It's a beautiful, rainy day.

This morning I swept the acorns off the driveway and patio. Ahh, the glamour of home-ownership.

On a less boring note, Stacy came and visited this past weekend! It was so great to see her. Remember Stacy? I am so glad that we're keeping in touch with our awesome NICU nurses -- they are such an important part of our extended family. Liz, you're next! Anyway, Cole remembered Stacy with a big smile:





Yay! It's still funny to me seeing Stacy, Grace, and Liz in "street clothes."

Cole is growing. Not just his big round belly, but he's getting longer too! Proof is that we've needed to pull out the box of "future" clothes, and put away some of his regular outfits cause he just doesn't fit into them anymore! It's nuts. It's sad to see some of our favorites get folded up and put into storage, but exciting to see some of the new threads he gets to strut around in. Check it out:









This is our new favorite family portrait:


How sassy is that kid? Wicked sassy.

You can't really see his classy collared shirt, but you can see that Kate's about to get drooled on, and that's funny.


Changing gears, my friend Andy came over and helped me start installing speaker cable into the walls of our house. This has been a lifelong dream for me, and I'm really excited to be doing it for real, in our very own house. I know it's a silly dream, but this home theater / stereo baloney is actually important to me. Here's one third of our progress so far.







We have done the front left, center and right speakers. Next we have to do the rear left and right speakers, and the main patch plate where they all route to. That'll be fun! I have to say; drilling through the basement floor into the wall between the hallway and living room was scary at first, and then incredibly satisfying. Fun!