Happy Birthday little man

Jack turned 2 this past week.  My running joke is that now he has the age to back up his behavior!    He’s impossible not to adore though, with his infectious smile and zest for life (I joke that Jack likes to live life “out loud”, emphasis on “loud”).  He’s also very squarely a mama’s boy, which is fine by me.  I love getting my snuggles from Jack.  Despite that, he went to Mother’s Morning Out this week for the first time!  And they didn’t even have to call me to come and get him. 

Happy Birthday baby boy.

Hmm what is this?

I think I like it!

Cute boy!

Horrible squinty picture of me, but too cute of him not to post.

Time for a photo update

Some obligatory pictures of the cute boy:

From Halloween…don’t you hate it when someone shows up wearing the same outfit? Jack with his cousin Cameron, who is 5 weeks younger than him.

Charlie the apple-juice-running-shoe-upside-down-butterfly-fairy. With bolero sweater.

Pumpkin pickin!

Although ironically, we did not actually purchase any pumpkins. There is a pumpkin farm here that puts on quite a show for this time of year…rides, swings, games, pumpkin cannons, hay maze, etc etc. It’s quite a zoo. At $8 per head to get into the joint, I guess they’d better have some stuff to do other than just buy a pumpkin LOL! Of course they also have pumpkins, all shapes, sizes and colors. We decided to forgo the pumpkins for now though, until we get into our new house. Supposedly it will be finished this Friday (19th)…it was supposed to be the 12th but has been pushed back again.

Anywho. Charlie had a good time, although she didn’t sleep well last night and was a bit “on the edge” the whole time we were there. She doesn’t deal well with things when she’s not well rested, but she managed to not throw a fit (oh how I love this age) about anything, whew. Is it sad that I’m happy about that? My standards for good social behavior have obviously dropped fairly low.

Photos can be found here. I’m too lazy to upload them over here also, so go check them out if you’re interested!

Charlie’s first "real" haircut

I’ve generally been happy to just trim Charlie’s hair myself. Until somewhat recently she had some cute big baby curls in her long hair, but as she’s gotten older they have gone away. *sobbing* Oh how I loved those curls! Cursed with pin-straight fine blond hair myself, I desperately hoped that she had gotten Dave’s wavy blond curls instead. Grass is always greener, and all that. So anyway, her longer hair tends to look stringy quickly, so I took her today to get it cut into a short bob. Of course, we had to have a photo shoot!

And my poor baby boy who is now nearly completely bald…but in his defense, he is growing new hair at a wicked fast rate! It feels like peach fuzz now and I see quite a bit of it in the light. Still, sigh.

Male Pattern Baldness…

…sets in early in our family, apparently.

Kid updates

Charlie has settled in pretty well to having a new brother. She’s still being a bit more “high maintenance” than usual, but overall I’m very proud of her. She’s very sweet on Jack himself, and apparently at her preschool they hear ALL about him.

Here is a picture of her showing that moses baskets aren’t JUST for little babies:

And one to prove that she *doesn’t* look hungover in EVERY photo we take:

Jack has been great…he generally still sleeps a lot and hasn’t been too much of a pain at night. He eats well and is growing, he was 8 pounds 4 oz at his 2-week doctor’s appointment! They were amazed, they usually just want to see babies back up to birth weight by that age, but he’s put on a pound and a half over that. The boy likes to eat LOL!

The obligatory cute sleeping baby picture:

He’s here!

Born on Monday, August 20th…introducing Jonathan David Lamy, a.k.a. “Jack”. ) 6 pounds 13 oz, 19.5 inches long, and doing great! We just got home and are getting settled…here are some pictures, and I’ll post more updates in a day or two.