Whew, that was more difficult than I wanted it to be.

I've been trying to post this pics for a couple days now. The only problem with blogging at this hour is the likelihood that Blogger will be down with some errors or for maintenance.

We got back from our annual pilgrimage to the east coast on Monday. After recovering from travel and reading my e-mails (99% of which just required the delete key), I'll post a few pics. These were taken on one of the first days we were at Liz's parents' house. Andrew just needed to get outside for a little while after being cooped-up on 2 airplanes, a train, and a car.






I'm still amazed at how quickly they move.



(c) 2007 Scott Everett

His office-bed

We finally started painting Andrew's new bedroom (translation: I've been evicted from my office). It desperately needs to be painted. We enlisted the help of a professional painter to do the job; I'm not sure if he has any experience in painting walls, but he seems to be an expert on many different media, including paper, sandpaper, and bathtubs. (Oh yeah, he still calls it his "office-bed").






(c) 2007 Scott Everett

Liz is jealous

Today Andrew did something he hasn't done for quite sometime. I was on the couch and he was on the floor when we told him it was time to take a nap. Lately he has been resisting naptime, but today he wasn't feeling great and seemed to be ready. He grabbed Hoppy and his sheet and crawled onto the couch with me. Surprised, I asked him if he was going to take a nap with me. He just nodded his head and laid down. What else was I supposed to do?


(c) 2007 Scott Everett

Death by 3 year old

(c) 2007 Scott Everett

Blogger was down last night when I tried to post this.

Uh, can you tell he picked out his own clothes this morning?

All I wanted was one more shot with his eyes open; instead I got a bonus shot with his eyes open and a finger up his nose.

On a completely different note: Andrew and I were running on Monday (I was running, he was riding) and were about 2.5 miles into our 11 mile run and I either pulled a muscle or had a really bad muscle cramp. I could barely walk, my calf was hurting so badly. We were still about a mile from the car and I had to limp all the way there.

We got back to the car and I took my headphones off, put them in the car, and returned to the stroller. Andrew asked me if my knee hurt; it had been for several weeks, but the pain recently abated. I told him that it wasn't my knee, but my calf this time. He looked at me with a great deal of compassion and held up his hand. Inside was one golden raisin from the bag a dried fruit I had given him before we left. He said to me, "Here, daddy. This is all I have to make your leg feel all better." I almost broke down and cried right there, he was so cute and empathetic.

(c) 2007 Scott Everett

More Halloween costume pics

I tried to get better shots of him in his costume. Here he was all smiles:


Here he was playing with the trunk:


And here he was putting the tusks up his nose:

Eh, at least he wasn't eating his boogers.

(c) 2007 Scott Everett

Just playing and reading

Caught a few pics of him playing and reading this morning. He's so cute.






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Jamma - Jamma - Jamma - PJ

So I didn't get to take any new pictures of his Halloween costume. It was bath night, I'll get some more later.

He had to get new jammies the other day when the weather finally broke. We dropped from the mid-nineties and are now all the way down to the mid-eighties. It did actually get kind of cool for a few hours, so we had to buy some long-sleeve jammies. As soon as he put them on, he just started sprinting around the house. To this day he still gets excited when we put on his dinosaur jammies.





(c) 2007 Scott Everett

Happy Halloween!

I don't know why my photos have been out of focus recently. I'm going to try to get some more of his costume tomorrow night and hopefully they will be better.


(c) 2007 Scott Everett