Milking it

So I dressed Andy up for daycare in his Tigger costume. We have certainly gotten good use out of it. It's also really warm so I just dressed him in his regular clothes and put the costume on top. It's supposed to be 70 this afternoon so he won't need it later. His babysitter loved it and I ran into one of the other moms who loved it, too. He was a hit with the other kids, too. Andy has no idea why they were all smiling at him (he just assumes they always smile at him, I think, and they probably do). Just precious.

Tonight I think I'll put the costume BACK on and then walk over to see a couple of neighbors. I don't think we'll go door to door.

One more

I like this picture, too. You can really see how blue his eyes are.

Pictures

I took these today and some were too cute not to post.

More Halloween

We're really getting the most out of this Halloween season. Today we went with Andy's friend Sophia who turns one next week to the Halloween Festival in the neighborhood. It was cute with games and a moon bounce, but mostly for older kids. Next year...

Daylight savings time? What's that?

Andy on cue woke up at 5 am (formerly 6 am) this morning. He normally sleeps until about 7 am, but the last few days it was 6 am so I was worried about this morning with Daylight Savings Time sending us back an hour. Fortunately, I was able to tuck him back in and he slept another two hours until 7 am (formely 8 am). I was psyched!

I had a miserable soccer game this morning. We hate this team and even though they were winning, they bitched and moaned about every call. What. Ever. I'm hopeful they get sent back to the upper division where they get their asses kicked, a lot. I know, bitter much?

Sweet thing

He's really pulling up on everything. I have a feeling we're not too far from walking although I have no idea if that's two days, two weeks or two months! Now if we could just get him to wave or say, "Mama."

Playdate

I got together this morning with a friend who has a four-month-old daughter and a friend from college who is due in February. It was nice, but I think the one that's pregnant is now properly freaked out. Andy decided to try to climb into the bouncy seat that Elizabeth was sitting in. Too funny.

More Halloween

Here are some more choice photos from the party yesterday. Just hysterical.

Terrible

So this morning Andy decided he wanted to check out the kitty litter and cat food. I shooed him out of the bathroom where we keep the stuff and in closing the door, managed to wedge his tiny pinky finger in the door. I felt TERRIBLE. He cried - hard. It was awful. He seems recovered although his pinky is a little swollen. I'll keep an eye on it to make sure it returns to its normal size. I doubt he broke it (I wasn't pulling hard!), but you never know with this little chickens.

More Halloween

Some more gems from today. It's close to bedtime here. Andy is running around naked since he has a bit of a diaper rash and I wanted to give it a chance to air dry. I should get a diaper on him sooner rather than later.

Tigger

Andy looked away before I could get his picture and now I'm realizing I didn't get a good shot of him in his costume. This is the best I have...for now.

Halloween

My favorites from the party today.

Clean house day

Today is clean house day as the maids are coming. Well, they're actually here. Of course this would be just as I've put Andy down for a nap. I usually try to get lost when they're cleaning to stay out of their way, but it's rather impossible. I won't trade them being here though. The house looks so much better once they've come, you know, almost livable.

Yesterday Andy and I went with my friend who is a realtor to look at houses. She needed a pretend client to scope things out. She actually didn't NEED a pretend client, but the houses were a couple of neighborhoods over and I always like to nose around. She likes taking me because I have done enough home stuff to point out places that they've messed up (she has that, too, which is why we get along). It was weird, one of the places was empty and they had really tried to start renovating it, but did some wacky stuff, like putting in nice paneling in the living room only to not match the baseboards up with each other and sometimes the floor. Oh, it also had the original oven. Impressive for a 1950 house.

Fall colors

I took this the other night and it was too cute not to post. Seriously, how cute is that?

A tooth?

I think I see signs of Andy's first top tooth coming in. The only thing is that it doesn't appear to be his front teeth, but it seems that it's the one to the right of the middle tooth, which seems so random. My niece (who, gasp, turns one next week!) had her first top teeth be her eye teeth so she looked like a vampire so I guess this is an trait from my side of the family. Aren't genes random? I tried to take a picture of the speck that may or may not be his tooth. This picture was the best I could do. Enjoy.

Halloween

At playgroup on Friday, folks are bringing their kids in costume. It should be fun to see everyone dressed, especiall since it's not like at this age we're really going to be walking them around door to door. I think it gets dark after his bedtime anyway (although that makes me wonder how I'm going to get him to sleep with the doorbell ringing, hmmmm....). We have a Tigger costume that was originally his cousin George's. The label says 18 months and it was too big on him when we dressed him in it a few months ago, but I'm secretly hoping it's too small so I have an excuse to go buy another one. There are just so much fun choices that will be used for blackmail later.

Night fits

It's weird, the last two nights around 9:30 or 10, Andy has woken up very upset. I don't know if it's teething (I'm expecting to see buds on the top at any minute now) or what, but it's strange. He's been pretty difficult to soothe at that point since he's sort of awake, but clearly unhappy. The first night it took about 30 minutes to get him back down and last night only about 20 so that's a start.

Big Blue Bear

Someone sent me a picture of the big blue bear from the Denver convention center. How cool is that?

Yarmulke

Precious angels

Here's a picture from today. It's the best of the lot. Too bad I cropped his head. The hat actually looked pretty stupid so it's probably just as well. I got some cute ones of Mark wearing the hat that looks more like a yarmulke than a baby hat. These men do have enormous noggins though. It's taking ages to upload, but I'm going to try to get them up.