Bath Time

Fun at bath time can include playing with the water or getting new hairstyles! 

Sleepyhead

Some of you might have seen these pictures on Facebook. The other morning when I was off of school due to the cold weather, Phin woke up with some pretty amazing bed head.  There's nothing better than waking up to this smile (and cute hair)!

 

Just Because...

There's no rhyme or reason for these pictures.  I'm just happy to have my camera back and to have a cute little boy to take pictures of.

Holding Hands

Phineas loves his kitties.  He wanted to hold Basil's hand and Basil  reached it out for him to hold.  Basil has been very sweet lately letting Phin pet him.  Of course, Phin loves it!

 

Baby and Daddy

Sweet pictures of Phineas and his daddy.  (I was playing around with my camera modes, so please excuse the lack of clarity in some of these.)

My Lens is Back!!!!

About a month ago, I had to send the lens of my DSLR camera away to get repaired.  I didn't realize how much I loved my camera until I had to part with it.  There is no way I can ever go back to a normal point and shoot camera.  The picture quality and ability to take good pictures in very low light are so different.  Today the fixed lens arrived in the mail!  Hopefully you'll be seeing more (and better) pictures back on the blog!  Hooray!  I would also like to give a shout out to Schiller's Camera and Video in St. Louis for selling me such a great camera and for helping me get it repaired!  

The giant bubble wrap the lens came in sure feels funny on my teeth!  (My 16 teeth.  That's all of the teeth you can get besides your second year molars.  This kids on top of his teeth!)

Being interested in the camera and having fun on Mommy's tummy.

 

Play Date With the Boys

At work right now, 6 of us have little kids/babies ranging from almost 2 years old to around 12 weeks old.  And all 6 of those kids happen to be boys!  Today, since we had the day off for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we got together for a play date!  The boys had a great time and the moms had fun as well.  Phin enjoyed crawling after their dog and getting to eat a delicious amount of goldfish crackers brought by one of the other boys.  Four other teachers are currently pregnant so we'll have to see who's going to be the first to add a girl to this group.

Here are all the boys and moms.  I'm holding someone else's kid and Phin is making a run for it with a toy in the front of the picture.

Here are all of the boys lined up on the couch.

Happy Birthday Aunt Corrie!

Phineas would like to wish his Aunt Corrie a very happy birthday!  He misses you so much and can't wait to see you in February!

 

Happy Birthday Kitties!

We celebrated our furry children's 4th birthdays this week.  They got some special treats and a new laser pointer!  We also tried to celebrate with party hats, but it turns out cats don't really appreciate getting dressed up.

Phin was excited to celebrate with the kitties.  He seemed to be the only one that enjoyed the party hats.

 

He tried to get Cyril to join in.

 But Cyril just kept running away.

Daddy finally got Cyril to wear his hat.

Daddy got to Basil too.

 

Don't kitties look happy in their birthday hats?

 Follow up: Both cats were rewarded generously with catnip mice for taking part in this photo shoot.

Reading with Daddy

Phineas has really been drawn to his Thomas the Tank Engine books today.  He had fun reading them with Daddy and with a kitty.

 

 

New Decor

For Christmas, Phin got some new decor for his room.  He wanted to show off all his new bedding from his Great-Nana (minus the new sheet, he's using his old winter flannel ones since it is so chilly) and his new wall art made by Mommy.  We wanted something that was out of his reach and couldn't hurt him if it happened to fall down somehow. 

 

Peek-a-Boo!

Phineas enjoys playing peek-a-boo.  Today he was having a lot of fun lifting a blanket over his face to play.  He is still pretty under the weather and isn't quite his normal self.  Normally I think he'd be smiling or laughing more when he put the blanket down, but he was still having a good time.  Here's a cute video and some pictures of it.

Sick Little Baby

After a record-breakingly cold start to the new year, I think the weather has finally gotten back to normal.  We had a few days off from school to extend our winter break.  Now that I'm back, I can finally bring home my little camera.  Phin isn't exactly ready to have his picture taken.  With a bad cold, he's feeling extremely under the weather.  However, he can still...

stand at the table to play with whatever his little fingers can reach, 

check out this new camera that Mom has brought home,

walk pushing his shopping cart (which he actually really enjoys no matter how un-thrilled he looks in this picture),

and chew on things (he especially likes these bells right now) while kneeling/sitting like his mom used to when she was a baby.