Holiday Round Up

It has been two months since our last entry and boy have they been wonderful. Augie has made his first trip to Oregon to celebrate his first Thanksgiving and his wonderful paternal grandparents fiftieth wedding anniversary. Between you and me I was pretty thankful that those two got together! Augie has also survived his first Christmas with only minor bruising and a minimal amount of freakouts by everyone involved. All is good in the hood!


GRANDPARENTS!!!!







































Family togetherness. aww.

















Bill in a hat.



















Augie playing with that baby that lives in the overflow.
















A couple of the best gifts EVER!















Quack.

very VERY frightening.

Dr. Frankenstein with his creations.
















Augie's very first Halloween party. He's a mad scientist!












Gearing up for the outrageous fun he's about to have! But shhhhh, baby's sleeping.





















Look at my pumpkin, it is FABULOUS!









The littlest pharmacist, awww.













Dr. Frankenstein gets told how it is done by the Green Hornet.















HeyHAY HAY









Augie is ready to go...














Dr. Augie considers the pumpkins.



Lenny, the dog, shows off his costume and struts his stuff.
Augie feasting on the blood and bones of the innocent.

6 months

At half a year old baby has learned to do tons of things on his own. Soon our little snorglepuss won't need us anymore....

He can get up...

He can get down!

He is working on feeding himself.
He has mastered the straw sippy cup.
This last photo isn't depicting any particular skill but I think he looks just like Bill in this one.

Completely gratuitous.

So Augie, Lenny and I went to the wiener dog races in the park today. It was a beautiful day and a great event. There were lots of dogs and most of them were in costume, I mean, is there anything cuter than dogs in costumes?

Crawling...almost.

Augie has the basics of crawling in place and he can even manage some forward motion. But then this crazy flash dance mood always comes over him and he starts doing some dance routine on all fours...adorable but not terribly effective.


Step 1: Smile big and set your resolve.

Step 2: Get into the appropriate position to commence forward locomotion.

Step 3: In position now... MOVE!















Step 4: Forward ho!















Step 5: Reconsider..do baby floor dance routine.

Birthday Madness!!!!

Bill recently had a birthday and we did it right. Party, hats, cake, pie and all the fun a guy can handle.



Gorgeous birthday boy.













Augie and Lenny are ready to yell surprise!





Singing a song and blowing out candles. Bill was rather impressed with my baking skills--I was rather impressed by the color of the icing.












The morning after.

Visiting two of many.

So Augie decided it was high time to visit a couple of uncles. He enjoyed spending time with Marty and Pat and can not wait for more time with the relatives!




I'm up, where are the uncles at?













Getting to know Uncle Marty over a couple of delicious beverages.

Look we're the same height!





Uncle Pat was awesome--didn't mind me putting the moves on his lady friend--awesome.

Augie in Wonderland

Augie had quite the adventure today....

"Well this isn't right...I'm tiny. How did this happen?"


"Well maybe if I take a bite of this it will help."



"No, this isn't right. I'm a giant. What will I do?"


"Maybe if I nibble this end...."

Our weekend.

It was just me and Augie this weekend. We had a great time together and were able to reconnect on a deeper level. We laughed, he cried and had an all around stellar time.


We spent some quiet time reading.







We really had some great talks. Believe it or not this kid is a great listener








Of course he has opinions too and I was more than happy to hear him out.




We played games. Augie's favorite...'Guess what I'm hiding in my rolls?'.









I particularly enjoyed playtime. Augie impressed me with his unending repertoire of up/down dance combos.