I just don't get how this is possible:
Alex was happily sucking on his pacifier on minute, then it was stuck to the side of his face perpendicular to his cheek the next. I couldn't have gotten it to stay there if I tried.
Friday, November 6, 2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Car Slippers
My mom sent the boys a Halloween care package (not that there was anything Halloween-related in it, the holiday just served as an excuse to send some clothes she'd bought them) that arrived yesterday. The main purpose was to get us a snowsuit for Alex for our Christmas trip to Santa Fe, but it also included an outfit for Evan. He liked the shirt just fine (it's the one he's wearing in the picture below), but even better were the new car slippers:
I'll let him tell you whether he likes them or not:
I'll let him tell you whether he likes them or not:
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Trick or Treating
As you know from previous posts, Evan was a bunny this year for Halloween. Becoming a bunny doesn't just happen, though -- there is a process involved. First, obviously, you have to put on the costume:
Then you need to add the whiskers and nose:
You've got to make sure for yourself it all looks right:
And finally, you've got to add the hat:
(My timing was a bit off with this shot, but Evan is either coming into or out of a smile, not a grimace.)
So that's Evan. Alex was going to be a teddy bear (you may remember our teddy bear costume from Halloweens past), but it turns out he's not nearly big enough yet to fill out the costume. Instead he went as a baby. Here's the family part way through making the rounds at the neighbors' houses:
We thought we'd bring the dog along with us instead of leaving her home alone to bark at passing kids, but I think in retrospect that was a mistake. She still barked at the passing kids, only this way she was even closer to them, and possibly more freaked out since she could see their fairy, princess, monster, and superhero costumes. We'll figure out some better arrangement next year.
Anyway, here's one final shot of Steph and the boys decompressing after an evening of trick or treating for good measure:
Then you need to add the whiskers and nose:
You've got to make sure for yourself it all looks right:
And finally, you've got to add the hat:
(My timing was a bit off with this shot, but Evan is either coming into or out of a smile, not a grimace.)
So that's Evan. Alex was going to be a teddy bear (you may remember our teddy bear costume from Halloweens past), but it turns out he's not nearly big enough yet to fill out the costume. Instead he went as a baby. Here's the family part way through making the rounds at the neighbors' houses:
We thought we'd bring the dog along with us instead of leaving her home alone to bark at passing kids, but I think in retrospect that was a mistake. She still barked at the passing kids, only this way she was even closer to them, and possibly more freaked out since she could see their fairy, princess, monster, and superhero costumes. We'll figure out some better arrangement next year.
Anyway, here's one final shot of Steph and the boys decompressing after an evening of trick or treating for good measure:
Rabbit Training
Playing with trains while being a bunny... I'm not sure what's left in Evan's bucket list after that:
Bunny Costume
As I mentioned a few posts ago, Evan totally got on board with the bunny costume. Here he is showing off some of the costume's finer points:
This video goes on a little longer than it really needed to, but I forgot to trim it before I took it off the camera and I'm too lazy to go back in after the fact and fix it. Sorry about that, but if you listen at the end you can hear Evan singing quietly to himself, which is often what he does as he's falling asleep as I mentioned before.
This video goes on a little longer than it really needed to, but I forgot to trim it before I took it off the camera and I'm too lazy to go back in after the fact and fix it. Sorry about that, but if you listen at the end you can hear Evan singing quietly to himself, which is often what he does as he's falling asleep as I mentioned before.
Sink Bath
Alex's umbilical cord scab fell off pretty early (about two weeks ago, in fact), and at our last doctor appointment we got the OK to give him a full bath. Trying to bathe an infant in a regular tub is one of the shortest routes to a backache available, and using our baby tub in the past has always seemed to be more work than it's worth (as we found out with Evan and reconfirmed last week), so we decided to just put the plug in one side of the kitchen sink and bathe him there. I didn't get any pictures of the actual submersion but everything went pretty well... except for the fact that Alex hates being cold and/or wet and/or naked, so he pretty much screamed the whole time:
You probably won't remember, but we've got an extremely similar picture of Evan using the same towel, although it looks like there was less screaming involved then.
Speaking of Evan, he wanted to watch when he heard that we were giving Baby Alex a bath so we gave him a front row seat on the action:
Between Steph, Evan and Evan's chair there wasn't much room left at the counter for me to help, so I mainly played the roles of scrub nurse and archivist.
You probably won't remember, but we've got an extremely similar picture of Evan using the same towel, although it looks like there was less screaming involved then.
Speaking of Evan, he wanted to watch when he heard that we were giving Baby Alex a bath so we gave him a front row seat on the action:
Between Steph, Evan and Evan's chair there wasn't much room left at the counter for me to help, so I mainly played the roles of scrub nurse and archivist.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Book Club Costume Party
Steph's New Moms Book Club had an actual book club get together today, and since it is the day before Halloween they arranged to have the kids wear their Halloween costumes, and since the kids were wearing their Halloween costumes they invited dads to join in the fun, and since I'm still working only part time to help us transition to a 4-person household I was able to go. Not being an actual member of the book club I didn't read the book, so I wasn't much of a contributor to their discussion. That left me free to follow Evan around and take pictures of him doing normal kid-at-the-park things in his bunny costume:
I don't know that we've ever actually mentioned it on this blog, but Evan is crazy for bunnies. They might be the only thing he likes more than trucks (might... he really likes trucks). Amazingly enough, we couldn't find a bunny costume to buy in our brief looking around (almost any other animal you can imagine, but no bunnies), so Steph bought a pattern and my mom made the costume while she was staying with us. We were afraid when push came to shove he might balk at wearing the whole outfit -- it's quite a struggle to get him to even wear a jacket, let alone a full body suit -- but he was a more than willing participant (which you'll see in more detail in a couple of posts).
I don't know that we've ever actually mentioned it on this blog, but Evan is crazy for bunnies. They might be the only thing he likes more than trucks (might... he really likes trucks). Amazingly enough, we couldn't find a bunny costume to buy in our brief looking around (almost any other animal you can imagine, but no bunnies), so Steph bought a pattern and my mom made the costume while she was staying with us. We were afraid when push came to shove he might balk at wearing the whole outfit -- it's quite a struggle to get him to even wear a jacket, let alone a full body suit -- but he was a more than willing participant (which you'll see in more detail in a couple of posts).
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Mom and Her Boys
Evan likes to hang around while Steph is feeding Alex so he can help if needed. This usually involves getting things that are just out of reach, like a fresh burp cloth or a water bottle:
How did we manage to do this the first time without a gopher around to help?
How did we manage to do this the first time without a gopher around to help?
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Holding Alex
Evan wanted to hold Alex for the first time tonight, so we finally got the desired "big brother holding little brother" photo you've all been waiting for:
We also took a nice little picture of our family (or at least me, Steph, Evan, and Alex's pacifier):
On an almost entirely unrelated but cute note, before we took these pictures Evan asked to be swaddled in the teddy bear blanket (the brown blanket you can see under Evan's feet), and then he let me carry him around the house and burp him just like we do with Baby Alex. We didn't get any pictures unfortunately, but I wanted to make sure I mentioned it since it was quite adorable.
We also took a nice little picture of our family (or at least me, Steph, Evan, and Alex's pacifier):
On an almost entirely unrelated but cute note, before we took these pictures Evan asked to be swaddled in the teddy bear blanket (the brown blanket you can see under Evan's feet), and then he let me carry him around the house and burp him just like we do with Baby Alex. We didn't get any pictures unfortunately, but I wanted to make sure I mentioned it since it was quite adorable.
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