He Must Be Contained!

Kai is mobile! He has learned to roll from his back to his tummy and also has learned to link his rolls so that we may no longer find our young son where we left him. The attached video is 3 minutes of unedited spine tingling action! I was going to add a song in to the background like I did on Kai's first daredevil video, but I had a hard time finding one that didn't overwhelm my awesome play-by-play commentary...look out Ernie Harwell, here comes Chad Lesnet! Okay, Ernie's legacy is probably safe, but I'm sure I can give Larry Clisby a run for his money.

In other news, our "Baby Wise" baby is back on Indiana time! I think it is due to his daddy coming across this here De Lorean...

This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes. - Genesis 31:40

Back Home Again...

Back home again in Indiana,
And it seems that I can see
The gleaming candlelight, still shining bright,
Through the sycamores for me.
The new-mown hay sends all its fragrance
From the fields I used to roam.
When I dream about the moonlight on the Wabash,
Then I long for my Indiana home.

The Indiana Lesnet's are back home again and although we had a fantastic time out in the desert, we are sure glad to be back!

We flew from Indy to Phoenix on Friday (June 6) arriving in Phoenix at around 7pm Arizona time. Kai did amazingly well on the flight, he did fuss a little bit but most people couldn't hear him because the back half of the plane was connecting to Vegas and they were very loud (in fact, the last couple of passengers had to be helped off of the plane because they were too tipsy). Kai was so good that the ladies in the row in front of us didn't even know that there was a baby on board until they were departing the plane!

Arizona is 3 hours behind Indiana, so that was about 10pm, which is waaaayyyy past young Mr. Kai's bedtime. We picked up our rental car (we splurged for a mini van, a Toyota Sienna) and promptly headed to the closest In-N-Out burger. After burgers, we headed down to Tucson that evening. We got to the Martin's house in Tucson at about 9:00 AZ time (midnight for us Indiana folks). Kai's timing was a bit off with the time change. He pretty much settled in to waking up on Indiana time and going to bed on AZ time. Stephanie and I definitely didn't catch up on any sleep while we were away.

On Saturday morning (6/7), I left at the crack of dawn and headed up to Casa Grande (half way between Phoenix & Tucson) to play some golf at Mission Royale Golf Club. It has been a long winter and I struggled mightily, but it was nice to get out and play. The rest of our Saturday was pretty chill as we all got caught up, ate some hamburgers, and watched the Kai and Cole play.

On Sunday (6/8), all 6 of us went up to Mount Lemmon. We had plenty of room for us 4 adults and the boys in the Sienna. On the way up, we had lunch at a Chuy's Baja Broiler. The food there is great and rumor has it that Lance Armstrong is a big fan of them, but after doing a bit of online research, I'm not sure if they are the same Chuy's (the menu's and mascots are different). We had a great time on Mount Lemmon. We have been up there before but we hadn't been to Rose Canyon Lake which is where we went this time. It was nice to beat the heat with by seeking some higher ground and the boys really liked the hikes being held in their carriers. On our way back, we had dinner at this pizza joint called Oregano's. That place was very good!

On Monday (6/9), Stephanie spent much of her day trying to get a report finished up for work, so I spent much of the day playing with Kai and Cole. We had lunch from Taco Juan's down in Tucson, it's a local joint and it is amazing! We make sure that we eat there every time we make it to Tucson. I did manage to get out and play 18 practice holes at Silverbell Golf Course. I made a huge comeback on my scoring and really started to shake some of that winter rust off of my golf swing. During golf, Stephanie and Tracey watched a chick flick. On Monday evening, we took the boys swimming for the first time in the Martin pool. It was neat the way that they kicked their legs as they were swimming around. They had a good time, but they got tired of it pretty quickly as well.

On Tuesday (6/10), we went shopping. We went shopping for Father's day gifts in the morning. In the afternoon, we went shopping for some clothes for me and went to the outlet mall to see if we could find any good deals on sneakers. On Tuesday evening, Stephanie and Tracey made The Pioneer Woman's Chicken Spaghetti, this stuff is AWESOME. It is so good that I think you should stop reading the blog and start making some Chicken Spaghetti. The spaghetti needs to bake in the oven for a while so you can come back and finish reading the blog while your dinner is baking.

