Kumquat dancing

Stephen and I didn't think Kumquat could get much cuter than his singing along to our songs at night--we were wrong. Kumaquat has started dancing by bending his knees to music. On top of that, this last week he has started moving his arms as if he was conducting. Its too cute for words so you'll just have to watch.
p.s. This film had to be taken behind a chair because Kumquat's new fascinations include the iphones of his uncles and Opa. Also, the sound is off for some reason, but when you hear laughing is when Christian is really falling.

What I do

To Rachel it sometimes seems that I go to school just to think interesting thoughts and never put them into practice, but the past couple of months I've been involved with a project that I think deserves a plug here. BYU hosts the largest database in the world that deals with violence against women worldwide (http://www.womanstats.org/) It's a compilation of indicators such as the global prevalence of rape, female circumcision, marriage laws, etc., and was the main source of information for the packet given to congress before the passage of the International Violence Against Women's Act. It's also routinely used by the UN, the World Bank, and other international organizations, and is the only source of data for most of its measures. People can volunteer and help out from wherever they're at, but we have had a chronic shortage lately that will probably force us to go into a bare-bones, subsistence mode. Anyway, just a possibility for anybody who is looking to get involved in a worthy project. In the meantime, Rachel is pleased that my academic elitism might actually be doing something, and has provided her with her next project (after her thesis).

A new lullaby for Kumquat

Kumquat's soon to be new lullaby:



and a few pics just in case you've missed the little guy

Alas

the days of dressing Kumquat in his diaper are over. Not because it is finally winter (I keep my apartment where we don't pay for heating to 85 degrees nearly all the time) but that he thinks its a good joke to take off his diaper and show us his cute little cottage cheese bum.

26 years ago

I was born.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again. The only good thing that came out of the "me decade" of the 80's was me (and STephen).