his father's son.

Little Mr. Narcolepsy asleep in his bouncer.

crab walk.

Oh you strange little boy.

We know you have the leg strength,

but you insist on "crawling"

by dragging your little legs tucked under you,

like a hermit crab dragging your shell.

superbowl mayhem!

obviously.

oh my word.

I don't really know why I am recording this day, since I want to forget it for all time. I think the above picture really captures the mood of:

up at 5 am to water pouring into our dining room through the leaky window

being stuck in the house for three days straight courtesy of SNOWMAGGEDDON

you secretly getting new teeth (maybe)

and refusing to take the baby tylenol

the immense reappearance of the spinach baby food, and the scrambled eggs.

Fingers crossed that February gets better.

big boy!

holy smokes!

STANDING UP (on his own)

in his pack & play

1/29/2011

10 months!

Dear Fancy Fox,

Ten months! You are the cleverest, sweetest, cutest, smartest little creature I have ever seen/met/had a hand in creating. You are such a big boy and you are doing and figuring out new things every single day.

You are shy to strangers (and even to non-strangers we haven't seen in awhile) and only want to say "dada," which is maddening! You recognize patterns (like when the door opens, someone will come in the house) and people (usually greeted by a loud shriek of "DADA!"). You crawl everywhere, or rather, drag yourself everywhere (you still haven't figured out how to put it all together quite yet). You love to clap, and will dance to yourself whenever you hear music. You want to do everything by yourself, and will remove my hands if they are in the way. You are pulling up on everything, and figure out every hiding spot for the remote within seconds. I swear, you are going to be a super-genius.

You are huge--still in size 4 diapers, but wearing mostly 12-18 month clothes! Daddy may get his basketball player yet. Your hair is getting so thick and Daddy and I laugh at the old pictures of your mullet and your nearly-bald baby head. I think it is going to be curly!

You are doing better with eating, now that you have discovered puffs, which you eat by the greedy handful, and HappyBaby baby food, which you can drink like a juicebox. You still prefer milk from mama, and I have a feeling you are going to be unhappy with me when we make the switch over in the next few months.

We love you so much, and it is so cool watching you experience things for the first time, and figure things out for yourself. You are turning into such a big boy and we pray that you will grow into a great man.

We love you, Olly.

Love, Mama & Daddy.