I just wanted to point out that our friend Mat has been producing some great Haiku’s over at his Haiku Blog. The above picture is the cover of his recent paper Zine.
Here’s a favorite of mine:
an ugly poodle
glances back after crossing
five lanes of traffic
We have our first ultrasound pictures!
I know it looks like a black blob, but when we were there we could see him/her kicking and moving around. We were glad to see that
See the whole photo set here.
UPDATE
Ashley had another ultrasound at the SCV Pregnancy Center’s new sonogram. These pictures came out better than before and are recommended if this is the type of thing that interests you.
A week ago Sunday, dad was in a motorcycle accident. Though he came off the bike at about 50 MPH he didn’t break a single bone. We’re praising God for that. Here’s what happened:
Dad was on his way to church in Hollywood. It was a two lane exit, Dad was in the left lane and the other car was in the right. As they were exiting the car changed his mind and cut in front of Dad. I don’t think they hit, but Dad had to slam on the front break and lean back to the left.
The bike went out from under him and he fell on his left hand. He wasn’t wearing gloves, but thankfully he was wearing a leather jacket. Next he hit is face and the helmet came up a bit and he scraped his chin. Then he started skidding on his back-end and tried to slow himself down so he put down his foot and immediately lost his shoe. Slowly the bike slide away from him and he stopped in the white exit triangle, out of the way of traffic.
His computer and Bible came out of the saddle bags and papers started blowing down the freeway. He picked up his Bible and called my mom. The message went something like this: “Uh, accident on the motorcycle. I’m okay. Blood… I’m getting blood on my Bible! I’ve got to go. *click*”. There was an off-duty cop from another state who watched the whole thing. He pulled over and called the ambulance. The car that cut him off never stopped.
Dad was able to come home from the hospital that night. He was in good spirits at the hospital and made plenty of jokes to the E.R. staff. Ashley and I were in Oklahoma at the time so we weren’t able to help them. Thankfully this opened up an opportunity for a couple of members of their church to help out. One in particular was Dante who graciously drove my parents to five different pharmacies to get the drugs Dad was prescribed.
Dad is now beat up and bandaged but the bruises are healing and, like I said, not a bone was broken. We’re so thankful for that. Here are some pictures.
Nate and I have some very specific ideas about the kinds of toys that we would like our children to have. While some of this is based only on preference, some of it comes from having 700 sq.ft. in our condo and knowing that we have no place to put 3′x3′ baby gym. That’s 9 sq.ft. of precious floor space! We were walking through Target tonight and saw things like Lincoln Logs and said, “We should totally get these for the kids someday.” We also came across the battery operated dragon that roars, moves it’s head and “breathes fire” and said, “No way.” We both have a traditional view of toys and have seen dozens of kids set aside the flashy new toy and play contentedly with the box it came in. While we do appreciate the strides that mankind has made to improve early childhood development, we are confident that this can be made without the crib mounted remote control aquatic sounds simulator that we saw on the shelves tonight. So here are some examples of things that if we receive as gifts we will be returning if possible or that may find their way over to grandma and grandpas living room:
Here are some toys that we love:
Nate’s going to create a Baby Murray Gift Buying Guide Flowchart for the interested gift buyers out there. Stay tuned, it should be interesting.
I leave today for Oklahoma until next Wednesday. Ashley’s mom is getting married! It will be great because we’re going to be able to see Rodney and Erin and the kids.
It’s been a while since I’ve flown and I’m looking forward to have a few hours to sit and read and work on my Linear Algebra.
Here’s what I’ll be reading on the plane:
Van Til’s Apologetic
Godel, Escher, Bach
Introduction to Linear Algebra
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