...I'm sorry, where was I?

That above date shows when I actually started this post. Today's date is 10/14/06...

Yeah, I'll admit that it has been a few months since I've posted here, but if you ask just about any new parent, they'll tell you that my absence was justified. When I wake up, I just want to see Nigel. When I come home from work, I just want to see Nigel. If I could smuggle Nigel to work in a lunchbox, I would do that in a second. That ain't gonna happen though, because the once tiny little baby...



...has become bigger....



...and bigger...


...and bigger...



...yep, still bigger...



...and bigger still...



...and here's a fairly recent picture of the little tyke...



Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, is he not? Hard to believe how much he's grown. He was 9 lbs. and 3 oz., but these days my boy tips the scales at twenty-freakin'-two lbs. Yeah, that's right - 22...so how ya like me now? He has already grown four inches in his short time on the Earth. I'm convinced that he'll eventually be taller than me, and I'm 6'3". He is a joy. He wakes up in the morning and coos to himself in his crib until we pick him up. He sings with the CD player in the car (his favorite is They Might Be Giants' Here Come The ABC's, the DVD of which was given to us by our friends Ray and Jennifer. I'm a HUGE They Might Be Giants fan, and this new kid-oriented material is great stuff. I went and bought the CD. Did you know that vowels are important letters? Nigel does. All in all Nigel is just a happy kid, and we are both trying to figure out how we got so lucky.
I'll try to update this thing a little more often.