It has been a long time without a post! Sorry about that! I (Kevin) have taken a second job as the Coordinator for the local YMCA after-school program, and as such I am out of the house working 11 hours a day, 5 days a week and am still running my videography business on top of everything. So needless to say I have not had much free time. I apologize for the lack of Tiny Stiny information as of late.

First of all, everything is still going perfectly. The baby is perfectly healthy and she weighs about 4.5 pounds and is about sixteen inches tall. Michelle is convinced that she has taken up Kung Fu as her favorite hobby is kicking Michelle so hard she wakes up in pain at all hours of the night.

Since we have not officially decided on a name yet (and when we do we are keeping it a secret) much speculation has been happening amongst family members. Nobody likes to just call her “the baby” so Janelle (Michelle’s sister) calls her Orangello and Eddie (Michelle’s dad) calls her Norinda (or sometimes Nairobi). Everyone else calls her those or a variation of those three names. Michelle wouldn’t go for my proposed name of Katrina so we are at an impasse. I think I am just too in the Halloween spirit right now. I have been watching, listening to and reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Katrina Van Tassel is Ichabod’s love interest. In the last couple of weeks I have watched the Disney movie version, listened to two audio dramas of the story and read the graphic novel. So Michelle is probably right and I would probably change my mind on the name once the Halloween season is over. We have a couple of good ideas for names though and we are floating those around in our heads right now.

Today Michelle is up in Michigan attending her first shower. My family up there is throwing it for her. She still has three more showers in the next couple of months besides this one! We are very blessed with such great family and friends. They are awesome!

Well today I am painting Orangello/Norinda/Nairobi/Katrina’s room so I am off for now!

Grace and Peace,
Kevin