Sunday, March 16, 2008

Tooth #3 (upper left) has surfaced! (For reals this time)

Sean's third tooth has finally busted through the crazy gum barrier. You can barely see it but you can tell there's really no going back now. So I guess the upper left tooth has trumped the upper right one and has claimed spot #3 on the tooth list.

As I was just putting him down for his nap, I could hear this awful noise coming from his head, which I think was him grinding his teeth together already. It's not a pleasant noise!

Friday, March 14, 2008

Some recent photos/videos

We are starting to pack up our things in preparation for our move. We came across Dad's Bachelor Bounty headband from a couple of years ago.





Sean loves to look out the window (and put his hand in the dirty windowsill - ugh!).





Sean also likes to try to turn the tv on/off, although he hasn't yet pressed the button hard enough. Once he does I'm sure it will be his new favorite thing. I guess it's good that we don't really watch tv, so we won't care if he just turns it off for us!





Last week when we were all sick there were boxes of tissues lying around. Sean disassembled almost a whole box. Mom reassembled it.





More tissue action. It's so interesting to see how small you can get the pieces!





Mom & Sean both with fevers. :( The weather seems to be matching our mood.





Sean is not a huge fan of his crib. I don't blame him, really. I will be so grateful when he is old enough to sleep in a bed with a pillow and a blanket! Goodness gracious.





I know babies aren't supposed to eat citrus until they are one year old, but Sean LOVES orange juice and oranges. (Remind you of anyone, Grandpa Hogan?) I don't give him too much at a time so as to not upset his stomach, but he enjoys little bites. He also enjoys playing with the peel.





We are loving the nice weather around here! We went to the park last week and played on the swings for a while. That's pretty much all we can play on right now, until Sean gets a little bigger, but he seems to like it.





Sean loves to spin Dad's office chair around.




Sean's new language is explosion sound effects. This is on the tail end of last week's illness, hence the nose-rubbing and the cough (both of which are now gone).





Thank God, we are all feeling better this week!




Thursday, March 6, 2008

I forgot to mention....

Sean took his first two steps last weekend! They were very small and unsure, but they were definitely two completely independent steps. :) So far the feat has not been repeated. It's so much easier to just get on the ground and crawl somewhere, then get up again.

Some recent photos

Last weekend we went to Alexandria, VA to visit Julia & Jason, two good friends from ND. We had a delicious brunch at their house and then walked around Old Town for a while. The weather cooperated - it was sunny and cool, a beautiful day.

Here we are playing with a toy at a shop.





You can see the Capitol in the background. (And no, that's not a UFO on the right, we just had a dirty lens!)





Sean was napping in the carrier, so he had the hood up.





Later he woke up so we let him look around. :)





Back in Hunt Valley at a park playground. Sean likes to inspect the chains on the swings.





Playing at home.





An after-dinner mohawk.



Currently we (Jeff and I) are battling fevers (Sean had his turn yesterday), sore throats, etc. Yuck. I have no idea where we got it. We have been more sick this past year than in the last ten years combined I think. Yikes. I guess that's typical when you have a baby....

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Around the house



More chatter:





Maybe Sean has a future in QA/durability testing with GE Appliances:




Sean, aka "Force of Destruction," likes to put things into disarray. He likes to pull all of our clothes out of the dresser drawers, take anything out of a box, and pull all the books off of the bookshelf: