So Far, so Good

So far, being a parent is awesome. Cassie is pretty easy to manage. She's sleeping most of the time; when she cries she needs one of four things: food, a diaper change, the pacifier, or a little quality time with daddy. Fortunately, Tolkien the dog has been fairly flexible. The working instinct is strong in him and he really wants to help when he can: he whines when she cries, he watches when we change diapers, and I actually watched him rock her in the bassinet the other day - it was amazing. I do worry occasionally that the dingo in his heritage will come out and I'll turn around and he'll have snatched her out of her swing and carried her back to his kennel to gnaw on her toes.

Here is a picture (self-portrait, of course) of us watching football while mama takes a nap.

On another note - Google has really got its poop in a group when it comes to application integration. Mama downloaded Picasa to manage our photos. It's got a super-duper easy to use mini-editing suite which I used to work up a print for the birth announcements. I just ordered 100 prints for the announcements by clicking a button; they'll be ready at the Walgreen's down the street in an hour. Then I clicked another button to upload this photo to a new blog entry. Another button will email photos from my library to anyone through my Gmail account. As my homeboy Elwood would say: "That's dope-fly-monkey!".

Here's the photo from the announcement: