Some pics

Here are some new photos for you all to enjoy...

I put this one just b/c it's the only one that shows all 4 teeth - I know it's early to tell and these are just baby teeth, but I think that Caleb will have the same gap in his top front teeth that Alex and his mom have. It's super cute. I think it will be a gap and not just a little extra baby-tooth room b/c it's pretty big. We'll see what happens. :)


I think that this was a lounge in the house Sunday or Saturday...and a bad hair day apparently.

It's fun to play on Mommy!


Bath-time is a fun time! He likes his duckies - actually he likes anything that is on the rim of the tub!


Funny face! I bet it made you laugh! I think he was splashing his hands on the water on the tub's edge.

Still cooking - Coraline

Ann Marie has just one month left in her pregnancy! And then we get to meet little Miss Coraline!!! I can't wait!

Last week, Alex shot pregnancy photos for Ann Marie and Eddie - here are some of my favorites.











This one is my absolute favorite! It just FEELS like Ann Marie and Eddie to me - this shot makes me happy.

Zoo Day

A quick post while I drink my coffee before getting Caleb up to take him to the school.

I'm so happy to have a 'mommy-post' -- I'm forever jealous of Lourdes' giant clan of mommies and babies that she always hangs out with.

This past Saturday, 8 mommies and babies went to the Zoo. We all met in our breastfeeding group while on maternity leave. Really, I never see or talk to any of them since returning to work, with the exception of my friend Jackie. We were in the same childbirth class for 8 weeks before our little ones came. Hers is Nina Sophia - gorgeous! Caleb was crawling around after her....she's cute, I don't blame him.

Brown Paper Baby

--Edited so that the video isn't set to private any longer...

It's October yet again - my favorite month - not for any other reason other than it is the start of 'Fall'. I get excited about Fall even though my 2 years in Tennessee in college were the only ones where i experienced the season. Here in Miami it is still Fall, though, sans cooler temps or pretty leaves. It is still 90-some-odd degrees and humid. Oh well - I guess Starbucks will have to be solely responsible for meeting my fall expectations with Pumpkin Spice Lattes and pumpkin bread. **sigh**

Alex and I have been - you guessed - crazy busy. I'm tired. Caleb has been sick. He got a cold about 8 weeks ago and it has waxed and waned in intensity over that time. When I think it's almost gone it returns with an ear infection. Last Tuesday I took him to the doctor because he started with raspy coughing fits on Monday night. The good news was that she didn't hear anything in his lungs - she said he is just very, congested and has a bad cold. He also has an ear infection in the right ear - this is his second during the life of this cold. So he is on antibiotics for the ear infection and a prescription decongestant. I just want him to be WELL - no snotty nose, no lingering cough. Apparently, he didn't get the memo that with breastfeeding and organic food that he isn't supposed to get sick. What the heck?

So notwithstanding his illness, Caleb is still happy and on the go - he is officially mobile. Not graceful, but mobile. He is crawling, but we think he will move quickly to walking because when he crawls after a couple of 'steps' he plants his feet down. He just needs to learn to pull himself up before putting his feet down. I walked at 7 1/2 months - so he wouldn't be far behind me.

Video Friday

First a funny one....



Now a serious one....

Trials

Had ANOTHER car accident today. Except this one wasn't my fault. It was in a parking lot. I'm very upset because - despite it not being my fault, I was the one who was ticketed.

Without getting into it too much. Picture one of those lots w/ the angled spaces so you can only drive one way. I backed out of my spot and was in the driving lane, just as I was putting my car in drive a car backed out and basically swiped the corner of my bumper. My car was scratched, his had a dent (BMW, I might add). He got out of the car and apologized that it was his fault, he wasn't looking.

I call the police, they come. We talk to him and the guy comments that he had been looking at the car beside his spot because it was close. Nothing much to comment about here. Officer takes our paperwork, licenses and goes to his car. He comes out, talks to the guy; he comes over to my car, and he has a citation for me. I was shocked. I argued with him some that it wasn't my fault, the guy even said it was his fault. The officer says that is not what he says, he never said that to him. But because the damage is to the back of my car and the side of his car (a dent); that it must be my fault. Since there are conflicting stories and no witnesses, he is basing this on the damage. I argue more, I was the one who even requested a report rather than just exchange information - why would I do that if I had hit him?? Nothing.

Back at home, Alex and I call the police station and speak to a sergeant. I explain how he must not have paid attention to the man SAYING that he wasn't looking - and that they never talked to me alone, he only talked to me alone AFTER already issuing a citation to me. Nothing. Because of the conflicting story, they can only base it on the damage.

I'm SO angry. What kind of person lies like that?! He KNOWS that he hit me, yet he's totally willing to lie and let me get a ticket! Now I'll have to go to a hearing, then court to fight the ticket; waste my time, have to deal with my insurance company. I'm sure they'll raise my premium b/c I just had that accident that actually was my fault - see I can admit it when it's my fault.