Exciting new achievements

You see this! She's playing by herself with her hanging toys. She is now three months old and is intentionally reaching up and playing with them. Totally exciting, right?!


Of course, when you play hard you also sleep hard. : )




I love how snuggly she is when she gets tired.

The last couple weeks have been a blessing for me. I've had the privilege of staying home and caring for Kyah. We spent a lot of quality time together. Time that I will always treasure.

It's hard to believe she's three months old already.

Date night

Abby and I escaped for a date night a couple weeks ago for the second time since Kyah was born. We went out to sushi in Seattle with a bunch of friends to celebrate James' 30th birthday. We had a fabulous time celebrating James.

Seriously, look at my wife, doesn't she look amazing. And to think, she just had a baby 3 months ago. Smokin' hot!


Mmmmmmm sushi!


The big 3-0!




And sticking with tradition, the guys went and played basketball afterwards.

Fire and snow

Kyah and I decided to rock by the fire for a bit today since it's so stinking cold outside. It's actually snowing and has been for a hour or so. The flakes are super tiny though because it's a chilly 23 degrees outside. There's nothing quite like a fire "in the dead of winter" (as Abby refers to it).

It didn't take Kyah long to fall asleep in my arms. I'm sure a little bit had to do with the fire, but I'm pretty sure she just likes sleeping in my arms. : )

We're having a blast together at home while mommy transitions back to work. I get to be a temporary stay-at-home Dad while Abby finds out what it's like to return to work after having three months off.

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.