People, dogs, the ground, cars, trees, his shadow…these are all things that Caleb waves at now. His technique is a little un-orthodox too. Most babies have a dainty little wave where their fingers are the only thing moving. But oh no, not Caleb. He goes all out. He does it with gusto. He waves his [...]

Tomorrow Tiffany, Caleb and I are departing on our 11 hour road trip from Fort Worth to L.A. (lower Alabama, that is). While it’s easy to get excited about vacation, it’s hard to get excited being in the car that long, especially when you leave at 3:00PM. However, there are several critical variables that will [...]

It’s normally feast or famine for our church softball team. It seems like we’re either exploding with hit after hit or we’re slogging along rather weakly in a team-wide batting slump. Well, in last night’s game, we managed to do both. At the end of the first inning we had batted around almost twice and [...]

Andy has always been a good gift-giver, but this year he really came through with an amazing gift for my first Mother’s Day. He made me a hotel reservation for Saturday night at the Worthington Hotel in downtown Fort Worth. The idea behind it was that I am always busy doing mom and wife things, [...]

I always knew mom’s were special. I grew up with an amazing mom. But after watching my son’s birth last July and seeing more closely all the work she does in the name of motherhood, it’s not surprising that my appreciation level for all mothers was taken to a whole new glorious level. So I’m [...]

I decided to play on the church softball theam this year. Last year I played basketball, I wanted to mix things up this year and get back on the softball field. I played for 2 seasons when I lived in Montgomery right after Tiffany and were married and had a blast.

One thing odd [...]

We had an interesting night last night. Everything went well until 11 o’clock when all of a sudden Caleb started screaming. Andy and I looked at each other stunned. Caleb has been sleeping through the night since December 12. (Parents remember the exact dates of the monumental milestones.) For four and a half months we [...]