Naked Time!

So we went to the front yard today for a photo shoot in the grass before it gets too cold (yay! fall is right around the corner!). Pete says the second one is his football stance...lol...the second he was just being a goofball making lots of faces.




Can I just say, "I'm smitten." In the third shot, you can dream up funny captions to go with it...

Mmmmm....dirt.....

So, Austin and I were playing in the dirt...that was some nice dirt.

Tell me he doesn't look completely pleased with the whole situation :)

Austin's calendar :)

Stand!

Austin is getting stronger by the day. it seems like there are little synapses and bridges connecting all the time. As you can see, his feet that started out fitting no socks we had have grown and are happily in the 2T-3T socks...at 5 months. Thank you Peterson, Fitzgerald, and Crow genes, and it's not like the Flynn genes are tiny :) And now those fantastic bases are helping him in his long sought-after (since he was 2 mo old) quest to stand on his own. When he remembers to hold on, he can hold himself up on drawers, ottomans, legs, picnic baskets, and the new Curiosity Cube Grandma Katie got for him (pics to come later). He stood rockin' out at this drawer here for a couple of minutes...good fun..lol.

My handsome boys...

There is something so special watching your husband and your son love each other. Maybe there is some basic human condition that there is a deep seeded feeling when the two people who mean so much to you and who your world revolves around are also so special to each other...it's like the circle completes itself in that moment.

Family comes to visit.

Uncle Nick and Nana Aegli and Grandma Katie came to visit recently and we had such a great time! Pete and Nick got to drive the RV to Indiana to have some work done on it then ride back up - Pete on the Bumble Bee, UN on his brand new BMW GS he picked up while here...

Aegli and Austin and I did a little shopping to prepare Austin for winter, and they played "Pop, goes the weasel" in the back seat with a toy Sandee got us for Xmas. For the last week since they left, every time I say "Pop, goes the weasel" Austin tilts his little head around looking confused, looks around like Nana Aegli is supposed to be there, realizes it's just me and smiles.

Grandma Katie came to see Austin and meet UN and Aegli. Everyone was there for a DELICIOUS birthday dinner for Jonny's 21st. We had farmer's market corn, some cut of beef that Pete ordered special and just disolved in your mouth. It was a completely wonderful time! How great that we have such a fantastic family! Roasted potatoes...food is such a great reason to gather. Oh, and we opened the final bottle of wine we'd saved from the Redwoods for the occasion.

Katie found lots of board books too! I was starting to get burned out on "Things that Go!" My girly one-sound-fits-all sound effects are put to shame by the boys :) Apparently "cha-cha-cha-cha-cha" as a helicopter sound effect is not convincing...lol...I used to have the same problem trying to imitate Tim the-tool-man Taylor from Home Improvement...somehow my sound effect never conjured up "tough and manly" as a visual.

So now we have board books with sparkles, dingly animals on top, holes to peek through, books that float in the bathtub, books with fur...lots of fun books! Yay! It was fun having everyone here too now that Austin is more interactive.

It's so neat to go from a place where your friends are your family to having a caring family that is close enough to see and comes to see you! Thank you for coming to visit UN, Aegli and Mom Katie! It means so much!

I'm going to try this blog thing...

Well, here is the maiden voyage of learning to blog...Here is Austin shortly before turning 5 months :) I was trying to capture the face shape similarity between Austin and Pete.