This week we’ve taken food to two different couples from our church who just had their first babies. We enjoyed seeing how excited they were despite the stress, endless dirty diapers, constant feedings, and lack of sleep. One mom said her marketing job for Verizon was a cakewalk compared to caring for a newborn, but her joy and love for her new daughter completely filled the room. After seeing lots of new parents over the last couple of years, we’re intrigued and amused by the variety of parenting approaches among our friends. One couple is on the structured end of the spectrum, documenting every detail of their daughter’s life from the number of diapers to how long she nurses on each side. They obviously adore her and spend most of their free time focusing on her. Another couple is on the laid-back end of the spectrum. They take their newborns out in public within a couple of weeks, don’t obsess over germs, and try to arrange their babies’ schedules around their own instead of the other way around. They obviously love their kids as well but have a much different approach. We have much to learn and don’t know yet which approach we will take.

I’ve worked so much overtime over the last couple of weeks that we decided to get ourselves a little present, something we’d wanted and debated for a long time but kept putting off: a Playstation 3. We have an RPG called Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and a martial arts hack & slash called Ninja Gaiden Sigma, both of which we really like so far. A PS3 also plays Blu-Ray movies (high-def format), so I converted part of our Blockbuster Online movie queue to Blu-Ray format. We don’t have tons of time to play right now, but this week has been quiet enough to squeeze in some time. It’s amazing to think back to the old days of gaming, when I played Jungle Hunt and Missile Command on Atari and then Kung Fu and Kid Icarus on original Nintendo. We’ve also ordered a Wii (Nintendo’s motion-sensitive gaming system) for Jenny’s birthday, and it should arrive in April. I married well, don’t you think?