I've been meaning to write more on the blog, but much of my time in front of a computer is at work. Without Shane around there isn't any downtime at all anymore at work...anyway enough of the excuses.

People often ask who Peanut looks like, so I was wondering where does he get his traits from. Here's my thoughts so far.

Blue eyes - Kim has blue eyes as well as my dad. Interestingly enough Wikipedia says my eyes are green not hazel.
Nose - He lucked out here and has Kim's nose.
Feet - I think he's gonna be tall and have big feet like me.
Skinny - So far he's pretty skinny, I'm giving this one to the mailman. On second thought, the postal carrier is a woman.
Hair - it is brown like both of us.
Big goofy smile with his tongue out - that's all me baby.

He started rolling over both ways now. It was that he'd roll one way and then would be done, pretty much exhausted from the effort. But now it is both ways. He can hold his head up and is fairly stable, but not completely. With the rolling around he can travel a good foot or two while on the ground. I guess this means the gates are going up soon. He's grasping at things

He's starting to be a little more vocal. When we try to get him to speak, he is starting to catch on to the idea and make noises that are starting to have the right inkling of the idea. Mostly it is "aahh" "gaah" "oooh" and the like.

So after the first 100 days in office...

Peanut is still working on rolling over. He gets up on his side and doesn't make it all the way over onto his belly. He has an arm out in front of him, and deadlifting his head over his body is a little much for him still.
He's a little more talkative. I've discoverer that just waiting for him to speak is the way to do it. If you talk to him he politely waits for you to finish speaking before he speaks.
He is able to hold his head up for longer periods of time. Still not steady, but it has gone from completely floppy if you aren't careful to a slight drunken wobble.
Last Friday he was 10 pounds 5 ounces, gaining the good portion of a pound in a week. Still just right at the line in terms of weight for his age.

I recorded Christopher trying roll over onto his belly from his back. It was a little surprising to see him try to roll onto his tummy since the first thing he does when he is on his belly is to roll onto his back. I really thought he might do it, and he put in a pretty good try. The video clears up after a couple of seconds.

The video clears up after a second.

Today is our 14th anniversary! Peanut is 12 weeks old today.




I know I wasn't making them public before, but I have made some of them public now. My channel on YouTube has a bunch more videos.