Life with Kolby, in Numbers

Number of times we’ve watched the entire TV series Arrested Development together: 4

Percent of the time I can come into the office while he is busy writing poems and he’ll let me sit in his lap for a few minutes and shoot the breeze: 90

Inseam of the jeans I had to buy him to wear with his new cowboy boots: 36

Number of days each week he packs me a lunch: 4

Percent of grocery shopping that he does: 75 (I’m a lucky girl)

Inches taller he is than me: 9.5

Number of times this week he has laughed out loud at the new Cheetos commercial: 4

Percent of the time he will sing along with me or dance around with me when I ask him to: 70

Percent of the time he will dance around with me if he is wearing his new cowboy boots: 90

Percent of the time he will dance around with me if he is wearing his new cowboy boots and I play this: 100

Months since we started dating: 123

Fights/Arguments we’ve had since we’ve been married: 0.5

Number of times we’ve raised our voices at each other: 1

Clean rooms in our house right now: 2

Number of times we have mopped the floors since we bought our house in 2009: 3 (yes I know, gross)

Number of kitchen drawers we have at this house: 1

Number of nights since being married that we forgot to kiss each other goodnight before falling asleep: 0

Number of times this week I heard monkey sounds coming from the shower because the water was too hot or too cold when he stepped in: 3

Number of foods I have ever heard him say that he doesn’t like: 1 (mushrooms)

Odds that I can talk him into an afternoon family nap on a Sunday: 1 in 10

Number of times in any given day that he’ll speak for Maya, in the voice we came up with for her: 2-3

Number of books he’s read out loud to me: 5

Number of minutes it takes for our electric blanket to warm our sheets before we go to bed: 15

Number of people we had over for Life Group last night (bi-weekly Bible study through our church): 14

Number of chairs to spare at Life Group last night: 0 (if our group continues to grow, which I hope it does, we'll be left with an office chair on wheels, Maya's dog bed, and the toilet as our best options for additional seating)

Poems that he will have published this year: at least 2

Months until he'll graduate with his MFA: 7

Number of times we've stayed up past midnight in the past year: 3-4, at best

Minutes until bedtime tonight: 10