Thumb Sucker?

Hey Love ~

I've been saving up a bunch of pictures since I haven't had much time to blog or much to blog about... so here it goes, pics from the last weekish...

This is Marek's new favorite toy, he is a very exciting giraffe named Jeff.  Each of his feet do different things, one squeaks, one is a bell, etc.  I hear he is very fun to chew on.  If you look closely you can tell he has little ribbons around his feet like clydesdale hooves, every once in a while M will get a ribbon between his gums and hold on for a long time while he looks at it.  I'll try and take a pic, its cute.

Marek's new Favorite toy.  

I figured its been a while since you saw your first born sons.  They miss you like crazy.  Between you being gone and the yard being torn up they think they've died and gone to hell.  I'm thinking we'll have to head back out to the lake soon, they seemed to really appreciate their week of lake time and behaved really well, stayed close, etc.

Liam said Panda today.  More like PA-DA, but cute.

Our little mouth breather misses you.

Marek's daily outfits now consist of really tight 3-6 month clothes and a bib at all times.  He's a drool machine.  When he's on his back he seems to flip the bib in his face a lot though and really doesn't like it but can't seem to figure out how to flip it back.  Maybe I'll start taking the bib off for activity gym time?

Bib in the face

He's starting to get really fixated on things.  Out of the blue something will catch his eye and he's mesmerized.  He loved the excer-saucer at the lake so I set up the one at home for him to use too.  Our down stairs is even more littered with baby stuff than before now that it's out and the bumbo is always being used.  I'm thinking about putting away the swing, he doesn't really like it (which is weird because most parents say that its the most important thing they own...)

Totally fixated on pieces of round plastic...

We met Vanessa, Van and Courtney and her daughter (friends of Sveas) at the goldenview park today with Mags and Liam.  It was chilly so we dressed warm.  I think this pic adequately represents the head growth that has happened since you left...

Laying on the garage floor so mom can put on her shoes.

Wearing a precious new Daddy loves me giraffe suit that will fit for 2 more days...

I'm petrified we're going to have a thumb sucker.  Since he's teething his hands are always in his mouth now.  As of now he seems to only chew on them but someday I'm sure he'll figure out they're the next best thing to Dad's pinky and we'll be done for.  Tonight I gave him a bath and he started suck/chewing on his thumb after, it provided a good photo op to illustrate my point, scary future thumb sucker.

Tomorrow is a busy day.  Davie needs a ride to the airport so we're headed out first thing in the morning to G-wood, then lunch with Leah C and her best buddy who is in town, then getting my nails done with Mom and having Blake and Kayla for dinner.  So wish us luck that we're still alive by the end of all that.

PS remind me to tell you the crazy story of how Zach and Davie almost died packrafting 20 mile...