Hope everybody liked the birth pics. They are among our favorites. All day yesterday he ran around shouting "Birthday cake! Birthday cake!"

I bought him a huge singing balloon yesterday for his birthday. You have to hit it to make it sing a birthday song...so I'm trying to show him how it works and I say, "It will sing if you hit it. Hit it, buddy!" I could see the wheels turning in his little mind..."But I'm not supposed to hit...." Finally after I explained that time out is not for when we hit balloons, he had (and continues to have) a blast with it.

I continue to be amazed by the reaction of the Amish community to the shooting in their schoolhouse & the killing of 5 of their girls. I don't consider myself a violent person nor even capable of doing much harm....unless someone threatened or hurt my child. Then you better hope the police find you before I do. But in watching this story play out in the news, I see these people who are obeying Christ's command to turn the other cheek. And they are as a result a far better Christian witness to the world than my revenge-seeking would be.