Meeting Captain Kurt

My friend Kurt came to visit last week. He was kind enough to drive 8.5 hours from Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama just to meet Elaina and spend the weekend with us. I especially enjoyed conquering another Durham golf course with him. (actually, "conquering" is a very strong word for what we did there, but we enjoyed it).

Kurt's a Captain in the Air Force JAG Corps but that didn't intimidate Elaina when she met him--she looked him square in the eye and gave a firm handshake.




As if a visit from a friend we hadn't seen in a year and a half weren't enough, Elaina added some more exitement to the weekend by starting to pull up on things... beginning with the bumper in her crib. We had to lower her mattress all the way down and became a little sentimental about how she has grown and changed since we first laid her in the crib almost nine months ago.

This weekend I'm studying for my final exam in Real Estate Finance... a surprisingly interesting and useful course. Naturally, I had a couple of ladies distracting me from my studies, but I didn't mind///' [Right on cue, Elaina just added the inappropriate characters at the end of that last sentence. She's getting fairly mobile with her rolling and half-crawl-lunges and she's a big fan of the keys on my laptop.]



I officially passed the halfway mark in my law school career this summer; as of this Friday I will have completed 18 courses. May 2011 doesn't seem that far away anymore. Then, I'll be joining Kurt in the JAG Corps (he's got a pretty good gig there).

Just kidding, Mom. No need to worry yet.