Bath time again

We still seem to like our bath quite a bit, but the tub seems to be shrinking!

Resting happily afterwards on our fluffy blue dog that Glenn got for us :)

Smiles for miles

Lots of new smiling pictures. All you have to do is make faces at him, and he gets super excited.

Playing with the crazy purple thing

This crazy purple thing is the new popular item. He can grab it's skinny legs pretty easily.

Some cute pictures from November

With the holidays and all, we haven't been keeping up. We took a few pictures over the month that I thought I'd post. Oscar still has a tiny bit of baby acne. I decided not to photoshop it out :)

Laying in bed with Mom. I almost didn't post this because I hate the picture of me, but it's too cute:

On the way to Gran's house:

Just a cutie pie:
Playing model for Dad:

Flying with babies.... some observations

Oscar and I went to see my mother last week in Springfield, MO.  I thought for sure that the karma police were going to get me for all of those times I had complained about babies on airplanes.  I was quite positive that he was going to be a nightmare and I was going to be horribly embarrassed.  Not only did he not cry at all, he even timed his messy diapers so that I wasn't faced with changing them on the airplane!  What a trooper.

Traveling with a baby was interesting.  I discovered a few things:

1. I've never had people be nicer to me.  Seriously.  Not even when I was huge and pregnant were people this nice.

2. I got more random dirty looks from people than I ever have before.  I guess it balances out the niceness.

3. There's no better way to ensure the person sitting next to you will do their best to find a seat ANYWHERE but next to you.  I've never had a really nasty cold work this well.  I swear on the last flight, the guy next to me was willing to give up his first class seat and sit in coach if he didn't have to sit next to me and Oscar.  The flight was full though, so he had to suffer through Oscar's occasional gassy episodes and me fumbling with our belongings.

The blankie game

Our new favorite thing is the blankie game. Paul throws the blankie over Oscar''s face and he gets super excited and works it down. Along the way, he gets really really happy when the satin edge rubs his mouth. When he's crying, you can do this and 99% of the time, he's completely entertained. Don't worry - we don't throw the blanket over him and leave him alone!

Happy Halloween

These uploaded in a funny order. This is after we got home in the evening. I bundled him up in a scarf because it was the handiest thing I had.

Being a sweet baby before bed.
Getting dressed to go out. We found a baby dragon outfit for him. It wasn't exactly as advertised, but pretty cute. Paul put this hat on his (Paul's) head, and Oscar cracked up.

Sitting on my lap. I threw on some skirts, scarves, and too much jewelry and called it a costume.
For a moment, I considered being a dragon eating gypsy :)
Trick or treating. The profile of the back of his costume was precious.
This is what we did the whole time we were trick or treating. not to worry, we had older kids with us that were actually *supposed* to be trick or treating.

Contemplative....

He looks so unhappy in these pictures, but I like to think he's just contemplating things :)

Going to the Market

We went to the farmer's market for the first time today since the Saturday since before Oscar was born. Our favorites breakfast cart, www.pinestatebiscuits.com, is opening a new restaurant and won't be at the market anymore. Bummer.

We bundled him up so much, I think he got hot. This is before we left the house.In the stroller at the market. I stuffed another hat inside of his hood because i was worried about his ears getting cold. It ended up just annoying him.
I got this seat for him to start sitting up in. I knnow it's early, but he seemed to be working it pretty well. If he fell over, I had to help him up, but he sat up for a good long while.

Also, we're wearing our Halloween outfit. This isn't the costume he's going to wear, but this is pretty cute for this time of year.

Getting big.....

Striking a pose while we eat....
This hat is still too big, but it's super cute.
Paul bought him this onesie.

Bouncy Seat Baby

Kinda cute - he gets excited in his bouncy seat now when the little creatures on his mobile go by.
We filmed this today.

My first shot at editing video

This is from August 24, 2007. It's my first shot at editing a video. The background was just me speaking to a friend of ours, about nothing, so it was more fun to put music with it. Hopefully, I'll get a little more skilled over time.

A Few New Pictures

We're trying to make it easier for me to upload pictures so that I update the site more frequently. Hopefully, we're almost there, and there will be more regular posts.


This is one of our sweater outfits. It's still a bit big, but he's 2 months, and this is a 3-6 month outfit.Paul thinks he looks like a Dr. Seuss character in this :)
I can't believe how big he has gotten. You can kind of see my red/orange hair, but not really. It just looks faded here.

Bathtime last night

I made the mistake last night of waking up a perfectly sleeping baby and giving him a bath. We enjoyed the bath, but afterwards, he had a meltdown that I would rather have avoided. That'll teach me to wake up a sleeping baby!

We discovered during the bath last night that even though we LOVE taking a bath, we love getting our ears cleaned even more.

There are a bunch of new posts without much commentary. We just anted to get some pictures posted.
C