Vi Crawls -- a Vi-Deo

This doesn't do justice to how fast she can go now...

Weekend in Pictures 2

(enjoy these pictures -- Smartie, Munch and I will be going up north for the rest of the week and will not have email access)

This weekend in pictures 1

Happy Birthday, Great Grandma!

Munchie wanted to send out a special birthday wish to her great grandma, who turns 87 today.


Unfortunately, I let her hold the sign...


Happy Birthday, Great Grandma!


(We did get one good picture, but we sent that special picture straight to Grandma.)

A whole new world

The Munch finally got crawling down yesterday. Which meant she ended up in prison.


Today, I turned the gate around to keep her from the entertainment center, which fascinates her, and let her go nuts.

The biggest joy of the crawl is that now she can chase the cat. Really, Really slowly. This hunt took almost 7 minutes...

Dumb Moves #1

Leaving the oatmeal bowl on the highchair tray to answer a quick email...

Hectic

The past few days have been a hectic whirl, so sorry for the lack of updates. Friday night I went out with the girlfriends for a bit, and Saturday I spent the entire day at the Minneapolis City Convention. Smartie and his dad did the posts of our new deck while I was gone. And yesterday we spent grocery shopping, baby clothes shopping (Munch outgrew most of her pants again), and book shopping (with a birthday brunch squeezed in). Smartie and I got some books to read at the cabin, and Munch got 3 books, Monster at the end of the Book, Gingerbread Man, and Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, and alphabet book we used to have from the library. We read all three last night, although Smartie seemed a little disturbed by the fact that the Gingerbread man got eaten.

But it all must have been too much excitement, as Munch woke up at 4:45 this morning, and did not want to go back to sleep. It took a bottle, a change, and 30 minutes of cuddling before she would pass out and I could go back to sleep. Right about the same time as the cat started howling in the next room.

So we'll see if that was make up for over sleeping yesterday, or if she's under rested today, which will mean lots of crankies. Too soon to tell right now, as it's all smiles and exercises so far...

Food woes...

This is what happens if I take a call during breakfast.


Luckily she woke back up when she heard the camera...


And in the "better idea in theory than in practice" category -- do not feed a baby avocado in her bouncer...

Bookworm

yummy

Green beans...

Tuesday Vi-deo --- Vi Plays

So close to crawling...

5 months

Munchie turned 5 months old today. I had a big post planned, but decided I'd rather spend the time with her than write it.

Have some pics from yesterday instead.

please dial a number...

Smartie and I are building a deck, and this weekend we plan to put down the footing. Like all responsible homeowners, we need to call and have our power/gas lines marked before we dig, so this morning I dialed 811, like the commercial on tv tells us to...

...but it took me three times before I got something other than a busy signal. However, once you get through, you find out that 811 is only for Wisconsin. If you are calling from any other state, you are asked to hang up and dial 1-800-258-0808...

...which, once you call, you then enter the state you are calling from. In Minnesota, you then are told to hang up and call 1-800-252-1166...

...which, when you dial, you are told that because you are local, you are not allowed to use the toll free number, and should hang up and dial 651-454-0002...

...which I did, and the line was busy.

Thank you, moms

To all the moms out there...

Thank you for cleaning up our messes...


Happy Mother's Day!

A Correction

Previously, Powerliberal ran a post stating that Munchie was attempting to pull herself up on her bouncer.

Upon further inspection, it appears the baby was simply trying to get as close as possible in order to eat said bouncer.


Powerliberal regrets its error.

Thank you, Ashwin Madia

I want to say thank you to Ashwin Madia, future third congressional district congressman, for stopping by drinking liberally tonight. It looks like if Munchie would vote for you, if she could.


However, she's not in your district...

Morning Hunt -- A Photojournal

It's time to go hunting!


No fair, I can't climb!

Fine, I'll go for the easy prey.

I'm in trouble once she can walk...

Caught in the act

Ok, seriously, this is Munchie trying to pull herself up. Dude, you can't even sit up yet -- you just started scoot-crawling around the room two days ago. Stop it, already!

No time today

Mommy is busy hunting down a cyber-jerk. Hope he doesn't end up in prison like me...it gets kind of dull in here...

I'm only happy when it glows...(A Vi-Deo)

I'm starting to think the baby has a problem, but I don't know where to find a rehab for babies addicted to the worm...

Weekend update

All in all fairly good, although I'm still sick. I've had a sore throat for a week, and it left and now I have a cough. Friday I learned how hard it is to be sick when you have a baby -- normally I would just tell my office I need the afternoon off and sleep it off wrapped in blankets on the couch. But Munchie, sensing my weakness, decided to go full throttle cranky mode. Once daddy made it back home, she was angel girl again.

Saturday was my couch day, instead. By Sunday I was feeling good enough to go shopping -- over $200 dollars at Target, all for the baby. Most of it was formula, a good chunk of the rest was diapers, and then new sleepers and onesies since she outgrew the old, as well as a couple of hats, since her daddy's don't fit her.



Yesterday, we started her on oatmeal, which as you can tell from the post below she loves.

Sunday was a big day for me in the newspaper, where I was somewhat mentioned in two different sections. One was kudos for Minnesota Monitor. The other was Chris Farrell calling me a doofus in the business section.

So all in all, I'd call this weekend a wash.

Now I eat oatmeal -- a photojournal

This is GOOD!

REALLY GOOD!

I think there's a little bit left...

No, I do NOT have a problem...