For some reason Steph didn't see fit to eat the Raisin Bran that came with her breakfast, but Evan was more than willing to help out (although he was mostly just fishing for raisins):
Monday, October 5, 2009
More (of the Same) Visitors
Everyone who's staying at our place (which includes me this time around, plus Steph's sister Kim and her boyfriend Bill who were in town for a friend's wedding) made another trip to the hospital this morning to visit with Steph and Alex. I didn't get very many pictures of every else, but I did get this nice one of Steph breastfeeding Alex:
For some reason Steph didn't see fit to eat the Raisin Bran that came with her breakfast, but Evan was more than willing to help out (although he was mostly just fishing for raisins):
For some reason Steph didn't see fit to eat the Raisin Bran that came with her breakfast, but Evan was more than willing to help out (although he was mostly just fishing for raisins):
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Big Brother
Sheilagh and Megan left the hospital an hour or so after Alex was born but they came back again later in the morning with everyone else from home, namely Big Brother Evan. Evan likes babies a lot, and we've been talking about the impending arrival of Baby Alex for the last month or so to get him excited about having a little brother. I think it worked pretty well, because when he got here he blew right past me and Steph looking for Baby Alex. As you can see, he was pretty curious about the little guy:
Not only did Evan get a baby brother, but Alex was also thoughtful enough to get Evan a new convertible car! With flames on it! You can't see it very well in these pictures, but you'll have to take my word for it that it's pretty cool:
Evan didn't spend all his time here fixated on Alex, though. He also found the time to help me post these pictures:
Also, since the lighting was much better with the sun being up and all we took the opportunity to take some better pictures of our little family:
Not only did Evan get a baby brother, but Alex was also thoughtful enough to get Evan a new convertible car! With flames on it! You can't see it very well in these pictures, but you'll have to take my word for it that it's pretty cool:
Evan didn't spend all his time here fixated on Alex, though. He also found the time to help me post these pictures:
Also, since the lighting was much better with the sun being up and all we took the opportunity to take some better pictures of our little family:
Alexander Scott!
We were oh so close to maintaining our on-time delivery record, but there are some things you just have to wait for, like Alexander Scott Metz:
He was born at 1:03 AM this morning (he was due yesterday), weighed 8 lbs. 0 oz., and was 20" long:
Steph's mom Sheilagh and sister Megan came to the hospital with us to help with the delivery while my mom and Steph's dad stayed home with Evan:
Unfortunately the lighting was really low this time around so our pictures aren't that great. Here is the best one we got of our growing little family:
He was born at 1:03 AM this morning (he was due yesterday), weighed 8 lbs. 0 oz., and was 20" long:
Steph's mom Sheilagh and sister Megan came to the hospital with us to help with the delivery while my mom and Steph's dad stayed home with Evan:
Unfortunately the lighting was really low this time around so our pictures aren't that great. Here is the best one we got of our growing little family:
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Baby Brother Bunny
In preparation for bringing his own baby brother home any day now, Steph's parents brought Evan a baby brother for his favorite bunny rabbit:
His name is Baby Brother Bunny (we're not the most creative namers of stuffed animals around here).
His name is Baby Brother Bunny (we're not the most creative namers of stuffed animals around here).
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Race Car Jeans
One of Evan's favorite pair of jeans has been wearing pretty thin at the knees, and last week both finally gave up the fight and ripped into full-on holes. Fortunately Grandma was here and eager for things to do, so she put some race car patches on them:
This instantly promoted them to always-first-choice-whether-they're-clean-or-not status.
This instantly promoted them to always-first-choice-whether-they're-clean-or-not status.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Backfilling
This is the first of what will hopefully be many entries about historical posts we've backfilled recently. Since a little more than a week ago we've added the following old posts:
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Friday, September 11, 2009
We're Back
All right, our blog has been dark for almost a year now... sorry about that. I've been pretty busy at work, we've been very busy with Evan, all the normal excuses. Anyway, we did a bunch of organizing of kid-related things last weekend in preparation for the new baby (in case you didn't know, Steph is due to deliver our second son in 3 weeks), and the healthy dose of "here we go again" left us newly-committed to maintaining this blog better going forward. To help in this regard, Steph is going to be writing posts as well this time around.
