6 1/2 Months

Who you callin a girl??!!


Our antidote to "Jesus Camp", Simon is "free to be whatever I want to be"...so long as it's not really boxing, I don't think I could take that.

We're definately teething, you can see the two bottom teeth coming in, one has partially broken through. We bought Simon this vibrating teether toy, you should have seen his eyes when he bit down. HEAVEN.


Simon does his Costello impersonations in these specs.


Really starting to dig the jolly jumper thing.

"SHE's so adorable"

Everyone thinks Simon is a girl...I know it's the hair. Whaddya gonna do?

Buenos Dias!

I love my morning hair!

Mom, you've gone too far.

The Seattle Gang

This crew has been together from the beginning. How in the world do you survive parenthood without other comrades of beautifully non-perfect babies? What's priceless in this video is all the different personalities that are starting to come out. I think the ending is perfect, notice Simon stops crying and starts grinning once he gets a hold of Sophia's skirt. He's a ladies man.

Mother's Day

Mother's Day weekend the babes and their parents had BBQ at Ami, Chris & Miles' casa. It's pretty cool to see everyone grow, change and progress. Ash had the bright idea to get a group shot, that went OK for about 5 seconds, then it quickly went down hill from there...(see video clip too). On Mother's Day, dad gave mom an extra hour or so of sleep in the morning, made me breakfast and later we went to see La Boheme with Chris. Had steak and good wine for dinner along with an encore presentation of "Anchorman" to balance out the evening. Motherhood rocks!

Simon is pretty strong, likes to push up when he's on his tummy. He's getting frustrated not being able to get places, but not really rocking or rolling much yet. That is just fine with us, we wouldn't mind only having to baby proof one house.

Simon's a terrible driver, he never uses his turn signal and is much more interested in looking at chics or his buddies than the road.

L-R is Henry, Luke, Miles, Simon & Sophia.

A shot of Simon going for Sophia's skirt and Sophia desperately trying to find her happy place with all those boys screeching and Simon assaulting her.

Poses

Ash dresed him in his best clothes and tortured him with pictures for thirty minutes. They came out cute, though.



Tell me this isn't ready for some fashion catalogue.

With Uncle Rich
With Uncle Scot

Eating food

Faces - captions.

I don't know what to make of these - we still love him, though. [Okay, so I gotta do this...]

"So, this guy walks into a bar with a duck on his head - stop me if you've heard this one..."

"Quick, Mom, measure this bubble, I think it's my personal best."

"I says to the guy 'Crazy eye?! Crazy eye?! I'll show youse a crazy eye.'"

"My head looks gi-normous from that perspective doesn't it? Take a flattering one, Dad. I've had enough of this ..."

First "Solid" Food

Sweet Potatoes. Simon's first meal on the day of his sixth month of life, May 5th. He made faces at first and wasn't quite sure what to think but he took to it. He even took the spoon and fed himself a bite or two. A lot did get into his mouth but as you can see plenty ended up elsewhere. At breakfast today he ate bananas in an impromptu feeding. He really liked those.