Happy End of March!

Wally post for the week!  Hmm, now what happened....  The early part of the week was beautiful - the sun was out during the day, it was raining at night and almost all snow had melted.... until Wednesday, when we got another 3 inches of snow and biting wind.  I hate March in Minnesota.  Then I love it.   Then I hate it.

Summer, here we come!

Wally has had some really fun play dates over the past few weekends.  Two Saturdays back we had Ryan and Julie over for dinner with thier two little girls Sophia (3 yrs) and Claire (9 mo) for a really fun dinner and play date.  Ryan and Brian use to work together at DR, and at Brown printing before that, so it's been great to stay in touch with them over the years.  Julie is an awesome mom (with tons of great insight), and is speaking both Spanish and Enlish with the girls.   This past Saturday Raia and Jeff and Veronica (5 mo) were over for dinner in thier travels home to MN from Santa Barbara.  Raia is my "BFF" from high school, and Jeff is my photography mentor.  He takes the most gorgeous photos (check out his blog: http://peas-in-a-blog.blogspot.com/  )  So then I look at his blog and get ideas for shots to take with Wally.  I totally stole his idea of getting the baby swing with all the little mobile trinkets in the foreground.  I love seeing the older kids and all the fun things we have to look forward to!  Even just a matter of 2 months, which Vera has on Wally, is such a huge difference.  For example,  I'm overjoyed at a smile on que, but grabbing and rolling and crawling...woa!

Wally and Veronica

Brian and I had our second "date night" on Friday evening.  We went to Orchestra Hall and saw Ravel's "La Valse" and pieces of the suite from his "Daphnis and Chloe" ballet.  This was part of thier series "Inside the Classics" where they talk about the music, what to listen for, and what made the composer's style unique.  I thought it was awesome, and reinforced my love for Ravel's music!  Wally spent some QT with Grandparent's John that evening.  On Saturday I had my longest stretch of time away from Wally - 7:30am to 2:30pm.  I subbed teaching music classes all morning for my good friend Emily.  Although I was a little nervous about the whole thing and stressing that I hadn't pumped enough, I had a great time, and I think so did Brian and Wally without me:)

Who loves chubby breastfed babies, raise your hands

I have to also mention a few new things Wally has been starting to do, just so I can read this in 10 years and smile.  First is the "excited boob laugh" when he sees the boobs and knows he's about to nurse.  It's hillarious, and something I'm debating getting a video of.   Now that his little GI system is getting more developed, he has a ton of gas.  He farts all the time, and what's worse is that it sounds just like Brian's farts.  And the poop.... or should I call them the great poop explosions.  He saves it up for 2-4 days, and then all at once we get unloaded on.  Brian has been losing in this game for about 2 weeks now.  Except today.  Today it was me.  I could feel a little oozing through his pants, and then as I was getting up from the couch he puked all over his front side.  It was like a perfect storm of body liquids, quite impressive.

I just thought I'd post some really sweet pics I've taken recently.  Brian and Wally cuddling on the couch after a long week.  And my first (of many) naked photos.  One day I'll get a better shot of the wrinkled butt up here on the blog.

Milestones:  First full laugh last Thursday, wearing 6-9 month size clothing, hair is getting lighter brown, eyes are turning lighter blue with a tinge of turquoise in the sun, bedtime at 8:00pm and sleeps until 2-3pm (sometimes even 4), variety of laughs and coos, starting to notice his mobile and toys.