Wednesday (6/11) was back to the golf course but not before we had some breakfast burritos from Nico's Mexican Food. Wow, these are the best breakfast burritos we've ever had and they are super cheap. If you are still reading this and haven't started making your Chicken Spaghetti yet, then I suggest you open another browser window and book some tickets to Tucson so that you can get some Nico's. While you are there, make sure you also check out Taco Juans! Chuck and I played Del Urich Golf Course. The Martins and the Lesnets had dinner that night at My Big Fat Greek Restaurant. I had lunch at a My Big Fat Greek Restaurant last year up in Phoenix and I really liked it. The food for dinner was okay but our server was fantastic. She was this young Greek chick (around 21-25) who questioned my manhood for not ordering something that was Greek enough. We ordered the Zeus Beer, isn't that Greek enough?

On Thursday (6/12), we ate at Nico's again! That alone would make for a great day, but after eating a burrito, we drove up to Phoenix to play golf at the Cattail Course at Whirlwind Golf Resort with Tracey's dad. I swung the club pretty well but the greens were lightning fast so my putting was terrible. I definitely played better than I scored.

After golf on Thursday, we went up to the North side of the city to see the Patterson's and their girls. The Patterson's used to live up here in Indy but they moved out to Phoenix a little over a year ago. We had a cookout with them and were able to get a nice picture of our families.

Friday the 13th - Return to Indy

Pharaoh said, "I will let you go to offer sacrifices to the LORD your God in the desert, but you must not go very far. Now pray for me." - Exodus 8:28

Lord Stanley back to Hockeytown

THE DETROIT RED WINGS

2007-2008 Stanley Cup Champions

Okay, I'm a big sports nut. I'm a happy man though and I just had to share my joy with all of you loyal readers.

The big news this week (besides Detroit's 11th Stanley Cup) is that I got my hair cut. It was so dramatic that Stephanie wanted to take before and after pictures. As you can see from the after picture, I don't have a lot of hair at this time. I think that the new do makes Kai and I look a little more alike. His hair is growing in pretty quickly now though so I will have to let mine grow out if we're going to enter any father and son look alike contests.
It's so hard to get a group photo where everyone has their eyes open.

In other news, the Lesnet's are will be taking the desert by storm next week as we are heading out to Arizona to visit some friends. The Martin's had a little boy named Cole a month before Kai was born. We are really looking forward to getting out of the midwest and away from our offices for a week. I am taking along the golf clubs and I hope to finally get in a couple of rounds of golf while we are out there. Stephanie has just finished a major deadline at work and can really use this time away. Kai is planning on going swimming and maybe get a lesson on how to roll from his back to his tummy from little Cole. We are all a little nervous about the flight since it is 4 hours long and we won't get in to Phoenix until after Kai's bedtime. The timing for this trip is great and we will make sure that we post pictures when we get back.

Then he took the cup, gave thanks and offered it to them, and they all drank from it. - Mark 14:23

Memorial Day Weekend

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.


We would like to start off this post by thanking all of the men and women both past and present that have served our contry in the armed forces. We have amazing freedoms that no other people in the world enjoy and we wouldn't have those liberties if it weren't for you.



This Memorial Day weekend has been very slow for us, or at least we see that we are now subject to a new standard of "slow". This weekend grandma and grandpa Eridon came down from the Toledo area to see us. We have done somewhere in the neighborhood of 6 loads of laundry, went to the grocery, mowed the yard (complete with edging, trimming, and cleaning off the mulch and concrete areas), went to the farmer's market in Noblesville, cleaned the house (had guests coming), grilled out some awesome steaks with corn on the cob, volunteered for nursery at church, listened to the Indianapolis 500 on the radio (it's blacked out here), had visitors over for Memorial Day lunch, cleaned the house again. I believe that this would be an action packed weekend for most people before they have children, but it was amazingly refreshing for us. We were able to get ready for bed and fall asleep each night instead of our normal "run until the batteries run out then fall in to bed" routine that we have most evenings.

Here are some pictures of Kai from his first Memorial Day weekend:

Grandma Eridon was trying hard to get Kai to smile for the camera. He can be a bit stingy with the smiles when the camera is on. Better luck next time!

Here the grandparents are trying to teach Kai to read. He made a lot of progress, I think he should have it pretty well down in the next few years.

