he prefers to cuddle the couch

He set himself up on the couch, with a pillow, comfortable as can be.  He's quite pleased with himself.

 And a rumor confirmed:

What would your Olympics event be?

Baby's would be 1 Meter Cushion event.

Kooky kid.  He's been doing this for at least 10 monutes.

The big One.

He started out looking like this:

And today he looks like this:

A much happier picture, right?

Family came to town, my parents, two of my sisters, and of Baby's cousins. Also my brother and his family, and Andrew's mom, and brother with his family.  Baby had such a good time playing with the big kids, and they seemed to have a good time with him, too.  There was certainly a lot of laughing, and screaming, and jumping, and running.  Happy kids all around.  

Andrew turned 40.  A big milestone.  It would be fun to see his first birthday picture, and see how much he's changed over the years.  The big celebration really comes in September/October with a trip to the east coast to see friends and family, and the leaves changing (hopefully).  

It's been a crazy, tiring, wondrous year.  Happy birthday to both my guys.

Summer is hot.  Baby often ends the day with a damp head, poor kid.  Plus we've started feeding him a bit more solid food, and that gets into the mix (yuck).
He's such a slasher that we've graduated him to the big tub just to keep the floor dryer.

11 months and counting

Something happened this past week: this guy turned 11 months.

He cralwsnup.on his hands, he can get up.the single.stair in our living room, and back down again.  He can.pull himself up from laying to sitting.  He's off like a shot, the I mentioned you put him down.  It takes two to change his clothes, or his diaper.

 Doors are serious work.  As are the blinds on the patio door.  He loves to rub his head on you like a cat marking it's territory.  And he's just gone from 2 solids a day to three.
Love our tiny guy.

Don't drink and boat

The captain has been hitting the bottle again.

Tiny guy has been sick this past week.  He felt warm mid week, and like the experienced mother I am, I waited a day to check his temperature.  A fever!  Nice one, Mom.  But he was acting as cheerful as ever, so we gave him a cool bath and some medicine, and called the pediatrician first thing in the morning.  

Then the rash appeared. Baby has been a healthy baby (if you forget the 11 days in the NICU and 2 months on Oxygen) so a common, fairly harmless, though uncomfortable virus made me pretty nervous.  I was on the phone with the doctor every 8 hours (he's got a fever! He's got a fever and a rash!  He doesn't have the fever any more but there's still the rash!) and it's fine, he's fine, it just has to follow it's course.  Cuddles, liquids, and Tylenol if he's uncomfortable.  He's a little clingy, and whiney, but at least he slept through the night last night.

A couple videos

Fun at the doctors' office.