Hyrum's True Love de Jour

"Daddy, do we have to do this?"

As you said, Hyrum, I've been itching for it since you were a twinkle, and now I've figured out a way to do it. I'll replace it just as soon as you talk in adorable sentences and say 'the darn'dest things.' Besides, it's all in the name of cuteness.

"Well ... if it's cute, alright."

And now, ladies and gentlemen, may I draw your attention to the right where you will find a new feature, "Hyrum's True Love of the Day." Hyrum throws himself into anything that takes his fancy with a passion. Some of them last for months, some for only a day. What floats his rubber ducky today? Find out on the handy little list on the right.

Today's true love, for instance, is the song "Seventy-Six Trombones" from The Music Man. After I read him a scripture story, we watch it on TV and then I put in something he has never seen before to try to expand his repertoire. That's how he got introduced to the oft-mentioned Firebird Song, Duck Song, Whale Song, and so on. Today I asked him which DVD he wanted to see and he picked the never-opened copy of The Music Man. I knew he had liked 76 Trombones back at Thanksgiving, so thought I'd reintroduce it to him in living color. The whole rest of the morning, it was all we could do to get him to ask for "more peaches" for breakfast, so eager was he to ask for and conduct the "Trombone Song."

This life is a test

I'm actually creating this account mostly so I can make comments on the blogs of some of our dear friends who recently let us in on theirs. But I'll probably end up recording some of our happy information here for their benefit as well. It's been a very happy thing, being able to be part of friends' lives even when we're far apart. This will make the communication a bit more two-way.

For those random surfers who just happened to find us, you have reached the blog of Derrill and Joy Watson, two newlyweds (a mere 911 days thus far - a blissful drop in the bucket of Heaven) out in Ithaca, NY. Derrill goes to Cornell, and should be graduating with a Phud in development Economics this year. Joy goes to his head, and should be delivered of a baby boy, Hyrum Spencer, sometime in early/mid March. She is currently vacationing with my parents in Santa Barbara, CA, after spending two weeks caring for my grandmother in St. George, UT. The picture was taken at my parents' house when we were there last Christmas. It'll be another two weeks until we're together, and we miss each other with great pinings.

Hmmm, this is starting to look like a real posting. I'd better cut it out now before it does and the habit is firmly entrenched. (Oh, but it wants to be entrenched, my precious.)