Cats land on their feet...

Dogs don't

BBQ Sauce and Spam

It's good.

Holy HUGE SPIDER, Batman!!

I'm not afraid of spiders and, apparently, neither is Mitch.

Mitch: Oh wow, look what was on me.
Kadi: *thinks* a bug, a hair, a booger...

Nope. Ladies and Gentlemen, this is officially the biggest spider (excluding Rosy the Rose-Haired Tarantula) I've ever seen in any of my dwelling places.

I have no idea what species it is, but it's cool! Maybe a wolf spider.

Next to my Trac phone outside for perspective

I just thought this one was cool...that's Derek eating dinner in his high chair

Make Me Giggle

Derek likes to play in his pack N play and I also like him to play in there. Perfectly baby-proof. Lacey tries to figure out how to get at the goldfish crackers on the floor of the pack N play and Derek gets a kick out of watching her try (everything from trying to bite through the mesh to bouncing off it at full speed)... but that's another story. Mostly Derek plays with his mountain of toys, eats the goldfish crackers and occasionally watches TV. Yesterday he decided to do something different...

Gotta love the dinosaur noise!

He makes me giggle... a lot

The Office

So, one person's cathartic release might be another's torture but since this is my blog, I claim the right to finally vent about The Office.

It's absolutely ridiculous. I'll give it points for some funny things like Jim putting nickels in Dwight's phone and Parcour, but Steve Carrell is the most awkward man on the planet. I can't see him come on screen without wincing in anticipation of the physically painful things that come out of his mouth. And Dwight is just weird. Ugh. The psychologist in me just wants to put him in a lab and study where his parents went wrong.

But Mitch loves it so I keep this post short and we compromise - I'll watch The Office if he watches Bones with me. :) Don't you just love marriage? He let me sleep in again today, which I apparently needed super bad.14 hours of sleep makes anyone feel better. :)

74 days to Christmas... and yes, I'm counting. :)

http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/xmas_cnt.htm

Haircut!

Derek, Derek, Derek

I feel like I need to sing some praises about Mitch today. He's been exceptionally helpful these past few weeks, especially since Derek has become so clingy and fussy. He's been all over the dishes, making dinner, changing almost every diaper when he's home and he let me take a 5-and-a-half hour nap yesterday. Wow. Even when he's playing video games, he'll stop and play with Derek or take the batteries out of the cordless controller and show Derek how to push buttons. It's so cute. Derek tried to climb into his lap today and Mitch paused his game and tossed Derek up for a couple minutes (he loves it when Mitch does that!), put him down and watched him crawl to the next toy before going back to the game. Wow, I really am lucky. How many times have I heard women complain about their husbands getting sucked into games or not spending enough time with them. I'm glad Mitch has something he can do to relieve stress and still stay home.

Here are pictures and videos of Derek. He loves his daddy, too. :)

Fresh diaper!!

He has the goofiest faces!

He was exploring the kitchen last night while I was napping

Derek kept grabbing Mitch's arm hairs. Too funny!

I swear, he rolls his eyes at me at 0:18!!

No phone, but I have a oober cute family :)

Yep, no phone. Gone. Disappeared. Not to be found on this earth. Gah. We're eligible for an upgrade next month though, so I won't have to be without a phone for too long. Only a month. I called TMobile and had them suspend the phone line so nobody can find my phone and use it. Oh well. At least Mitch won't have to deal with my inability to ever resist the phone ringing, especially during our movie dates. Drives him nuts. :) Here are some cute photos from last night to make this a post worth looking at. Enjoy!

All the toys on the floor and he wants the runaround. Ooookay.

Where Lacey started (notice the head smushed against the laundry basket)

Where Lacey ended - she must like to be smushed

Mitch didn't mind company while he played video games

New Living Room!

Gosh I wish I had proper before pictures. The change is absolutely stunning. We finally have a proper living room - which is also fairly well baby-and-puppy-proofed. Derek loves the new rug and is starting to pull himself up on my legs when I sit at the couches. I was really worried he was going to be delayed on that milestone since we really didn't have anything for him to safely pull himself up on. Lacey already knows not to even go near the couches. She's so funny - loves to gnaw on her bones while laying on a corner of the carpet.

Doesn't it just make you want to read a book? :)

Lovely

Derek scoots really quickly now

I swear he was further away when I started to take the picture!

This was too cute. I looked up from my book and Derek had abandoned his toys, draped himself across his Bumbo chair and was kicking his legs and gurgling to himself. I caught him just as he was getting off the Bumbo chair -*snaps fingers* darn. Funny little face though.

Montage

Some of the highlights of the past two days...

"Guess what I just did, Daddy... and YOU get to clean it up!"
"Joy."

These two have so much fun!

Can you see his "hippo" teeth on the top?

Fun!

"Gonna vom...."

Story behind this one: I put Derek down for the night and Mitch and I were setting up a movie. We heard these sounds coming from Derek's room for at least 15 minutes and finally had to get it on video. My sweet little boy is too cute and funny!