Start Your Engines

Amy and I have been saying for a while that so many funny and amazing and scary things happen as we stumble through life with these most excellent kids we need to write them down.

Well, here we are, writing them down.

So, to start things off, this is us:

Elsie, the youngest. Clearly more wise than either of her parents. I mean, come on: look at those eyes.

Declan, the middle fella. Wide open, hilarious and the quintessential charmer who slays the ladies.

Kaleigh, the eldest. So gorgeous it fairly scares me to death -- a wonderful young woman with a big heart, a sharp wit and a sweet love for the little ones.

And us, Amy and David. This is us on our honeymoon, at the bar in Costa Rica that we went to every night to watch the sunset, have a drink and listen to the spider monkeys do whatever it is spider monkeys do so very loudly in the dimming light of a jungle at sunset.

Does it look like we're holding onto each other for dear life? Perhaps so. It's like we knew, even then, that the romantic dinners out a few times a week, the six or eight movies each month, the lazy Sunday mornings were about to be put on hold for a while.

I think, by the way, that that might have been the last time we really got a good night's sleep...

But damn it's been worth it.

Hopefully more to come soon.

David