Baby in Blue--7 months

Look how much hair he has now!

Crawling all over (and UNDER!).







These next few are close-ups of his cheeks...just for Kim! :)



Reaching for Mommy's new toy that's always pointed at me!

He likes to feel his new teeth with this tongue...very funny to watch!

This has been his pose for the last few days...sucking his thumb to relieve the pain of teething.



Doesn't he look like Eric here? The next one, too.

Standing up all by myself!

So why did we bother buying baby toys? Take the batteries out, and this will keep him satisfied for SO long!



Yum!

Naptime Surprise

Today I put Jack down for a nap in his Pack 'N Play (at Mullinger's house--where I babysit) and shut the door despite his loud, tearful protests. As I came downstairs I heard him on the monitor, settling down. Moving from cries to babble, I could hear him: "la-la-la Eee-yi-eee-yi-eee-yi la-la-la-la..." and then it was quiet. I was settling down at the table to write a grocery list for Thanksgiving dinner when I suddenly heard a Darth Vader-like breath over the intercom.

My heart lept--was someone in the room? Highly unlikely. Am I hearing things? My thoughts flew to the scene in "Sixth Sense" when they turn up that recording and you can hear people whispering...THAT thought gave me a chill down my spine until I told myself how ridicoulous it was...

So with my heart pounding, I went upstairs to check on my little one. He heard me coming, which is always so funny to me; I think I'm so quiet and sneaky, as I slowly twist the doorknob, and open the door, inch by inch...but he's always staring straight at the door with a smile on his face...like he knew I was there all along.

So today when I opened the door and peaked in, I found him lying on his back in the crib, with the monitor in his mouth!! I hadn't realized that since he is now able to pull up to a standing position, he can reach the cord to the monitor, and he had pulled the whole thing into the crib and was licking the microphone!

As you can imagine, that got a good laugh from Mommy, along with a half-serious, "No, no, Jack!" I had to drag the Pack 'N Play into the middle of the room to insure he couldn't reach anything else from it! Needless to say, he was VERY upset when I deserted him for the second time in five minutes...

I've got a digital camera and I know how to use it!

We must apologize for the large influx of pictures on our post as of late...we just got a digital camera last week, and I have been reveling in the ability to take as many pictures as I want to get a good shot. And, we had friends in town, so of course it was a good excuse to take more pictures! But this morning I finally plugged the camera into the computer and discovered how incredibly EASY it is to load and post pictures...the only difficult part is deciding what pictures to erase and which ones to post.

I know you'll tell me not to apologize (Katie!) and that you love looking at the pictures...and I'm glad.

Time with the Ndjerareous

Jack meets SK and Nate



Your teeth hurt, too?

























Old Friends

Playtime before bed

My new best friend



Helping Mom in the kitchen

A Few Mommy Favorites

The Great Outdoors--Our Backyard

The view from our living room



View from our front door