...it's been a blur. I get confused about which day of the week it is; I think something happened yesterday, when in reality it happened last week. Basically summer + Keagan = me being confused most of the time. It's been an amazing 3 months though. Keagan is now more than twice as big as he was when he was born; he is smiling a ton, especially after he eats; he is picking his head up; he has rolled over once and even crawled backwards a little bit; he talks a ton, and by talk I mean sounds come out of his mouth. We are still working on the crawling part, the laughing part and the sitting up. But even in the last week he has gotten a lot stronger which is fun; he even started sleeping about 6-7 hours each night, which has been really nice for Sara. I have been told that some of these things are a big deal, but I pretty much think that every new thing, no matter how small, is pretty neat!
It was a lot of fun being back in CO. Keagan got to meet a bunch of family for the first time. I saw some old friends that I hadn't seen in years and Keagan even got to meet some of my old High School players. Keagan does great traveling and has now been to Colorado, New Mexico, Nebraska and Iowa; he also gets to go to New York in a few months...quite the little traveler.
I am looking forward to the next 3 months and watching him grow even more!
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Remember the game "Memory"? Where you had different cards or tiles flipped upside down and you had to find the two that were the same? The goal was to find the most pairs of cards or pictures that matched; once you found a pair, you always got to go again, that was the real kicker. I'll admit, I was never good at this game. I could never remember which picture was where, and usually I would just give away pieces for my friends to find and I would usually be only left with a couple matches, never enough to win. It's such a simple game, a kids game, one that we probably haven't played since elementary school.
I think that it's a game that we should still be playing as we get older. Maybe not matching Disney characters on the floor of our living room, but maybe applying the "matching game" to other aspects of our life. I know I often come up with an idea, thought or belief that I then try to apply to other areas of life and then it doesn't match up. I'm not so much talking about the "memorizing" as I am the "matching". So often, when I speak with people, they are flipping over the "Mickey" card and the "Minnie" card, grabbing both and putting it in their pile as if it's a match, but it's not. It's okay to be wrong, right? It's just not okay to pretend as if they are the same thing. The kicker here is that for many of us, we don't understand that there is a difference in the two cards we put into our pile. Many times we don't even look, we just flip two over and keep them. The truth is that they don't match up.
I think we all could spend a little more time looking at our tiles instead of just grabbing which ever pieces we feel like matching and then saying "I WIN!" How often did you and your friends argue about whether you flipped over matching cards or not? It's pretty obvious if they are or not (and usually we have directions to help us out if it gets confusing). In life, however, the matching tends to be more complicated. Spend a few minutes to reflect on your thoughts, ideas and beliefs...ask yourself, do I really believe this? Why do I think this? Where did I get this from? Apply it somewhere else and see if it still holds true. If it doesn't, then it's not a match and you have to keep looking.
Sara and I seem to be getting a lot of new stuff recently. A lot of that has to do with Keagan joining us on April 25th of this year! So, we had a new baby, which lead to getting lots of new toys, clothes and other assorted baby stuff, which lead to us getting a new mini-van and now, just yesterday actually, we got a new computer. After being a PC person my whole life, we ended up getting a new iMac and now it seems that the "circle of life" for all our iToys is complete. Yep, lots of new stuff and it just got me thinking...
Everyday we all have the opportunity to acquire new stuff. I'm not just talking about material things like clothes and cars, but new situations, new experiences; we get to meet new people everyday, experience new emotions and see, hear and touch new things all the time; recently, I have been really wondering if I am taking full advantage of all the new stuff that happens around me. As Keagan lays on my chest, sucking on his pacifier and staring at me with his big blue eyes, I think about all the new and amazing experiences he is causing in my life. Each day brings something new; whether that is him peeing on me while I change his diaper or him having his first laugh (which I think is coming quick).
Each day brings something new...am I really taking advantage of each day? Are we really taking advantage of each new day we are given? Or are we sitting on the sidelines and just watching things happen around us and never experiencing all the things we could be? Just think, tomorrow morning when you wake up could be your day to experience something new. Don't go to sleep tomorrow night thinking "Man, I should have..." Take every opportunity you have and make the best of it.
"Every New Day" by Five Iron Frenzy is one of my all time favorite songs and worth the 99 cents. Every day is a gift, use each day you have and treat it as a "new" day instead of just an ordinary one.
"Only You can make every new day seem so new."
