Copy Cat

Monday I started a campaign to ban all leopards from sleeping on our bed.  Maggie tends not to obey the "stay on the brown blanket" rule, and likes to go in and out several times during the night through the door leading outside in our room.  Jake always stays on the brown blanket and is quite content to sleep 12 hrs uninterrupted.  So, after 48 hrs of the "new rule" we had a very dejected Jake and a very unaffected Maggie (it's unaffected not uneffected.  I looked it up).  Above is a very happy Jake after the abolition of the "guest bed only" rule.

I know some of you probably are thinking that a leopard shouldn't nap so close to a baby.  I assure you it is never unsupervised, and honestly, we are confident that we could trust Jake to babysit before a lot of people and certainly before any other leopard.  If J cries, Jake calmly looks over as if to say, "yes, I know, they don't feed me enough either", and rolls over.  Pictured below is Jake's reassuring paw as proof.

"Hello my baby, hello my honey..."

As in the WB singing frog? Yeah, I figured only my sister will get that one right off.   Thought it was more suitable than a "I'm looking at the baby in the mirror" reference.

M and I now spend energies not devoted to eating or sleeping, but to rearranging the above mirror and singing frog to J's liking.   Also, all that tummy time has paid off, J is rolling over!  He goes tummy to back.  First time he did it I assumed he must have been on some sort of incline, but 5 times (and several witnesses) later- we count it.

8 weeks on Wednesday!

I also hope to blog about something else soon.  I hope to have new material shortly with Easter, a couple of runs we are doing, and my new "herb garden" aspirations.  That being said, I'm a little bias towards the J posts...

April Fail

A few nights ago J started sleeping in his crib in the nursery.  The above is my attempt at disassembling the pack n' play in our room.  M had it down to a small bag complete with handle in a matter of minutes.  Although even he couldn't fit the mobile.  So, ha.

In the Spring of Things

Today J is 6 weeks!  M and I are getting much more efficient with all the details and are settled into our new, although ever changing, rhythm.  J has been such a trooper as we've been able to get him out more and more in the beautiful spring weather.

Chances are you've already seen this photo via e-mail, facebook, or that giant poster we had made... but, I couldn't help showing it off one more time to celebrate 6 weeks of our little boy.

Happy St. Patty's!

Dinner Is On Me

Saturday we heard the familiar, yet more urgent, sound of Jake at the door asking to come in.  Looking out the window we discovered the reason for the excited, muffled meow.  Jake very proudly held in his mouth what we can only assume was a dinner offering.  Encouraging words and two treats were tossed out to him, passage inside was not permitted.

A Month Later...

Yesterday we celebrated J's 1 month birthday.  A date that also signifies the beginning of markedly less sleep, social interactions, and of course blog entries.  Although the way we see it, it's been a month of many glorious hours spent in PJs, enjoying lots of delicious food from friends and family, and taking in every second with this guy...







Happy 1 month, J! It's been our best one yet.