Photo of the day

This was taken from my phone since Dustin had the camera today. Sorry the quality isn't the greatest - but you get the idea!

Kyah loves her Daddy

I love it when Dustin gets home from work. I think Kyah loves it even more.


These 2 just love each other! They have so much fun together.


And whoever said that Kyah looks like me obviously hasn't seen Dustin's baby pictures! She looks just like her Daddy! Aren't they cute?

Kyah and Abby

I figured it was time we got an updated picture of Mom and daughter together on the blog. We took this picture on Sunday. As you can see, Kyah is decked out in her Seahawks gear for game day. (Thank you, Kevin and Becky, for the awesome outfit.) She's still growing into it.



Can you see a resemblence between the two? Abby's folks always say how much she looks like me. Regardless of who she looks like more, I'm blessed to have these two beautiful women in my life.

We had her Mariners outfit on a couple weeks ago to celebrate the end of the season. We're looking forward to a better year next year, hopefully. (Thank you, Peter, for that outfit.)

Now all we need to get her is a Sounders kit and she'll be set.

Lots more smiling

The new game now is to see how many times we can make her smile. It's so much fun. It's like winning the lottery every time she smiles. It's addicting and you just want to keep playing. Yesterday, Abby and I played the game a lot, and we won the "lottery" a lot, too.

It almost looks like she's laughing in this one, huh? She's not laughing yet...


Take special note of what her shirt says. : )






What's the hardest part of the game? Catching the smiles on camera. For everyone one smile caught on camera, there's about 20 that need to be deleted.

Smiling's my favorite

For the last couple weeks Kyah has been smiling, and let me tell you, it's so much fun when she does. We get so excited when she smiles. I mean seriously, what's not to love about this smile?



It's not happening very often yet, but one or two times a day and for a short period of time, she'll smile with you. I'm not talking about the smiling-while-falling-asleep or just-filled-my-diaper smiles either. These are the eyes-open-I'm-learning-to-smile-back-at-you smiles.

Let's see, off the top of my head, I can recall her smiling for Steve, Abby's Mom and Kayli within the last week.

Marion family comes for a visit

Abby's family made the trek to Bellingham on Sunday to spend a little time with us. We all know what they really came for - snuzzle time with their precious granddaughter (and/or niece). And snuzzle they did.

Grammie and Grandpa with Kyah

Rocking with my girl

I walked in the door today after a hard day's work, went up stairs, took Kyah off Abby's hands, and rocked her for 15 to 20 minutes. Seriously, it just doesn't get much better than this! What a great way to relax after work.



I've probably said this before, so you'll have to bear with me as I say it again. One of the things that I most looked forward to after Kyah was born was being able to do exactly this - relax with her napping in my arms. I'm pretty lucky. God has blessed me with two amazing women.

6 weeks old... already

We had fun snuzzling with Kyah on Friday evening.





It's hard to believe our beautiful baby girl is already six weeks old. As you can see from the photos, we're having a blast with her.