"...Her First Kimchee"

Button noses and chubby legs?  Awesome.  Bubbling fits of laughter and sudden bodily gas emissions?  Pure joy.  Babies sure rock our world, don't they?

There's a little one very busy sleeping, eating, pooping, and burping in Pittsburgh these days.  According to this little note that was waiting for me in the mailbox this evening, it seems likely that by the time she masters her chopstick skills, we'll happily eat kimchi together.  That time will come sooner than I can blink.  It seems like it was just yesterday when this little girl's mother slurped up her first bowl of spicy Korean ramen straight from the stove of my on-campus apartment.  My little sister's freshman college roommate proved to be a true champ that day having no problems tackling kimchi with her noodles to boot.  That was more than ten years ago.

Time is a pushy thing.  It just bumps you right along without a care in the world.