My baby can't sit still.

I decided to video for one minute and see how long Charles could be still.  The answer, zero seconds.  These days he'll just lay on a blanket, like this, and be entertained by absolutely nothing for up to 30 minutes.  Randomly smiling and laughing.  Its pretty funny.

Arthur loves babies.

My Place

This is where I live.

Mobile Madness

Charles has really been enjoying his care bear mobile recently.  He'll watch it for like 30 minutes straight.  Unfortunately its a wind up so we have to keep winding it up - we can tell its time cause he starts to cry.  I think he might think the bears are alive cause he talks a lot to them sometimes.

Christmas Picture

Can you guys tell me if you think any of the following pictures would be ok for a Christmas card picture?  Otherwise I'll just send a picture of Charles by himself.  

This is choice #1.  It shows too much of our apartment though probably.

This is choice #2 - more of a close up but Charles isn't looking at the camera.

Choice #3 - like number one but color.

We also took some pictures at Sears but they aren't good.  Its a lot of pressure choosing how to represent yourself to people.  And putting in no picture at all basically says you have low self esteem and/or care way too much what people think of your looks and can't find a picture you like of yourself.  I'm having trouble because I am exactly like what I just said, in that I don't want to look fat in pictures even though I am slightly fat these days.  Getting skinnier all the time, but still.  So I think the 'no eye contact' picture is a good compromise for me.

Funny blogs

Hilary asked me why I said people were too happy in the blogs because the blogs I've put links too aren't that bad.  That is true.  The blogs that are like that are generally of people I don't know. Here is an extreme example. www.micahandsarahkeith.blogspot.com   Its a friend of one of Kurt's sisters.  I thought it was a joke site at first.  Like this joke site.  

I don't spend THAT much time looking at blogs.  Really.  But its really tempting to look - especially since almost all the blogs are of people who haven't been married long and have just had their first child.  Thats how I got started - I wanted to hear their labor stories.  And they deliver.  I have a friend who knows someone who put pictures of her home birth on her blog - including a picture of the afterbirth (the stuff that comes out after the baby).  Sorry to gross you out.

Arthur, I would like to see a picture of where you live.  Just one.  You can request a picture from me and it can even be crazy.  For now here is an old picture of me from high school choir.

I know, you can hardly believe I wasn't always as cool as I am now.