It Could Be Considered Cute From a Distance...

Of course, that might depend on your definition of "distance".  In this circumstance, I'm thinking along the lines of you need binoculars to see it, distance.  So, for whoever is counting, this is twice in one week that I've had a craft "fail".  I think I had just a bit more hope for this one. My Sister-in-Law is having a baby in June. They're doing a nautical theme in the nursery, so I thought I would try to make one of those oh-so-cute "melted crayon" pictures that are all the rave these days.  You know, like this cute one:

So, I bought some crayons, because, really, how hard can this be? They're doing navy/gray/yellow as their colors, so those are the colors that I went with, and this is what I ended up with... 

 

Sadly, it's even beyond the point that it's so ugly that it's cute. Sorry sweet little nephew, I tried. One day, I hope we'll get to share a laugh looking at pictures of the terrible art I tried to make for you.  From now on, I'll leave all creative adventures to your other Aunt, who is 100x better.

Or should I wrap it up and give it to my Sister-in-Law at her shower anyway, and watch her pretend that she thinks it's cute in front of everyone so that I don't feel offended? Then, she'll feel obligated to hang it up in his room every time I come to visit :)  Or I could wait a couple years and give it to him and tell everyone that his big cousin made it for him.  This would sort of be cute coming from a little kid, right?

How Four Month Old Babies Are Like Cats

...or at least how mine is like my parent's cat, Duncan [although, I should say my mom's cat.  My dad would happily drive the cat and drop it off in near a fishing stream in Ohio without hesitation].

• They are both intrigued by anything you dangle in front of them (string, paper, ribbon, forks, knives, etc.).
• They both cry when they're hungry...
• ...then eat as though they haven't had a meal in a week, even though you just fed them three hours ago.
• They will both scratch you if you get too close to their face (no matter how many times a day you try to trim their razor sharp claws - and I'm pretty sure both experiences are like trying to wrestle an alligator. At least the baby doesn't bite... yet).
• They're constantly spitting up something - milk, fur, dead moths.
• They're both constantly judging you, but at least the baby will think you're funny once in a while. (Cats - think Miranda Priestly in the Devil Wears Prada as she silently judges people while peering over her glasses.)
• They're both excited to see you when you come home. Ha. Just kidding.  Cats could care less, unless you're bringing food or catnip, and our little only gets excited to see me, I'm sure my husband gets the same response from both beings.

How Four Month Old Babies Are NOT Like Cats:

• Babies want constant attention, whereas cats sometimes like to be in the same room, but please don't look at, talk to, or touch me, thank you.

I long for the day when our little one crawls under the couch and ignores me for 4+ hours.  When do they reach that developmental milestone?

Playing Catch Up

Here are a few pictures of our little one over the last four months, just to get things up to speed here!

Easter Pics

I love Pinterest. I can spend hours scrolling through all the great recipes and ideas for kids. The problem with Pinterest, though, is that it gives me a false sense of hope about some of my abilities - namely photography.  I see a picture and think, gee, that can't be too hard to recreate.  Easter is coming up, why not try my hand at a few pictures of our little one with some Easter eggs? My hope is for a fun, bright picture like this:

 

Instead, I end up with these:

Maybe I need to lower my expectations when it comes to photography, or maybe I just need to take a class and learn the proper way to take pictures.  At least he'll have some funny pictures to look back on some day, and he can also be thankful that I passed up on buying the cute fuzzy bunny ears at Target to embarrass him even more. Although, one more night of waking up every 3 hours and I may just have to go buy them as my revenge.

Welcome to my blog!  I'm only, what, 5 or 6 years behind the times?  I thought about starting a blog before I had the baby, as a way to keep out of town friends and family updated on our life with our little one, so I guess I'm technically only 4 months behind my schedule.

Wow, how life has changed in just a few months.  After a somewhat difficult pregnancy (think, head in toilet almost every day), we welcomed our little guy into the world on November 1st.

5 months pregnant

Welcome Seth!

To prove how excited we were and how much we loved him before he was even here, we decided to start searching for names while I was in labor in the hospital. I guess that's not totally true.  We had one other name that we liked, but never took the time to come up with other names. We're trying very hard to be loving and caring parents, but we also need to be ourselves, so needless to say, our little one gets mocked on an almost daily basis, and I think sarcasm will be his first language... hopefully we won't scar him for life.  I have a feeling that he's going to be just as goofy as we are. *proof below

* Eating the invisible floating hamburger. nom nom!

So, why is our little one being raised by sarcasm?  Well, my mom is sarcastic, I'm more sarcastic (which she appreciates now, not when I was a smart-mouthed teenager), so if that's the natural progression, our little one will one day be an even bigger smart-ass than I am, and who knows, maybe he'll end up being a famous comedian, or do something great with his skill other than annoy those around him. Here's hoping!