ExerSaucer - is that a spaceship or a new fitness machine?

Baby O got an ExerSaucer for her 1/2 birthday. Apparently from her facial expressions, it is a more serious toy than we thought. If you're not familliar with the ExerSaucer concept, it's a stationary replacement for a baby walker. Baby O stands in a harness and is surrounded by toys that move and make noise.

Loosen up kid! I've been trying for years to get your mom to relax.

Nap Time???

When you're not in the mood for a nap... You must escape!

Mom's Little Cleaner

Over the last few days, Baby O has increased her desire to be mobile. She's like her Mom. There is just too much to see and do to be still!

We've noticed that Baby O watches us do the things that she wants to do herself. For instance, we saw her staring at us and moving her mouth as we ate dinner a few weeks ago. Now however, she is very interested in moving around.

She doesn't have quite enough coordination to crawl yet, so she will push up on her hands and slide back on her belly. It doesn't help her too much since our whole house is hardwood flooring. She ends up inchworming around the floor on her belly cleaning as she goes.

New Pictures (September)

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Baby O's First Meal Pictures

Baby O had her first meal of rice cereal. A couple of pictures are posted below, and as always there are links to the right for the complete photo galleries. By the way, we did get a video too. I should have it online soon.

If the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, what about the girls?

Baby O, ate for the first time yesterday.

"Rice cereal, yummy!"

I think she liked it. She

Really That Dependant???

My office email, which is my primary email, has been out for two days now. I really didn't understand how much we depend on email for communication these days. I'm not one of those "check it all the time" kind of guys. I have trained myself to only check email around meal times. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner, that's it! I have found that only checking email three times a day reduces the distractions of a constant barrage of email. Well, now I understand how it feels to have zero distractions in my office -- not so great. Now I feel like I am missing out on the goings on in the outside world.

I mean, I don't know the outcome of the trip my collage buddies take each year, or my favorite blogs update, not to mention the important stuff from clients and customers.

I'm really stranded here without email or a lifeboat to save me!

So, what's the result of this adventure? We'll call it an adventure just to keep a positive spin on things. I have learned - no relearned - how to use the fax machine. Yep, the good old fax. I told someone today that I was going to fax them a document, and they replied, "I'd prefer you email it".

I said, "I will be glad to email it, but the internet is against my office today, and it won't make it to you."

"You don't have email?"

"Not today..."

It's like I'm that guy who wears black socks and Birkenstock's to the beach, and clearly doesn't know any better. Except in this case, I know what it's like on the other side - with email. I just can't get there!

So here I am. My fingers have must be exercised properly as to not fatigue themselves with the lack of email reply.

~S~

Teething Ahhhhh!

We thing Baby O is teething which makes her generally unhappy 99.9% of the time. She's not happy sitting up, sitting down, eating, sleeping, or anything else a baby can do. Yep, "generally unhappy". What do you do -- seriously comments are welcomed? Tylanol helps a little and Baby Oragel just hacks her off even more. We've also tried frozen teething rings, which work as long as we can monitor her and keep them in her mouth.

As I'm writing this, she is somewhat happy and eating one of my belts. Is she crazy? Wait now she's going for one of my "used" socks!

Got it!

Adios... maybe we'll have a better update later.

~S~

PS: I know this is random but The Rubberband Man by The Spinners is playing on I-Tunes and all I can think about is Ron and his pics on their blog. Great pics Ron, and by the way love the McLemore Mitigation Bank t-shirt.

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