Starting Solid Food YIPEE

We just got Oliver's passport in the mail today. Rebecca and I took the boys down for the passport photos one morning after m/b yoga. Joe started his vacation yesterday, so we have 2 weeks to relax and enjoy our little family. We'll probably go get a tiny, tiny tree (no room) this week. We just bought a highchair today and we're starting solid food this weekend - exciting! (for food nerds anyhow). In January we go to Monterrey, so Oliver will get to see the ocean and hang out at the beach for a few days and I can get my feet wet with air travel with baby.

 

Lots of Hair and a Chinny Chin Chin

Oliver is totally wonderful. I can't wait for you to see him and vice versa. He is growing a lot of hair, filling out, getting round, another chin, a really fun personality, very kiss-y, loves to touch the other babies, found his penis this week, tries to drink from a glass, is very loving, wakes up and beams at me in the morning. Ah...I am just in mommy heaven. Joe starts his vacation this weekend and we are going to introduce solid foods as he is totally ready and excited about what we are eating. Things have been nuts. Getting exercise and spending time with Rebecca and Emma and boys has been the most wonderful thing this fall when all of a sudden, we get this 2-3 week period of monsoon rains/flooding, followed by a week of wind from hell and power outtages, followed by a week of beautiful snow, but with temperatures in the teens, too low and cold to venture out with Oliver. I will bundle him up and take him out when it is in the 30's, but nothing below that. So we were cooped up for awhile and I almost went insane.

Christmas Yogamammas Potluck

4.5 Months and growing like a bean!

Singing in the Rain

Turkey day I am cooking a bird, Joe is doing salmon and we have invited the Fosters, Rebecca, Carter, and Rowan (who are trying to find an affordable beach getaway and might not be with us), our friends Jo Marie, Sue, and Steve, and Chad, Emma, and Parker from Jersey Street, and whomever else. Just potluck around 3-ish. Low-key.

How 'bout those Democrats!!????!!! Last night at 10:00 I told Joe that I pictured Dianne doing crazy repetitive cartwheels in their living room - she has been working SO hard for the democrats. And Rumsfelds resignation. YEAH!!!!!!

So on Monday morning it was raining sideways and I was literally pacing the kitchen with Oliver. I picked up the phone, called Rebecca and said 'I am going nuts.' She said 'I was just going to call you and tell you that I was going nuts!' So we bundled ourselves and the boys and walked all over Bellingham in the rain - to get their passport applications, to the co-op. The little guys loved it and we realized that it wasn't cold, just damp. On Tuesday we walked to yoga. Today was lovely and we walked to the library and got kiddo cd's, books, to the bank, to the co-op. At the library, the two boys were looking at each other and smiling and Oliver reached out both of his hands and touched Rowans hands. It was TOO cute. Rowan's eyes are the most beautiful blue. Oliver is a riot - he gets the giggles and smiles a ton. You are going to love him.

Da Boyz in the Hood

So have I mentioned the challenge of holding a squirming baby while focusing a camera (on moving babie(s)? Moooo

Halloweeners

Thought you'd get a kick out of this - Oliver's first Halloween party hosted by Parker's mother Emma - left to right - Parker the Pumpkin, Rowan the Dragon, Oliver the Holstein, Araya the Pea Pod, and Bjorn the Lion. Note how Oliver and the Pea are having a grope and the Pea is making a move on both boys. It was mayhem. Laughing, crying, and lots of baby puke. Too funny...