Boy

Boy is tough.  As seen from a previous post, he gets scrapes, gouges, gashes, bruises, dents of all kinds from the natural process of being a boy, I suppose.  But, he rarely cries about them; and if he does, it doesn't last long.

The other day, Boy got his regular immunization shots.  The nurse got all ready with the bandaid half stuck to the exam table, loosened the cap on the syringe, had me hold his arms while she pinned his legs with her torso and said "here we go".  When the needle went into his little thigh, Boy did nothing.  He looked down at his leg for a second.  But, no shriek, no scream, no wince of any kind.  ? What ?  Okay, it was only one injection- but it packed three different immunization fluids in it.  After the shot was over, all he wanted to do was play with the band-aid on his leg.  The nurse was as stunned as I was.  "That's never happened to me before" she said.  "He didn't even flinch."

Fast Forward

Later that day, I was strapping Boy into his car seat when I accidentally took my phone out of my pocket within his view to look at the time. He immediately began whining and reaching out to grab it. Whenever he wants the phone he says "Hi...hi...hi." When I quickly put it back in my pocket, closed the door and got into the driver's seat- he began to wail! Big huge tears streaming down his face. He screamed the entire drive home from the store (20 minutes), intermittently yelling "Hiiiiii..aaaaah..hiiiii!"

Shot in the leg? No biggie. Cell phone denial? Complete devastation.

Boy

Brothee loves being outside, and he doesn't mind if his bare feet and legs get all scraped up by the ground, rocks, bushes, trees, etc.  He really liked this tree on campus the other day.

Haircut for The Broth

I was super nervous about cutting The Broth's hair myself, but it was getting way out of hand:

BEFORE

BEFORE

AFTER

I think I did a pretty darn good job cutting my one year old's hair with electric clippers, if I do say so. My secret was putting him in his high chair with a movie in front of him on my laptop and letting Elly feed him smarties one by one. Still, it was NOT easy.

SUPER CUTE AFTER

"Typical BOY face" AFTER

I think it makes him look so much older...and also so much more adorable...if that is possible.

Elly Quotes- Boy Edition

Elly's Friend: Does your brother love pirates?
Elly: Yeah.  He loves everything.

Boy

The weather was beautiful yesterday, so we were outside playing.  Elly was riding her trike, but then she abandoned it to go play with neighborhood friends.  Brothee jumped right on.

Yeah, he's in just his diaper.  And yeah, he's on a pink trike.  He doesn't seem to care.  He's just excited to be riding.  He's not a baby anymore.  He's totally a little boy.

Yes, we do have two children...

Boy was asleep when I did Elly's photo shoot, but Brandon was just saying the other day how few pictures I take of him compared to the millions we have of Elly, so I tried to make him sit still for two seconds. This is the result (at the end, he got really mad when I wouldn't let him have the camera):

Miles Banana

Here's a little clip of Miles trying to say "banana".  Yes, he's upset until we give him the food.  That's pretty much every moment of his life so far.

Miles is 7 Months Old!

 
 
 
 

We love this shirt that Adobe sent us in the mail as a gift for Miles' birth (I wish I had one just like it!). Miles is still the best! We all just love him so much. He's so easy going. He lets other people hold him and gives strangers smiles. He sleeps through the night (most of the time). He is the smiley-est person on the planet. He loves technology; if there is a screen (TV, iPod, phone, computer) anywhere in the room, he heads directly for it. He has the best belly laugh ever. He likes food. Mashed potatoes is a favorite as well as frozen peas, "puffs", and blueberry muffin (thanks, Daddy!). He likes to get in the shower and scoot around on his tummy, but ends up playing with the drain the entire time, trying to stick his fingers in it. The water pours down on him. He comes out with his eyes all red; but, he doesn't care. His favorite thing now is rolling over during a diaper change. This is not something I love about Miles. But, he's usually laughing all the while so I can't really be mad.

LOVE HIM!

Boy is 6 months old!

And this is what his cute little face looks like most of the time:



He is so super smiley! We sure gave him the right name and Elly often calls him "sMiles"


Here he his showing off his new trick: He is ALMOST completely crawling.


...and back to smiling.


Miles is the best thing ever. We are so happy that he came into our family. He makes all of us laugh and we love playing with him everyday. He and Elly have a special thing going. When one of them is sleeping (or at school), the other one looks all over and waits. They crack each other up and love to cuddle together and watch "a show" together. Elly is super helpful when it comes to Miles. She always "babysits" him while I take a shower. She gets his toys and loves to feed him baby food. She checks on him when he's sleeping (on the monitor or in person). She reads him books and lets him lie right next to her. She is the best big sister and he LOVES her. Elly can make Miles smile or laugh when no one else can.

Miles loves to give kisses. He leans in close to your mouth and just waits there with it open for you to give him a kiss. It's the sweetest thing. Warning: Miles' kisses are extremely wet...but worth it.

Miles likes to "wrestle" with his dad. That usually means that Brandon rolls around with Miles in his arms and Miles- correction: both of them just laugh and laugh. They also like to watch Nightly News together, play the piano, look at screens (iPod screen, computer screen, cell phone screen, TV screen, etc.) and eat mashed potatoes.

Miles and I also have a little thing going. We mostly hang out late at night or early in the morning and mostly one of us is half asleep and wants to be completely asleep. But, we also love to cuddle during waking hours and one of us is VERY squirmy and doesn't like to cuddle as long as the other. But, we make it work and I LOVE LOVE LOVE this boy!

Elly Quotes

Talking to Boy:

Elly: You're such a little chicken munk.

Me: You mean Chipmunk?

Elly: Yeah.