

And You Thought Valentine's Day Sucks When You're Single...

Today we discovered we were overdrawn in our bank account. That was dumb. That also meant our Valentine's Day plans were shot. No romantic evening out on the town, hand-in-hand, as we'd (okay I'd) been picturing it for weeks.

So we had to wing it.

You know how everyone talks about spontaneity being the spice of life...the simple times are the best times...and all that kind of stuff?

Well they're wrong.

First we decided to watch Across the Universe because it had arrived from our Netflix queue. We thought, "What could be more fun on a Valentine's Day night than a little Julie Taymor action?"

Yeah, it basically sucked.

Then we thought, "Well--maybe we can watch Lost instead. Who doesn't love some mystical island loving?" So we called my parents to TiVo it. And when we got there, it had failed to record.

That sucked too.

Finally, to cap a desperately romantic evening, we came home and popped in the old standby--Star Trek: Voyager. And you know what? Star Trek is always there for you. Always teaching you right and wrong...how to live by the Prime Directive...show kindness to foreign aliens...and all that good stuff. It's the one constant in a world of chaos.

Kind of like a true Valentine.

Now maybe we'll go make Adah Part II.

Happy Valentine's Day, everyone.


P.S. Lanny asked me to include the following disclaimer: ALL of Valentine's Day didn't suck, because Lanny made us a delicious curry dish with freshly steamed asparagus. It was yummy--but such a detail didn't exactly fit the theme of today's post.

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