Girlz just wanna haz fun

So Katies Grandma L stopped by the other day to see her newest Great-Granddaughter. She was pretty pumped about it and so was Ashtyn, or at least she woke up long enough to give everyone the stink eye. It's when she's just coming awake and she gives a little turn of the corner of her mouth, then barely opens one eye - the ol' stink eye.

Her Grandma also dropped off a kids CD of songs that she had gotten somewhere. It has all of your favorites sung by kids. Well, 5 of your favorites sung by kids I guess - "Beautiful Girls", "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun", etc. There is one song on there without a doubt is going to be her favorite and will be replayed over and over on road trips and this is a concern to daddy.

I'm going to lose half my audience here, but the other two people will follow me. The song is called "Hey There Delilah" and it was made 'famous' in the loosest sense of the word about a year or so ago by a band called the Plain White T's. I'm not sure if it's the timbre of their voices, possibly the note that it's keyed in, whatever..... it basically makes your head start nodding and then increasingly start banging off a brick wall. For those of you that have XM radio, you'll know it was played ad nauseum on every single music station they had for MONTHS. In fact, my dial didn't move off of XM 175 the Major League Baseball channel for fear that the song would be on somewhere.

It's a hideous song, but lil Ashtyn, if you wanna hear it, daddy will play it for you on the way to daycare or wherever. I may remind you later in life that daddy did this for you though.

In other news, the belt notch I tightened last week I had to loosen when Katies mom was here the last few days. Fresh homemade lasagna for lunches, Kneophla soup, meatballs, turkey and dumplings and such for supper. Very good, double the workouts to compensate.

Grandma and Papa Miller also made it down over the weekend, as did my brother Steve, his wife Brittany and their daughter Shaquille O'Neal. Yeah, she's not really Shaq, but she's only a year old and she DWARFS Ashtyn. It's not that she's any bigger than any other one year old, it's just that you get used to this tiny little 7.7lb baby and the size differential shocks you a little.

Also, some great news - Ashtyn has a new play partner. Ella Hazel Horner has entered the building!!! Jason and Kristy Horner gave birth at 12:01 a.m. this morning to the little girl. We stopped up to see her this evening and got some pics of the baby daddy's with their daughters. It was a little weird walking back into the Birthcenter at the hospital again. Katie may or may not have had flashbacks and a panic attack.

All is well with the Horners - congrats to them! Now I have someone to make comments in poor taste with when we take stroller rides through the zoo.

So. That should pretty much catch everyone up. We're the typical neurotic new parents now. Jump at every sound, when she's the least bit hot we wonder if she has a case of Malaria, when the temp fluctuates outside of a 71.8 to 72.6 degree range we rush to dress or undress her. We're learning though.