Kai loves his baths but doesn't like being naked. Even with a well placed blanket, he was still begging for some clothes!

No one serving as a soldier gets involved in civilian affairs—he wants to please his commanding officer. - 2 Timothy 2:4

4 Months of Parental Bliss

On Friday (May 16th), we celebrated Kai's 4 month birthday by giving him immunizations! Going to the doctor on his monthly birthday didn't seem to be a lot of fun to Kai. Here is Kai's 4 month picture with his monkey "growth chart". He has a pretty awesome smile huh?This week has been pretty eventful. On Monday, Kai had his first international visitor. Our friend Erin is back in the country from the Czech Republic for the next 6 weeks. She was here for some pretty big stuff, but she was still able to sneak away from her other commitments to spend Monday evening with us. We had a great time!

This weekend, Stephanie had a little retreat for the girls in our small group at church, we had 6 yards of mulch delivered, I planted or moved about 20 different plants, we worked on cleaning out our tree line, and the Lesnet grandparents came down to visit. Just another calm, relaxing weekend for the Indiana Lesnets!!

A happy heart makes the face cheerful, but heartache crushes the spirit. - Proverbs 15:13

Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better!

It is a monumental day here in Central Indiana. Today, Malachi James Lesnet rolled over. Yep, on just his 113th day of existence, Kai has rolled over. He did it 3 times so he is now an expert! He is so proficient that we were able to catch him on video!

Kai has really made a lot of strides the past couple of days. One of our friends let us borrow their exersaucer. Kai loves this thing! Here is a picture of him in it on the first day that we brought it home. He has already figured out a few of the items and really likes to beep the horn in the middle of the steering wheel.

On Tuesday and Wednesday we all went up to Chicago. Stephanie had to go to a training event up there so Kai and I went along. Kai did great but mommy and daddy are very tired!

As for a video update, I have figured out how to better use the software that came with the camera. Thank you for the help VerWayne's, but I will stick to my PC thank you very much! You can give a video camera to an accountant, but you can't take the PC away from him!!So Saul said to his attendants, "Find someone who plays well and bring him to me." 1 Samuel 16:17

Moving Pictures!

This year, Stephanie and I received a video camera from Stephanie's parents for Christmas. We had absolutely no intention of video taping the birth of our son, but we did want to get footage of our first moments as a new family. We also wanted some footage of the grandparents meeting their first grandchild for the first time. Our early plans for the camera got blown up though because our young son was breech and was delivered via cesarean.

So, now that we have been parents for 3 months, we are now going to start using our video camera so that we can show off our son's cool moves. Currently, most of our video is of Kai laying on the floor playing with is gym. He is starting to do more all of the time though so this is a good time to get real familiar with the camera.

I have spent the past 3 plus hours trying to figure out how to cut down some raw footage that we shot (because it is funny!). The software that came with our camera is way too basic and the add on's that are included to edit the video puts the file to a format that is only supported by the camera software and can't be uploaded here (or to YouTube). Ugh!

You've seen MTV's "Cribs", where they tour the homes of celebrities. Here is the video of Kai's Crib.

I will post more videos when I find a decent video editing software. I am open to suggestions!!

But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. - Colossians 3:8

The Caterpillar

Okay, I am the ultimate "talk tough" parent. I say that my kid(s) aren't going to be like the typical spoiled American child. Nope, my kid(s) are going to know the meaning of a dollar! My kid(s) are definitely not going to know what it is like to have everything they want. My kid(s) will walk 5 miles to school every day just like their mom and dad did (oh, and it's uphill both ways without shoes [and they'll like it]). I held tight to that belief for a whole 101 days of actually being a parent...ugh! At this time, I would like to introduce to you; THE CATERPILLAR:

Behold, Kai's first material request. On Saturday (4/26), we went to Babies R Us to purchase some new bottles for Kai. As we were walking around the store, I would show various toys to Kai to see his reaction (bad idea). I probably showed him about 20 different toys while we were walking around and he was not interested in any of them. I was very proud of myself and the way that I am raising my son, since it is my great parenting skills that has prevented my son from being materialistic. My pride came crashing to the ground like a ton of bricks when we walked past the hanging toy section. I picked up the above caterpillar and showed it to Kai. His face lit up like the 4th of July. He smiled and cooed at the toy. I was putty in Kai's hands and the caterpillar went in to the cart and it is now in our home. Moral of the story? Dad is both a hypocrite and a sucker!!

