Thank you Stadium Hat!!!

SHEW!!!! Man, that was stressful. That game reminded me of EVERY game during the 2002 season when we ended up winning the championship - staying just barely ahead the whole game, watching most of the game pacing back and forth, through the cracks of your fingers, coming down to the last second, winning by less than 7 points. After weeks and weeks of hype - the OSU v. Michigan game definitely lived up to it, and the Buckeyes pulled it off. I don't know about you, but I really hope we don't have to play them again for the championship - they were that good.

If you haven't been around to hear about Stadium Hat, I'll fill you in: back during the 2004 season, Articus purchased Stadium Hat for Brian as a birthday gift.
At first we just thought it was funny, Brian wore it to the games, got lots of comments from overly excited Buckeye fans, and that was that. Until last year Brian sold his Texas tickets on ebay, and thus didn't go to the game, therefore Stadium Hat was not present at the stadium. And guess what? We lost. A heartbreaker. So then we started to think...hmmm....maybe there's connection, we've always won as long as Stadium Hat has been present at the game. And since then, we've always made sure it was present at all home games. Stadium Hat has not lost - we think the overall record is about 20-0. So once again, Brian sold his Michigan tickets this year, but luckily, Melanie was going to the game, so she carried the torch, and alas - THANK YOU STADIUM HAT!!!

As for us, we watched the game with our good friends over at Jason and Beth's house. Everyone was such as good sport - having seen how Katy had reacted to all the screaming last weekend at bw-3's, everytime the Buckeyes scored, we all participated in a very quiet, yet very celebratory, O-H-I-O!!

One of the nailbiting moments during the game...

It's sure been crazy around here, though, and Melanie said the game was an experience she will never forget. I'll try to post again later with some more of her highlight pics...

A new day, a new baby

One of the things I didn't expect about having a baby is how often and how quickly they change. Especially now, I think, around the 4-8 month period there is so much going on. I seriously feel like Katy is a different kid every week. I'll think back to last Tuesday and think, "Man, was that just last week she was doing that? And now she's doing this?" Something else that comes along with that is the trail of frustrating things. We just conquer waking up every two hours all night long and then she cries every time you put her down. Then we get over that one and she refuses the bottle. Right now there are several "things" going on with Katy:

1. She's teething - 2 lower ones poking through the gums a couple millimeters. This could explain alot of the problems below.
2. She has such sensitive skin that she has little rashes all over her body at any given moment - at THIS moment they are pretty flared up.
3. She just started refusing the bottle. She's taken one with no problem since she was three weeks old, but now she's decided to be picky and wait for mommy to come home from work.
4. She's also being picky about her solid foods - sometimes she takes it and sometimes she doesn't.
5. She just learned to sit up - all the sudden she can sit by herself and play with toys for 20 minutes or longer. This makes her (and me) very happy.

(This picture makes me think of what you do for a puppy - leave baskets of chew toys laying around.)

And all of this is new this week - incredible, huh? So in an attempt to soothe the teething discomfort I decided to try this contraption: she's supposed to be eating the banana through the mesh part, at first she was confused.

But eventually she figured it out:

So it only makes me wonder what next week will bring... we'll be back to report.

It won't always be this yellow...

Here are some pics of the kitchen progress. We ordered countertops and picked flooring, I think. Brian painted the walls, and I love the color, but without the bright blue curtains I plan to make it looks very very yellow...