By Popular Demand...

And now, some photos for your sheer enjoyment. Oohs and Aahs are welcome (hehe).

Shirley Creations

Ron's mom, Shirley, has a wonderful time creating knitted FASHIONS for Samson. The first one here i like to call "Little Bunny Butthead" - LOVINGLY of course - because the top looks like - well - a bunny butt! It's cute. I think he looks a little bit like a girl in this pom pom jacket, but its still fun. I also like the tan duo, and i call Sam "The Thug" with this one. Just look at the menacing face he's making, as if to say "hand over the candy lady, and no one gets hurt!" Hehehe....

Impossipuzzle

Ron picked up this puzzle at a local Salvation Army recently. I get a kick out of him doing this, because for years, i figured that picking up a puzzle at the Sal Val would only prove missing that LAST FINAL PIECE just as i was finishing it. This has never actually happened to me, but - ya know. This was not the case with this puzzle, and we finished it successfully! At first, i had nothing to do with helping him, as it seemed IMPOSSIBLE to do. Sure enough, over time, i found my eyes lingering on it as i walked by, then sitting down to place ONE PIECE, then sitting down for over an hour to place as many as i could. Right now, there is an even IMPOSSIBLER puzzle in the same spot on our kitchen table. Its a photo mosaic. Its an image of the whole Simpson family comprised of a TON of tiny images from Simpsons' shows. Well - don't worry - i'll take a picture of that one completed and post it when ***RON*** finishes it. I have no desire (at least yet) to help him with that one. I'm blind enough as it is.

Gack

I had my first official *GAG* at a dirty diaper today. The dang thing was BLUE and soaked thru all his clothes. Both Ron and Samson thought this was VERY FUNNY! Yeah - well - Guess who's going to change the nasty ones from now on??....

i made a kick ass sign for over the salad bar at Wegmans today. It's simple upon first glance, but elegant and precise with longer study. HA! Below is a couple snaps from "The Frog Pond" that i did for the front door bakery case. They were selling cupcake frogs (read: would you like a little cupcake with your icing?) and i decided to do it up. The frog is from memory - he was the theme of one of my senior art projects in college. This was a fun display to work on and got a lot of compliments and sales! HEY! - i should get a raise!

Samson's Four Months Old!

Sam will be four months old on Thursday. He just had his 4 mo. check up at the docs yesterday. To my dismay and concern, he is underweight. He should be gaining 1 oz. a day and he's only gained 6 ozs. in 2 months. Doc said not to worry, we'll get him back on track starting immediately. She said, "lemme guess... Sam's a happy, easy going, laid back baby." I exclaimed "YES! Why?" She explained that chill babies don't 'complain' as much as others, and therefore when we feed him 4 oz. at a sitting, its just enough to take the hunger edge off, but he COULD eat more - he just won't let us know. He'll go back to cooing and laughing or taking a mild nap. I felt very bad at first, finding out his weight, but today, i feel better knowing that i'm being the best mom i can be. Sam's just like his daddy this way - Mr. "It's all good!"

The Giggler

Now i don't want to go out on a limb here, but I could SWEAR, the other night, i made Sam laugh ON PURPOSE at something i was doing. I'm sure i did. I had him spread out in my hands, lengthwise (hands holding his head and feet) and was jiggling my head in his tummy while making a ton of ridiculous noises and HE WAS LAUGHING!!!! I was so thrilled that he was responding to something i was doing to make him laugh that i kept doing it just to hear his wonderful little happy voice.

Snow Anyone?

Over the holidays, we got dumped with a decent amount of snow. Nothing TOO crazy, but just enough to make a good-sized snowman. Which my father and Ron did together. Not just ONE, but two, and BIG ONES. Taller than them (my dad is 6'2"). It was really good packin' snow, and the two of them were out there for a couple hours, making a "Mr." and a "Mrs." Snowman. I think they really had a good time. We haven't had a snowfall like that since - in fact, it's been a VERY MILD winter here in Western NY, but i guess i shouldn't complain. Just last night, we had white out conditions with the snow blowing horizontally - but that only lasted 20 min, then it was back to blue sky. It's weird like that around here.

ThE PeTs !!!

Perhaps some of you have been wondering how the pets are taking to Samson. Well, the short answer is "very well." By the photos I've included, maybe you can see just how much Mr. Beegsley loves Sam - he gives him kisses every chance he can sneek them. This just drives Ron's mom Shirley CRAZY, but it's worth the laugh. Might as well expose him at an early age to all the ALLERGENS floating around our house. The "upstairs cats" (that's what we call them because that is where they stay having "downstairs dogs") don't think too much of Sam. They sniff him, and Bebe rubs up against Sam's swinging arm for petting, but other than that, I don't think the cats even care there's a baby around. I was afraid of them sleeping (or worse, peeing) in his crib, but I don't think Bebe can jump that high, and Zap's shown little interest. Four pets and a baby - - now that will keep anyone on their toes!

Baby Milestones

A gazillion babies have done what i'm about to type, a gazillion times, but this is MY baby doing it for the FIRST time:

Sam laid on his tummy and lifted his head more than 45 degrees for more than 30 seconds.

YOU GO SAM! You're a wild man!!!

Sam's Growing!

(See "It's a BOY!" post below for Samson's first photos)

Samson just turned 2 months old a couple days ago! My goodness, dare i say time is already flying? I suppose not. He's getting to the fun stage now: lots of smiling and cooing, especially in the mornings. He doesn't so much like 'tummy time.' Maybe that's because its WORK to lift that gigantic head! :-)