Kiley’s six month update has a lot to do with her mouth, what goes in it, and what it produces. Since November sixth, she has started making more pronounced sounds like “nah, nah, nah, nine, nine, nine” (I think she might be German) instead of just cooing and “ahhs.” She will look at our mouths as we talk to her, as if to figure out what we are doing and how to say something herself.
Continuing with her mouth, we had Thanksgiving a little early this year because I had to go to work. She got her first taste of baby food: turkey and gravy, sweet potatoes, and applesauce for dessert. She gagged on all of it, so we had to give her a bottle afterward. On the real Thanksgiving day, she got prunes and loved them! The following day she got more and was excited when she saw them in the container and opened her mouth wide to accept them. With the baby food came the first massive BM that ended with her getting cut out of her onesie. Gone are the milk only poopies!
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My sister and her husband own season tickets to see the Dallas Cowboys and are generous enough to take two people with them each game. They’ve taken neighbors and friends and Laura and I were the lucky two invited for the December 2nd game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Our seats are just off one end zone but really close to the field and with the huge, 60 yard screen that hangs from above, there are no bad seats in Cowboy’s Stadium.
Our house that is being built down in Dallas is coming along. The foundation is poured and the first level is framed. The wood arrived after 12:30 in the afternoon, and by six pm, when this picture was taken, the first floor was complete! We are happy about the progress on the house and look forward to seeing it go up, bit by bit.
We had some pretty fancy cargo on my most recent flight from Anchorage to Hong Kong. Pictured is a 
When the taxi instructions come down to us from the tower, I release the parking break. Even at just over 985,000 lbs, we start to roll forward; the mighty GEnx-2B67 engines are hungry to pull us forward and eager to power us into the dark and brooding Hong Kong night. I take my time in the turns and make them extra deep so that our 250 foot long frame will carefully round the corners of the taxiways. The cockpit is dark, still smelling like brand new leather and carpet, with just the dim glow of the LED screens in front of us showing the engine instruments and the flight path on departure. As I call for the before takeoff checklist, the captain reads from the front computer screen and ticks off the items one by one.