Jonathan Hickman

Did you know I have the best wife in the world?

Did you know she’s one of the coolest people ever to walk the earth, not to mention the most beautiful?

I thoroughly enjoy her company, and I’m never bored when I’m with her. We’ve had a fantastic and wonderful two years together.

I would really, really like to watch this UT football game.

Not only do I enjoy watching UT football, I also am caught up in this game and would like to watch it.

But with halftime encroaching, I know I just can’t do it. It will be past 10 by the time the second half starts, and I should be in bed by then. Heck, I want to be in bed by then.

Annoying.

I think most of the a/c adapters in this house are broken.

In the last week, both of the cell phone charges went toes up (grr), and one of the laptop a/c adapters - the second one already for that particular laptop.

I am not amused.

Enter not, those bearing a/c adapters

I love how babies start their lives sleeping only on their backs, but by a year they sleep like “big” kids.

I just snuck a peak at my baby girl, and she was flipping over and rearranging herself, deeply asleep but clearly trying to get more comfortable.

Super cute.

After only a week or so with my new car, it is in the shop.

The check engine light kept going off. The first time it went off, I took it back to the dealership, and they decided the gas cap wasn’t on tight enough. I wasn’t sure I believed them, but I sure wanted to.

For the last fifteen or twenty minutes, the Bug has been wandering around, chatting, and generally being as happy as a Bug could be.

What is making her so happy? A metal bandaid box. She’s been walking around from room to room with a metal metal bandaid box up to her ear, as if it’s a phone.

Babies are silly.

My first night alone with the Bug did not go well.

I got her to bed by 9 o’clock, and I was thinking I had success. Things were off to a good start. And I followed her to bed within thirty minutes, knowing that even the best case scenario had me getting less sleep than usual.

Katie left for Texas this morning at 4, and I am minutes away from starting my first ever night alone with the Bug.

We just had a new metal roof installed on our office, and a part of it is just outside my window, covering the porch below.

It’s finally raining here - the second time since the roof was installed a few months ago - and I have discovered that I simply adore the sound of rain on a metal roof.

The Bug went running down the hall a second ago. I walked over and swooped her up - she’s so cute couldn’t resist.

Lifted a few inches off the ground, she kicked her legs as if she was still trying to walk.

She’s a toddler. And she can’t be stopped.