spring has brought us such a nice surprise

 

actually, spring has brought us a bunch of nice surprises:

 

 

this handsome devil discovered that he looooves sucking on his

hands.  started with his thumb, but now it's just any and every finger

that he can possibly get into his mouth.  he'll still take the binky, but

he doesn't have to have it.  some are telling us to nip the thumb-sucking

in the bud, but i think that it's adorable, and that they can just mind

their own p's and q's, thank you very much.

 

 

 

i've only been working half-days on mondays and fridays, so one

friday we went down to visit booboo.  i love that they love each other.

 

 

the sun has finally broken through the inversion that's been suffocating

us all winter to start melting the snow, and it's warmed up a bit, too, so

we've introduced marty boy to our love of walks.

 

 

we took a trip to the heart attack grill at daddy d's with the ericksons

after they went to the hafb museum with their boys, who are the coolest

kids we know.  they take after their parents.

 

 

there has been plenty of father-son bonding going on around here...

 

 

 

and i don't see that changing any time soon because marty lets richard

do pretty much whatever he wants, and he loves every minute of it.

 

 

 

i took the boy to chow's birthday dinner with these nuts

 

 

and then i saved him by taking him away from them.

 

 

a not-so-nice suprise that we were introduced to was baby sickness.

we hated the cold that he picked up (and brought home to us) from daycare.

we also hated the reasty accidents that seemed to accompany his illness.

 

 

especially the ones that happen right before heading to work.

getting myself dressed is now pretty much the very last thing that

happens before we walk out the door for work.  live and learn.

 

we got really serious about taking walks and finally invested in a

stroller.  the timing is perfect since richard has a couple more trips

to boston for work coming up and i won't be able to make it to the

gym unless i strap the boy to my back, and that is just not happening.

anyway, we were pretty excited about it.

 

 

and he obviously loved it, too.

 

 

 

welcome, spring!  welcome.