On the house front, things are obviously progressing well if we’re at the model stage. Kris has a post up over at her blog about some of the green certification systems we’ve been examining and synthesizing (and by “we,” I of course mean “her”) over the past few months. In redux, we’re much more interested in a house that performs well over the long-term in terms of energy savings and being comfortable rather than one-time, “hooray-for-us” points. As such, we’re heavily invested in making design choices and choosing systems that will last.

I started playing Peter and the Wolf for Will a few weeks ago. I remembered loving it as a child myself, and it also gave us a break from oft insipid children’s music. YouTube even obliged us with the Disney version.

Well, he loves it. He’s been singing the theme non-stop, and pretending he’s the wolf. We try to stop him when he growls at his sister too much. I didn’t realize until this week that he’s *also* been singing it non-stop at pre-school. His teacher asked us if we could make her a copy of the music so she could share it with the rest of the class.

Will just got his classmates interested in classical music, and I think that’s pretty awesome.

I raise my glass to the 3 of you this evening!

• You can bank as much sleep as you want before the baby is born, but you’ll use it all up in that first week. It will, however, allow you to survive that first week.
• Poop happens. Deal. This is further proof that you can get used to anything.
• Postpartum happens. Talk to someone. Get help. Fathers, I’m talking to you here.
• My favorite things in the world are baby smiles.

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Today marks the start of my first full week back at work since the baby’s arrival. We’ll see how it goes; I’m anticipating even less sleep than usual.