Impromptu photo shoot

Just because he was wearing a fantastic little outfit.
There is also a hilarious video of him in the bath kick, kick, kickin' his legs. I was downstairs when I heard splashing. I went up to investigate and found Matt soaked from head to toe and Jack laughing hysterically and kicking his legs splashing water everywhere! But since it's a public blog and it's a bath video I'm keeping it to myself.

Little Reader

Here is Jack enjoying his new puppy pillow/mat. Lately we've been using it for reading.

I wonder where Jack learned to smile like that...

See anything familiar?

It's a BOY!!

Cathy woke up on Saturday to broken water so she proceeded to the hospital to start her induction a day early. After 5 hours of Pitocin and 15 minutes of pushing Aidan greeted his parents! Yay to Cathy for pulling off the med-free birth (I must live vicariously when I can).

And in a continuing effort to keep his parents on his toes Jack showed off yet another new skill:

I would consider this to be pretty big. He's still 'Army crawling' so the upper body strength and muscle control I'm sure it took him to lift his arms above his head and reach the stair and pull all the way up on it is HUGE.

Looks like we need another baby gate for the steps now for sure!

From the couch of Emily

I have no desk. I haven't had a desk since January 18th when I left my advising job at UMBC. These are my random thoughts:



My dear friend Cathy was induced yesterday (I assume she did not go into labor between Saturday and Sunday, though we know that it is certainly possible.) She doesn't know if it's a boy or girl, I can't wait to find out. I've been sending all my good karma her way in hopes of a med-free birth, but as I learned the hard way a healthy mom and baby is what's most important. I can't wait to hear from them!



My cousin found out that she's having a girl, and I'm so excited for her. (Secretly I'm a little jealous too because that whole mother - daughter bond is still unknown to me, but no big.) In many ways it was definitely better for me to have a boy first because I didn't go through that 'babies are fragile' thing. That and have you seen how handsome and cuddly my son is?





I love fall! Today is the first day of Fall. I love the leaves and the food and the change in the temperatue which allows for sweaters, and who doesn't love a good sweater!! I'm very excited also because the change in season means upcoming holidays like Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas. All of which I've always looked forward to as a kid dressing up, good food, and basically everything about being jolly respectively.... but now I have a kid... and I get to dress him up in his first costume, let him mush his mashed potatoes in his hands and play in the wrapping paper and boxes until his heart's content. YAY!

The show must go on

Despite a case of the sniffles we braved the cold morning weather and went on an adventure. (I'm not crazy and promise I didn't overdress him, at 7:30am today it was very cold!)Where are we going, Mommy?

On a walk around the lake, Little Man.

Then this afternoon we went to old Ellicott City and wandered in and out of the shops. We had so much fun and there was so much to see. It was a must to use the Baby Hawk because when the buldings were built in the 1800s no one can reasonably expect them to be accessable.

Brought to you by the letter 'B'

Jack likes bananas. Whole, not sliced.

Jack likes boxes.

The best part about this was he crawled over to the box himself and discovered how much fun kicking it was. This went on for 5 minutes it was a riot to see.

Food Glorious Food!

We've been experimenting with food lately because we were given permission to feed Jack adult food at his 6-month check up. We went to Roots and got a bunch of different organic foods that we've been trying. Pineapple, semolina, Scottish oatmeal and blueberry applesauce are all high on the list of new foods Jack is enjoying.

He was VERY disturbed this morning because he had indicated he was no longer hungry before his Scottish oatmeal was finished so I started to eat the rest of it. He did NOT enjoy watching me eat 'his' food. I suppose this is a lesson he will just have to learn, if he's going to eat big-people food, we're going to sometimes eat of his plate, that's just the way it's going to be.

On a slightly related note Matt and I got dangerous with our culinary experimentation last night and made our first Chinese spring rolls. They were delicious! I was in charge of making the stuffing and then actually stuffing and rolling. Matt was in charge of the frying, because the last time we made polenta I was in charge of the frying and I'm still working my way through the PTSD that resulted.

Now here I am, Monday morning and I'm trying to think of something exciting to make for myself. Sadly I think we don't have anything particularly exciting for lunches today... what a let-down!