Random Acts of Mind by Dones

We have our very own ’singing frog’ situation here with our little boy. It appears that when we are face-to-face with him now, he’ll just smile, and laugh, and coo to us, thinking we’re the greatest things he’s ever seen. I can’t even voice to you how thrilling that is: what a beautiful sight it […]

5 new baby videos (son & nephew) & my first Spore creature creation on my Youtube channel. It’s a lot for me to embed here. Check ‘em out!

Good thing this video of my wife & I didn’t come out on the internet until after the adoption was finalized!

As smooth as the actual hearings went to terminate the birth father’s parental rights and finalize our adoption, it sure was a crazy day. We got to the Leavenworth County Courthouse at 1pm as directed (since our adoption attorney is based in Leavenworth, this was the most expedient place to take care of the court […]

First of all, the season finale of The Office last night was absolutely brilliant. I think that as an episode, this was better than the Jim & Pam cliffhanger a couple seasons ago. I can’t wait for fall!
But the actual purpose of this post is to point out one time where the jackass boss Michael […]

Okay, here are the three new videos I hadn’t actually posted to this blog before.

Nothing graphic in this video. Since I’ll be at home with Joshua 3 days a week by myself, I wanted to show my chops during the dreaded diaper change. Being able to do it in my sleep is a good sign of experience, don’t you think?

Our adoption finalization hearing is set for May 28th. This is a week after we close on our new home, and Josh will be six weeks old on that day, his ‘Gotcha’ day.
We signed all of our sellers’ closing documents this morning and found out the handful of work that needs to be done […]

We got the loan we were hoping for, and we’re starting to get everyone paid for our adoption expenses. Thankfully our tax credit will cover the loan without difficulty as soon as I can get our 2008 return filed next February, so I’m not even that worried about the extra debt. Granted, it’d be much […]

I start back to work today. I’m working this weekend, Friday-Sunday, then taking 2 days off as intermittent FMLA leave each week until our little boy is about a month old. That’s the earliest the sitter would take him, and I can understand why, given the amount of attention a newborn needs.
So Jessie will be […]