The World Before Lucy

So, I just realized that I have not posted anything about how Amy and I found out a few weeks ago that we are having a girl! We have already received lots of advice and comments on having a girl:

• "Start saving for the wedding now!"


• "She is going to have you wrapped around her finger. She'll be 'daddy's little girl.'"


• "No, no, no, no, no" (The first time we said to Eli "Are you going to have a little sister?")


• "Girls are different from boys - boys are easier"

It is very difficult to imagine what this will be like. I also remember saying that with Eli, and now it is difficult to remember what life was like before Eli. I am sure that it won't be long and we will be saying, "What was it like - The World before Lucy?"

Yes, Lucy is the name that we have settled on. I found that out the other day while on the phone with my sister. She asked if it was definitely Lucy. We had been telling people that it wasn't definite, reserving our right to change our mind. Amy overheard me trying to tell Tarah that we weren't 100%. When Amy heard this, she said, "Its Lucy ... it just is." Then she went on to tell me that she had just finished a blog titled "Lucy's bedding". She is right. The name is Lucy - I mean, there is something that makes it so natural to say "I love Lucy".

So, I am sure that there is a lot of other very good advice. Give me your 2 cents.

Belly Buttons

So, I have been reading "The Fall of Lucifer" by Wendy Alec in which she describes the creation of Adam and Eve. As she was describing God creating man and breathing life into him, I couldn't help but wonder if Adam and Eve had belly buttons. Since the sole biological purpose of a belly button is to provide a pathway for food, oxygen, and excrement between fetus and mother before birth, some believe that Adam and Eve did not have a belly button.

There are many arguments for each side.

On the "Yes, Adam and Eve had belly buttons" side, the arguments might be ...

• They would look funny without them.
  
• There would be one less place for lint.
  
• Belly button fungi might become extinct.
  
• The offspring of Adam and Eve needed belly buttons for the in utero phase of life; therefore, Adam and Eve, having the same genetic makeup, must have also had belly buttons.
  

On the "No, Adam and Eve did not have belly buttons" side, the arguments might be ...

• They had no medical purpose for them.
  
• The wonderment of the purpose of a belly button would have occupied too much of their time, if they had been given one.
  
• The garden of Eden was a perfect place and a belly button would have allowed Adam and Eve a way to get a fungal or bacterial infection, thus, making the environment less than perfect.
  

Well, all that aside, why do we have belly buttons in the first place? God could have made our umbilical cords heal over completely, leaving no orifice. I don't know if Adam and Eve had belly buttons, but I do know that God gave us belly buttons for the arts.

I mean could you really call music "music," if there had never been the childhood song,

I like to play with my belly button,
I like to keep it nice and clean,
If I don't clean out my belly button,
In it grows a fungus green

Even better art comes to us from the brilliant song writer and author, Sandra Boynton. This woman's genius has produced both a "Belly Button" song and the Belly Button Book. For a quick sample of the Belly Button song, click here

Now, I leave you with a quote from the Belly Button Book and some final thoughts:

We Hippos love our Belly B's
They're round and cute and funny
And there's a place we take them to
When summer days are sunny

So what are your thoughts,

Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? Did God create belly buttons mainly for their impact on the arts?

I am so excited to hear what everyone has to say about this all important subject.

Listen to some music, hear some useless comments, dial 'til your digits die

"You need more originality."
"Stick to the melody"
"That song is too big for you"
"That was just a boring song"
"Boo hoo, boo hoo, waaaaa"
"It was a little pitchy for me dog"
"You had some pitchyness in the middle"
"It wasn't good"
"It wasn't that bad"
"Be more you"
"So check it out - Dat was hot"

That's right, I am going to talk about American Idol, best described as a survey of musical preference or personality preference of a specific demographic that would watch a show and, tone deaf or not, decide that their opinion matters enough to dial a phone over and over and over again.

That said, I must admit that by the end of the season, I get so fed up with the judges comments that I end up fitting that demographic. So, since the judges always give so much useless, annoying, and unhelpful comments, I thought that I would give my own, most likely, useless, annoying, and unhelpful comments. To make it even more fun, I am not going to tell you who I am describing, just that the following is the ranking, 1 being my favorite and 11 and 12 being the ones I think should go home next (if you really want to know, click on the links next to each useless comment).

1. I like your variety and beat beat chickita chickita puh puh wigita wigita. Want to know

2. You at least seem humble and put a lot of emotion in your songs. My wife really likes you and that makes me happy. Sing it, yo

3. You're just so smiley and happy it makes me want to root for you. Come on dog, click here

4. You remind me of a teddy bear and you keep acknowledging the judges comments like they have a clue. Click me

5. You are different then the others in the competition and that is good. Click it or ticket

6. Diva Diva Diva change it up just a bit. It was cool at first, but it is getting old. Click

7. You pick the wrong songs, but I think you sound good. What you doing clicking here

8. You seem to be only a representation of a certain type of singer. Huh

9. You are growing on me. I like you better when you forget your words. Cluck

10. You look kinda funny. I liked your story at the beginning, but now you are just odd. Quack

11. Sweet voice, but look a bit more like a man and sing something louder than supper soft. moo

12. Shake your back and forth, turn your head to the right, back to the front, shake, right, front, shake, right, front. Ribbit


What do you think? Who's leaving, who's most likely the favorite of the demographic that will actually vote?