That's fine and good from here on out, you say, but what about what's happened over the last 10 months? We've got a plan for that. We'll fill in historical posts as we can get to them. Obviously, that in and of itself isn't much of a plan. Here's the plan part. I date our posts by when the events being described occurred, so entries appear on the blog in the order things happened, not necessarily in the order we write about them. This means that historical posts won't show up at the top of the blog, and if they're far enough back in time you might have to do some serious digging to find them. To mitigate this issue, once a week (probably on Saturday, but I won't make any promises) I'll add a post dated when it's published listing the historical posts we've written that week for those who just check in periodically.
An even better way for you to address this problem (if you even feel it is a problem that needs to be addressed) is to subscribe to updates yourself, either through a reader application (like Google Reader, for instance) or email using the sections on the sidebar to the right. Here's the previous post I wrote about subscribing to updates for some background info, in case you're interested. Note that subscriptions are handled through FeedBurner now, not RssFwd, so the concerns I raised about the up-and-up-ness of RssFwd no longer apply.
In the meantime, I added posts for each month we missed, starting with December '08, with a selection of photos for that month. There will eventually be real posts giving context and humorous anecdotes for all those photos and then some, but the pictures themselves should be better than nothing. Enjoy!
That's fine and good from here on out, you say, but what about what's happened over the last 10 months? We've got a plan for that. We'll fill in historical posts as we can get to them. Obviously, that in and of itself isn't much of a plan. Here's the plan part. I date our posts by when the events being described occurred, so entries appear on the blog in the order things happened, not necessarily in the order we write about them. This means that historical posts won't show up at the top of the blog, and if they're far enough back in time you might have to do some serious digging to find them. To mitigate this issue, once a week (probably on Saturday, but I won't make any promises) I'll add a post dated when it's published listing the historical posts we've written that week for those who just check in periodically.
An even better way for you to address this problem (if you even feel it is a problem that needs to be addressed) is to subscribe to updates yourself, either through a reader application (like Google Reader, for instance) or email using the sections on the sidebar to the right. Here's the previous post I wrote about subscribing to updates for some background info, in case you're interested. Note that subscriptions are handled through FeedBurner now, not RssFwd, so the concerns I raised about the up-and-up-ness of RssFwd no longer apply.
In the meantime, I added posts for each month we missed, starting with December '08, with a selection of photos for that month. There will eventually be real posts giving context and humorous anecdotes for all those photos and then some, but the pictures themselves should be better than nothing. Enjoy!
September '09
Some pictures from September (so far)...
Covered in stickers:
Lounging around and showing off his Cookie Monster socks (which we finally talked him into wearing after months of admiring them in the drawer):
Covered in stickers:
Lounging around and showing off his Cookie Monster socks (which we finally talked him into wearing after months of admiring them in the drawer):
August '09
Some pictures from August...
Drawing with Aunt Megan in her apartment:
With Dad on the train at Oak Meadow Park:
Crazy morning hair:
Celebrating his new sheets and comforter:
Drawing with Aunt Megan in her apartment:
With Dad on the train at Oak Meadow Park:
Crazy morning hair:
Celebrating his new sheets and comforter:
July '09
Some photos from July...
With cousins Delaney, Riley and Paige on the 4th of July:
At Newport Beach on the 4th:
Taking a break during the 4th of July festivities:
Perched atop the neighbor's antique fire truck (yes, the neighbor's fire truck):
Wearing goggles, just because:
Trying out his new big boy bed (in the daytime):
Proud of his bandaids:
Babysitting Clayton:
With cousins Delaney, Riley and Paige on the 4th of July:
At Newport Beach on the 4th:
Taking a break during the 4th of July festivities:
Perched atop the neighbor's antique fire truck (yes, the neighbor's fire truck):
Wearing goggles, just because:
Trying out his new big boy bed (in the daytime):
Proud of his bandaids:
Babysitting Clayton:
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