We had a very eventful Saturday in addition to our eventful trip to Babies R Us. On Saturday we also cleaned the garage (we can now fit all 3 of our cars in to our 3-car garage!), cooked and froze a lot of food (2 pans of lasagna, 39 pizza burgers, 29 chimichangas, 2 meatloaves), and Kai laughed for daddy. On Sunday, we made it to church, cooked more food (seriously, our chest freezer is almost completely full), went for a walk around the neighborhood, and still found a little time to relax (maybe 10 whole minutes).Last night we had a bit of a scare with Kai. He fell asleep while mom was holding him instead of in his crib last night. After a while, it was my turn and Kai slept on my chest (as pictured above). While he was sleeping on my chest he started screaming like he was in a lot of pain. We took off his clothes and found that his feet and lower legs were bright red, swollen, and really hot to the touch. It was both of his legs so it probably wasn't a bug bite. We called the doctor and stumped him. We were able to get the swelling to go down a bit by keeping his legs elevated above his heart. Once the swelling went down, he fell asleep.

This morning, his feet were still a bit red but other than that he was pretty much back to normal. Stephanie chose to work from home to stay close by. She decided to take him to the doctor for a visit. The doctor checked Kai out but didn't see anything that he was concerned about. At the visit though, they weighed Kai and he is now tipping the scales at a whopping 14.5 pounds.

because of the tender mercy of our God, by which the rising sun will come to us from heaven to shine on those living in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the path of peace. Luke 1:78-79

7 Awesome Days Without Golf Makes One WEAK!!

Spring has most definitely sprung here in Central Indiana! The weather has been unbelievably nice, as we have had sunny skies and highs in the upper 70's to low 80's every day this week. Now that the weekend is here, the weatherman says that we are supposed to get a bit of a cool down with temps peaking at right around 60 with scattered showers and thunderstorms.

So, we've had some awesome weather and all of the Indiana Lesnet's made it through without any one of us getting a sun tan. This is Stephanie's 2nd week back at the old 9-5 and it has been pretty interesting as things are starting to get busier for her there as it is quarterly earnings time for her clients. I've been extra busy at work lately as well because a couple of weeks ago (April 11th), one of my customers at work, Frontier Airlines filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

This awesome weather and too busy to play golf...ugh!!

This is Kai's second week with our nanny as well. Kai really likes Lizzy and we are very happy with the care that Lizzy provides to him. The only thing that is a bit rough (other than leaving our baby boy every day) is that Kai doesn't eat very well for her. Since he doesn't eat very much during the day, he is starving and grumpy when we come home in the evening. We spend nearly every moment that we are home feeding him. Even though we spend nearly our entire evening feeding the boy, we have been able to go for a walk around the neighborhood nearly every night this week. Fortunately, he is still sleeping through the night. If you are looking for something to pray for, you could pray that Kai would eat better for the nanny and that Stephanie and I would figure out how to make our hectic schedules work.

Last Saturday (4/19), we Raced for the Cure!! It was a bit chilly and it was raining pretty heavy in the morning. We planned on walking the 5k route, but we had Kai with us and we didn't want to risk getting our 3 month old little boy sick so we left once the race started. Now, we did park about over a mile from the starting line so I'm sure that we walked every bit of 3 miles while we were down there.

Also on Saturday, Stephanie and I went to the wedding of one of my co-workers. Stephanie and I left Kai with the nanny. It was a nice date night, but we were back home before 10pm.

Here are some pictures that Stephanie took of Kai today.
Ain't he tough?!?!

When a king's face brightens, it means life; his favor is like a rain cloud in spring. How much better to get wisdom than gold, to choose understanding rather than silver! - Proverbs 16:15-16

Happy 3 Month Birthday Kai!!

Hello All,

Today is Kai's 3 month birthday. We celebrated this birthday as we have celebrated each of Kai's other monthly birthdays; we took his picture with a stuffed monkey!! Since we have not put any pictures of Kai and his stuffed friend out here yet, here is a month-by-month pictorial of Kai and his little friend.

In the first picture, he is just 11 days old. Each of the other pictures were taken very close if not on his monthly birthdays.
Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, now that you have tasted that the Lord is good. 1 Peter 2:2-3