My parents have been bugging me about family portraits - which I can understand, it's been a long time since we had any, and we sure don't have any with Charlie in them, which is wrong on many, many levels. Enter Groupon, enter Picture People, and here we go:

( Pictures of Cuteness. Also me and Bill. )

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Last week, I ordered prettyvk's really awesome fandom blocks for Charlie (her Etsy store is here; the blocks themselves are here), and they arrived yesterday.  He promptly gave his approval by attempting to eat them.  I promptly took out the camera at which point he took the blocks out of his mouth because this child is already onto me about ( Read more... )

I should find another moniker ( Read more... )

Andrew had a bit of a fever yesterday afternoon - it was just peaking at 100 when I gave him some ibuprofen, and that brought it down to the 98s, which is at least tolerable if not normal for him. (He's usually in the 97s.) He's also been peeing like mad; he went through his entire drawer of shorts yesterday and I'm going to have to do laundry ( Read more... )

So Andrew's vocabulary has progressed far enough that he can have actual conversations. Sort of. It should be noted that he doesn't really conjugate his verbs correctly (we're working on that) and like most toddlers, he demands rather than requests. But it's usually pretty clear what he means. For instance, when he wants me to come sit beside ( Read more... )

So technically, Opening Day was yesterday, but Bill was home yesterday and thus had the ability to take off Andrew's shirt and replace it with something horrible, like the C.C. Sabathia shirt that I have not yet managed to burn in effigy.

I would also like to point out that I did not put Andrew into this shirt merely because earlgreytea68 is going to start ( Read more... )

Yes, yes, lax about posting, etc and so forth. Next week is spring break which is just prompting all sorts of excitement around here. I have become very used to having my mornings to myself. I like my Andrew-free mornings. Don't get me wrong, picking Andrew up at school is definitely a highlight of my day, but that's because it immediately ( Read more... )

Bill's father was in town last month, so we managed to work in a bit of travel. With Andrew, who as you might be able to discern, is less impressed with 5,000 year old rocks than he is the 5,000 year old dirt that surrounds them. Somewhere, there is a French tourist who has as part of her travel photographs some shots of Andrew, covered first in ( Read more... )

I have been terribly lax with the CBMs, I know, and now I've got a backlog. But because I'm also short on time and can't properly go through the backlog, I'm going to go with the most recent photo of Andrew and I will try to give you Andrew picspam next week ( Read more... )