May 2008

i loved my wife before she was a mom, but now that i get to observe her pouring love into my daughter, there’s a whole new depth to my love for her. i think my capacity to love c.c. grew the day we became parents.

these are some of my favorite things…

::hearing the two of them downstairs talking and giggling with each other

::watching darby taking on c.c.’s mannerisms, like the way she puts her index finger to her mouth and her eyes wander upward when she’s thinking about something….”ummmm”

::seeing c.c. jump into action to comfort and take care of darby when she hurts herself or when she’s sick. there aren’t any classes for motherhood, but somehow c.c. always seems to know just what to do

::hearing c.c. sing her little made up songs to darby. my favorite is her adaptation of john lennon - “she’s my…beautiful, beautiful, beautiful….beautiful girl”

::laughter! my gosh, c.c. is laughing with/at darby ALL the time…i love that darby will grow up in a home full of laughter

::c.c. and darby occasionally surprise me at work by bringing chic-fil-a for a little family picnic.

::most of all, i love the way that c.c. loves darby unconditionally. just because. and she’s really good at communicating it. through her words, her great smile, her laughter, her songs, and her hugs

happy mother’s day, babe. i’m glad you’re my baby mama. i love you.

darby’s obsession with john mayer continues.

i keep saying that it’s impossible for me to love this little person any more, and then i do.

do you want to know what traveling with a two-year-old (TYO) is like?

it’s like staying in a $300 hotel room that your awesome wife wheeled and dealed via priceline for $99.
but having to turn lights out at 7:30pm and pretend to be asleep long enough for TYO to finish singing, babbling, giggling and fidgeting and fall asleep.
it’s like, once TYO is finally asleep, sneaking into the $300 (for $99, thanks babe!) hotel bathroom to sit on the floor across from your wife who’s sitting on the toilet (lid down) to have a conversation without waking up TYO.

here are my beautiful girls…

los at ragamuffin soul, one of my favorite creative/worship/programming/etc. blogs, is doing a weekly creativity-share-type-thingy that he calls creative chaos.

here’s my first submission……my favorite of the “Great Moments in Cinematic Wisdom” videos that we did for our last series at crosspointe.

the series was about wisdom, called “you know. you want her.” each week, we took a popular movie (t.v. show in this case) and replaced the dialogue to introduce whatever particular aspect of wisdom that jonathan or steve have been speaking about.

this particular message was about the command to seek out wisdom. steve challenged us to remember that God completely saturates his world with his wisdom. some people think that the church has the corner on the wisdom market….

enjoy!