a birthday and a half

happy birthdays!

baby's yawn immortalized in weblog's banner

and who do you think that sleepy little baby is?

click here and look at the top left corner if you're so inclined to wager a guess.

a little something, at least!

i know. you need an update if you are ever going to keep checking this. but i haven't been able to upload pictures in a bit, so i guess i will be forced to put into practice my writing skills. well, quickly, because i could be whisked away at any moment by a hungry, tired little.

greg's birthday is coming up soon.... i got him a pizza stone which i made him open up a week early so he could enjoy making the members of his household who eat solid food some good dinners, two nights in a row now... maybe three, who knows, it's really very good pizza! his other present is under the tree, but he picked it out himself so, it's even less of a surprise than the one he's already opened.

what else? i fed william a tiny spoonful of applesauce tonight (so he may be eating pizza tomorrow), but of course worried about giving him multiple spices at one time (cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, allspice) because apparently even with spices you are supposed to implement one at a time... sheesh... it's like they don't want babies to have any fun at all!

it's hot out for fall.

poe is in the cd player.

william will have a boy cousin in february! and an uncle ben in march!

it's 8:47 p.m.

now nina simone is playing.

man, these are the updates you have when you have momnesia... i'm sure other things are happening in our lives, but i'm just not capable of recalling them! and now william is getting tired now, so i must go, despite this page-turner of a post!

pictures soon!

an update! beware... lots of cute pictures

well, as you all may have suspected, william is officially a happy-go-lucky five month old, as of 6 days ago.

and he has officially traveled in the car on a long voyage to...


....hang out with his mom at the university of illinois...

and meet his cousin stewart... just slightly his senior...

hi stewart!


and pet a horse for the first time while his great (a.k.a. wonderful) aunt holds him....
(this is cousin haley's horse 'answer')

and have lots of fun with his dad (as always)...

and visit with his great (a.k.a. ancient... oh i kid) uncle....

and hang out with his great (a.k.a. terrifically spectacular) grandpa...

and sit in a swing at the park in a baseball suit...

in other news...

he also takes baths...

and bounces like a mad man after we got him a johnny jump up...

sometimes he is even tired and snuggly in footy pajamas...

oh, and i could not resist getting him an old pair of blue converse all stars, because i had such a pair in high school. of course they are too big for him now, but he's not quite to the point yet where he can escape his mom dressing him up in clown shoes, snapping photos of it, and posting them on the internet. sorry will.