Enough is enough

Seriously. Who starts a blog and then gives up on it? Well, actually, my guess is that a lot of people do. But we're not going to be those people. That's right. Even though we went radio-silent (errr... I mean blog-silent?) for a full 6 weeks after Natalie's birth. We're keeping this blog, just like we're keeping Natalie.

Why keep up the blog? To be honest, it's our reader base. The throngs of readers from around the globe who subscribe to our blog demand more of us. The emails, phone calls, letters, IMs, Tweets, and smoke signals we've received during the blogs' recent 6-week hiatus have made it clear that this blog has clearly taken on a life of its own. Who are we to kill it? Our job is to simply nurture it like you'd nurture a newborn baby.

Which brings me back to our newborn baby. Natalie is awesome. Sure, she poops and spits up on us, and she screams a lot, but she is also (no bias here) the most adorable littler girl ever. She runs our lives now. We bounce her, feed her, hug her, kiss her, talk in goofy voices to her, make silly faces at her, swaddle her, and do pretty much anytihng we can to make her happy. Until the past couple of weeks, the best outcome we could expect from our efforts was a calm, adorable baby. Now, though, we get smiles. And this makes it all worthwhile.

Perhaps the only thing better than Natalie smiling is seeing what we're all willing to do to make her smile. For example, this weekend, Grandma and Grandad were here, so Natalie had not two but four adults clowning around in hopes of making her grin. Grandma and Grandad coordinated a dance routine that left Natalie's parents dying with laughter. I can only hope that 1) Grandma and Grandad remember the routine and 2) we get a video of it the next time we see them. In the meantime, hopefully mommy and I can figure out other ways to make Natalie smile.