Previous Posts |
Sunday, February 24, 2008eleven weeksi know! i missed last week. every day i thought: "i really need to write milo's entry today!" and then we'd get wrapped up in our daily routine and the next thing i knew, it was the weekend again. milo is actually the easiest part of our lives right now. in addition to parenting a newborn, matt and i are both working; i'm writing a second cookbook; and on top of all that, we're searching for our first house. our whole family is go go go every minute of the day—which is great! i vastly prefer busy to bored. it helps, of course, that milo is such a carefree baby. if he were a high needs child, there is no way that his dad and i could accomplish half of what we do. he is just so happy and laidback, and we can take him (almost) anywhere that we would want to go. we're smart enough to know that our parenting has nothing to do with it: this is his personality, and it's radiant, and we're just the lucky jerks that get to spend time with him. onto the pictures, since i know that's why you're really here. don't pretend otherwise. here is our blue-eyed babe repping for the home team:  milo has a mobile that hangs above his changing table, and he absolutely adores it. it's just six suessian fish, dangling. his aunt sara bought it for him from ikea. they don't spin or play music; they just hang there, but that's enough for milo. he is totally enthralled by them. here is a video that i took a few weeks ago of milo and his fish (the password, as always, is "milo."): fish friends from joannalovesyou on Vimeo. milo loves his fish friends so much that i had to take a picture from his perspective to see what was so great about them:  they are pretty special! i like the orange one the best. but if i had to pin down one thing that was milo's true love, i'd have to say it was his fist. like most newborns, milo is orally fixated. he sucked so much on his forearm that he started to give himself hickies:  then, sometime last week, milo discovered his fist. forearm, forget about it! you are no match for milo's passion for his fist. he goes at this thing like it is the greatest possible thing that he could have in his mouth. he is templeton the rat and his fist is the fair smorgasbord.  finally, here is a photo of milo sitting in his baby chair for the first time:  he wasn't supposed to be ready for it until 3 months, but he has such great head and neck control that we thought he might try it a bit earlier, and sure enough, he loves it. milo is also "talking" more than ever. every day, he cracks us up with his little monologues. his only word is "unga," but he's giving javiar bardem a run for his money with how many different ways he can say that word. more heartbreaking photos and videos next week.
posted by joanna @ 6:56 PM
0 Comments: Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
|
