My Awesome Son...

Okay, I don't want to make everyone sick of me bragging about my son - so that's why I haven't really written much about him. I know he's awesome, but I also know other people sometimes get sick of hearing the awesome stuff he's been doing lately. But I had to share this. So we go in for his checkup this week.

His head size, can't remember the actual number, but it's about average for his weight. His weight...well, it's up to almost 13 and a half pounds, which is about in the 75th percentile. So he's eating healthy, right? But wait, there's more! Yeah, his height. He clocked in at almost 26 and a half inches - for a ten week old?! They recorded that as >97%. What does that mean? Well, my wife found a little chart on the internet which has this pretty little rainbow to display the growth curve. The lowest color being the shorter, slower growing babies, the middle the average growing babies, and the highest color the fastest growing babies. Well, he started in the middle - just average. But then, instead of following the little "rainbow path" like everyone else, he just took off running for the sky - literally. He busted out of the rainbow like a five year old after chocolate.

That's my boy!

Baby Construction Mania

Yeah, in the last week I've put together a changing table, a bookshelf, and a crib - all for our expected 'lil one! If you're wondering about the bookshelf for the baby, well my wife and I deced that since she could not find an acceptable dresser in our price range, we would just get a bookshelf of the correct color (that would be black ;-) and then use baskets to keep all the clothes and stuff in. Great idea, and it looks great as well.

So yeah, I am a baby construction maverick, having survived the construction mania, my wife and I are now ready to bring our little Keaton home! Now all we gotta do is wait another 10 weeks for that...

Hopefully, after my wife makes the final call on the layout of the baby's room, I will be allowed to take a few pictures of the room and post 'em on here for all of earth to admire.

Yeah, I know that'll keep ya on the edge of yer seat!

Getting ready for baby

Yeah, Terra and I have been spending a lot of time trying to get ready for 'lil Keaton. I realized the other week that Terra was in her last trimester, so feasibly she could go into labor at any time, though we definitely want her to try to go as close to full-term as possible.

So we've been packing up even more stuff. My fiction library is now completely in storage - everything I've read and/or own fiction-wise, except for my "to read" pile is now boxed up. Next I get to tear down my most awesome sound system and box away around 275 CDs (did I mention that I like music?). Saturday is beginning to look like a fun day at the storage unit. I think I'm going to have to pull most everything out and repack it all just to try and fit all the boxes in.

The funny thing is, a year ago I think I would have fought tooth and nail to keep my sound system up and running and for me to have "my" little office space. But now 'lil Keaton has come along and I care less and less about what I want. It's almost scary to see the change - but it's good, and I embrace it.

I know I have no idea the changes this baby will bring in my life, but I can't wait to engage and embrace them. Children are a blessing from God - even though sometimes I know they make it seem like a mixed blessing. But God uses them to challenge and shape us more in his image. And I am looking forward to enabling my children to be all that God has called them to be, to equipping them to be eaven greater men (and women!) of God than I am. That's my truest challenge and one of the few that I truly desire and will consumingly pursue to fulfill.