Emily's best friend Brenna stopped by around 6 pm yesterday evening, and the three of us drove to the Healy's house on the NW side of town for a open-house get together. I saw Matt H for the first time in probably 5 years. We ran together at Macalester. He's in medical school at the University of Minnesota, living in Minneapolis and doing rotations at a hospital in Hastings, MN. Seems to be doing great.
Matt's brother Luke H and his wife Brenna have a beautiful, 8-month baby girl named Katie Rose, who looks a lot like Luke. She is a real bundle of energy! I was holding her on my lap, with her legs straddling my knee, and she was constantly kicking her legs, bouncing and laughing hysterically. She was holding a refridgerator magnet in her pudgy little hands, deliberately placing it in one hand, then the other, and then instinctively shoving it into her mouth and chomping down, with slobber soon covering both her hands and the magnet. I stood her up on the floor, holding her gently around the upper torso and supporting her under her arms with my forearms. She was shifting her weight from side to side, bouncing vigorously on one leg and then the other, laughing, almost screaming with delight, and still holding her magnet. My hands were wrapped clear around her body, and I could feel her little heart beating forcefully in her chest cavity. Absolutely incredible. I can't wait to be a dad!
Emily, Brenna, and I left around 9:30 pm. Brenna talked about her experience voting for Obama at the Iowa caucuses on the way home. I'd never appreciated what a complicated process it was! Form groups of support for individual candidates, eliminate candidates that aren't viable, shift allegiances, with some candidates reaching viability in later rounds, and repeat, until all the remaining candidates are viable and nobody wants to switch their vote. Send candidates to county, and then to the state convention, where the process repeats. I still don't really understand it, but it sounds fun!
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