Three New Haircuts

B finally cut his hair (and shaved off the mustache!!!!) a week ago. Hooray!



My hair had gotten pretty long (I forgot a before shot) and had gotten to the point where I was just wearing it up every day... which means goodbye long hair.



Baby X got his first real haircut with the clippers and all (before we've just trimmed him with scissors). He looks like a completely different kid to me. I'm not sure if I like it yet or not.

Here are some before, during and after shots. He was super cute afterward... B turned on the clippers to clean them and he came over and had B pick him up and then leaned his head toward B and held really still.

Dogs play Frisbee

Buddy has been pretty obsessed with dogs for the last bit. Not real ones, although he says he wants a dog the kind of dog he wants is one that stays a puppy forever. He's got a collection of stuffed animal dogs that travel around with us frequently and he enjoys playing like he's a dog. B overheard this conversation the other day between Buddy and Princess Sparkley:

Buddy: People don't play frisbee. Dogs play frisbee.

Which prompted B to explain how two people can play frisbee, not just a person and a dog. He's a funny kid.

Baby X: week by week

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Here's the final project. Baby X with his alligator each week in a onesie and each month in just a diaper. Week 3 and Month 1 are near the dates they should be and are the same picture, no alligator, in the hospital when he had his heart procedure.

Birthday Monster*

Here's Baby X on his actual birthday. He threw up first thing in the morning and then again in the late afternoon and evening. But in between he had an okay day. It's currently late morning the day after his birthday and he hasn't thrown up since last night. This isn't a huge guarantee though since he's gone an entire day between throwing up. He drank lots of water last night and today and even had some crackers in addition to his little bottles I've been trying to get him to drink every few hours.

*If you didn't notice, the book he's peeking through/chewing on is Birthday Monsters by Sandra Boynton.

12 months aka 1 year

Birthday Boy

So, technically Baby X's first birthday is tomorrow, January 26th, but we celebrated it with a little family party tonight.

Baby X had carrot cake cupcakes that, just like his big brother on his own first birthday, he didn't want anything to do with.

His big present was a pretend piggy bank that he enjoyed at a friend's house last week so we got him his own. The picture of two pigs having a tea party on the bottom row was PS's idea... it's Buddy's real piggy bank and the new toy one Baby X got.

*note: The flu hit our house this weekend, Buddy Friday night and Baby X Saturday night so he wasn't quite himself for his little birthday celebration. Poor kid.

Baby X at almost a year

Notice his tongue in most of these pictures.

1 week. 52 weeks.

*Once I take his 12 month alligator picture tomorrow,
I'll collage all these in order and you can see how he's grown week to week.

52 Weeks!

My baby boy is 52 weeks old (somehow that I don't want to think too hard about, this is not on his birthday. His one year birthday is Monday, this picture was taken Saturday).

At the very beginning of this video, Baby X licks B's hair and pulls his head away in disgust. Then I kept filming hoping to get it again... better. It was so funny. Just the way his head was, and how long B's hair is, he kept licking it and grossing himself out. So hilarious.

Up the Stairs

Baby X has been doing the stairs for awhile but has gotten a lot better at them lately. AND... he even does pretty well going down. We still have to be right with him in case his legs get caught or he gets distracted. He also started crawling off our bed and our couch feet first a couple of weeks ago. There's still usually a big fall at the end, or we have to help him, but he's trying.

Baby X walking

Officially, Baby X took his first tentative steps in early December at 10 1/2 months. The first time he put more than 1 or 2 steps together was Dec. 10. And he kept that up for a few weeks. On December 28th we realized that walking has truly become his way of getting around. This video is from Saturday, January 17th... a little over a week before his first birthday.



*video with sound courtesy of my new digital camera

Buddy builds a puzzle

We have lots of kid puzzles, but the way my kids play, it's a pain to get them out because I know that at some point, most of the pieces will end up on the floor or lost. Buddy got B 1000 piece puzzle for Christmas that B did the other night (yes, he does them very quickly) and he left up up for the kids to see the finished product the next day. Buddy kept taking a corner apart and rebuilding it, so we opened up this dinosaur puzzle he got from his cousin C for Christmas. He has a great time building it with his daddy (even though the dinosaur was a little scary). Every time he got a piece in the right spot he'd get a huge grin and cheer for himself.

51 weeks

Cute Kids

You can see his eyes aren't as crystal clear blue as the older kids.
They are still blue, but a gray-blue, or a hazel blue.

PS loves being a big sister. She'd hold him and
carry him around all day if he (or I) let her.

Snowman

After several days (that felt like weeks) of temperatures in the teens and single digits, it warmed up a bit today (just barely) and snowed last night so we woke up to white everywhere. It wasn't a ton of snow, but enough to play in.

P.S. I'm loving the pictures from my new camera.

New camera

I've been wanting this camera:

Nikon D40

But it retails for just under $500, and I don't even think that's including the lens. I was saving up for it, but something more important to spend the money on kept coming along. So when my parents sent some money for me for Christmas this year I decided to add a bit to it and buy myself a better camera, if not my dream camera. Meet my new camera:

Nikon Coolpix S210 (in plum)
What you can't tell from this picture is how incredibly thin it is. .71 inches.
Oh, and it films with sound. (Loud clapping from all of this blog's readers.)

On our last trip to St. Louis we stopped at Circuit City in Columbia, MO (they've shut down all the Kansas City locations and supposedly have good sales at all other locations). I saw this camera and liked it a lot. My old camera was also a Nikon Coolpix. Circuit City didn't have any in stock. Nor did any of their locations in the St. Louis area. Or online. So I started shopping ads and found it on sale at Best Buy this weekend. I placed an online order and picked it up today.

Here are the few sample shots from my exciting day at home unpacking and doing laundry:

Do they look better?

Fun pictures of Baby X in January

Trying to escape during week 49's alligator picture.

Cutie.

What a face!

50 weeks

49 weeks