Harry on the Playground (WITH VIDEO!)

So we had Couples Group last night and fifteen kids showed up. In order to save the house we were meeting at from total destruction we headed to the local playground. Harry is very serious about the playground, pausing to laugh only when he actually going down the slide. More pictures here.

But now we enter new ground for the Hart Herald: the embedded YouTube video.




There are funnier videos of that little girl assaulting Harry with kisses but they would probably be flagged as inappropriate by YouTube.

The Eyes

Yikes!

Chiemingo Family Visit

Amy's folks came down on Sunday to visit and see the new addition. We had a good time, ate some stuffed NJ tomatoes and just sort of hung out. A couple of pictures follow.

The Other Delivery

So while I was sitting in the waiting room, waiting for the doctor to shove a needle into Amy's spine and numb the pain, I checked my phone messages. Lo and behold Briley Manufacturing had called to say the shotgun barrel and sub gauge insert tubes were being shipped from Texas.

So we had another delivery on Monday.
Shown here are Great Grandfather's refinished Remington 1900 and the two anodized aluminum insert tubes from Briley.

The tubes help reinforce the hundred year old barrels and make the gun safe to shoot. They also take the gauge down from a 12 ga shell (green) to a 20 ga (yellow). 20 ga is the minimum required to put down really nasty perps like lawyers.

Installing the tubes is easy, you grab a rubber hammer and tap them into place. Here they are nearly completely installed and it's a tight fit. I really can't wait to get Dad and Jeff together and go break some clays.

More Eleanor Photos

We've updated the gallery a bit to include pictures from the recent visits of my parents and Christin. Here's a quick sampling.

A Guest Post - A Musing on "Cuteness"

My name is Harrison Hart and I'd like to take a moment of your time to discuss a topic near and dear to my heart - cuteness. "Dada" is napping right now, poor guy was up all night once again caring for the new arrival. He left me with a video I've seen perhaps two score times and I do believe I finally tire of being instructed by sock puppets on how the typical day goes on the farm. "Moo-moo, oink-oink," I get it. And I really didn't need to know where eggs come from.

Anyway, Dada foolishly left his email up and logged on and I've been perusing some of the responses to his announcement email. "Adorable... So cute... Doesn't look like Dada." I must say I've about had it with these pronouncements. What do you know of cuteness? Let me instruct you as I am, humbly, a true student of the concept.

Cuteness is more than a big head and the proper ratio of eye:nose size. Sure Eleanor has a big head, that's been discussed here already, and her eyes are both large and nicely almond shaped, but these are just the superficial aspects of cuteness. Where's the clever retort using just a syllable or two?

"Would you like to watch a video on where eggs come from?"
"No."
"Ahh, it's so cute when you don't understand what I'm asking you."

I'm sorry, that was really more irony I guess but you get the idea. Eleanor doesn't do anything. She just sits there. If you step on her face, she barely even cries. That's not cute, that's odd.

Uh oh, the big one stirs. I will try to elaborate in future posts but for now I must say "buh-bye."

I will have a more detailed timeline of events in future posts but for now let me announce the arrival of Eleanor Jang Hart at 9:02pm on August 8th, 2007. She weighed in at 7lbs 15.5oz and a length of 20 7/8in. Both Mom and Baby are doing well.

So I will leave you with some pictures. Feel free to try to determine who she looks like. A slightly more expansive gallery can be found here.



Today, after some rest, she calmed down a bit and took on a more serene mood.