Catherine likes to YELL! She stands on the couch against the arm and yells at me here at my computer. She is 10 months old now (Wow!!), crawling, and standing up on everything she can find. She has had her fair share of falls, and then some. (Don’t tell Grandma!) I am proud to say that she has not had a single pacifier or bottle. I have gone swimming with her a few times in the apartment complex pool, and now this lucky baby actually has swimming diapers to swim in, thanks to Great-Grandma Schomburg. So far Papa has been successful in keeping her away from the new server long enough so that she doesn’t manage to turn it off.
I recommend to all parents the book “The Family Bed” by Tine Thenevin. It is a few decades old but its wisdom is timeless. If all parents who sleep separately from their babies read it, the world could be a happier place. It discusses the safety of sleeping with your baby, how it is a good way of bonding with adopted children, shares neat and sometimes tender stories (and sometimes heartbreaking!) of parents and their children, and much more.
We are still waiting for a godfather for Catherine. Please pray!
Luke has news that he will post when he is ready.
I am reading “Brave New World” by Alduous Huxley and strangely enough, enjoying it. I hope I find our friend’s copy of “Animal Farm” before he comes over again…I haven’t seen any torn pages around, so that means Catherine hasn’t got to it. A good book I’m reading is “The Marketing of Evil: How Radicals, Elitists, and Pseudo-Experts Sell Us Corruption Disguised As Freedom” by David Kupelian. I like that last name! I learned that Judge Blackmun, the Supreme Court judge who changed our country’s laws on abortion and caused the brutal murders of more than forty million people, had a daughter named Sally who became pregnant in college about seven years before Roe v. Wade. As you might guess, when Judge Blackman asked his wife and daughters about Roe v. Wade, she was favorable to abortion! She ended up having a miscarriage and the short marriage to the father of the baby dissolved.