stupid crib

We are having no success whatsoever getting Milo to sleep in his crib at night. He can be completely passed out, snoring, drooling, practically comatose, but the instant his head touches that mattress he is wide awake, looking around and eventually crying like we were trying to kill him. Or at least torture him in some new and horrible way. We've tried sitting next to him and patting his belly to try to soothe him, picking him up and setting him back down once he's relaxed a bit, putting his mattress at an incline...no luck. For some reason sleeping flat is only acceptable if it is in our bed.

Oh well, as my friend Emilie said to me via Facebook - don't worry, he won't still be sleeping with you when he's 20. So at least there's that.

It's looking like I'm going to have to stop wearing dangly earrings for a while - pretty much everything that his hands come into contact with immediately get swallowed up into a Vulcan death grip, which wouldn't be too bad except as soon as he gets something in his tiny little fist he immediately tries to put it in his mouth. And although my earrings are long, they aren't THAT long. Ouch.

But in better news, I've put new pictures on the website! Hooray!

high chair and new shoes

The other night we put Milo in his high chair for the first time as a test drive to see how he liked it. Turns out he loves the thing - he was laughing and bopping around like crazy. I got some great video of it but here's a pic for now -



And for those of you who have been closely following the great shoe debate of 2009, we decided to keep the Vans. The Chucks were just a little too burly for a kid who isn't walking yet - they were just like regular Chuck Taylors but smaller, rather than the soft crib shoes we got from Vans.

playtime

a mishmash of video clips of milo in the jumperoo and his playpen.




Milo and I had a nice trip to Idaho Falls today - he fell asleep less than a block from the house and slept all the way there and even through me browsing at Old Navy. After I fed him we had a great time cruising the mall and Target - he helped me pick out a scarf. On the way home we ran into some insane rainstorms that turned into sleety snowy garbage about ten minutes after we got home - glad we missed out on that.

Also, Milo is five months old today! I can't even believe it. I remember being in the hospital way too clearly for it to have been five months ago already.

baby einstein, part 2

just found the best use for my new dual monitor setup - baby einstein on one monitor, photoshop on the other. it's brilliant!!!

baby einstein

We got the Baby Bach video for Milo the other day and he loves it. Loves it! Who knew?

Here's his first watching -





totally entranced. he could hardly even be distracted by his bottle.

jumperoo video

he's mostly just sucking on his hands and looking cute, but really, what more could you ask for?

easter treats

they were addressed to Milo, but he's not really on the solid food yet so I suppose Nate and I will just have to take care of the candy. It's a hard life, really.

QUAX.