The dance...

Aunt Anne and the boys

This picture was taken at Aunt Anne's birthday party at Mimi's house.  We ate shrimp, home made biscuits, cold slaw, cake, strawberries and ice cream.  Anne never said how old she is but since I'm about 45 she must be about 28.  

We're all thankful for the help Anne is giving Jennifer to raise the children.  

Well grounded...

This Baby Baker monkey foot picture was taken several week ago but I just got my copy.   He looks like he's going to be a big strong boy.  He can do a great baby drunk stand and has that offensive lineman look.

Jack is changing and every day we get a new surprise--mostly pleasant.  This morning he marched into his mom's room, who was asleep, told her that Lulu wanted to watch TV and ASKED if he could turn it on.  

In the car the other day when we were talking, he thought I said Jack was at Mimi's house.  He laughed and said, "Jack in car, Papa!"

I'm surprised that a 2.5 years old he has such a grasp on his  location.  For example,  if he is hot to go to Mimi's house, and we take a different route due to traffic, he'll give me the third degree.  "Where we goin', Papa?" Hard to sneak in a quick stop at the Papa Water store with this guy.  

Things we can do: count to 20, recognize colors, say ABC's (and recognize some letters), know darn near all types of construction equipment with special emphasis on trucks, talk on the phone, turn on everything, open any door that's not child proofed, eat with spoon, fork and hands (all at once), sing a few songs and dance (something his mom hasn't learned to do in 40 years).   [Note from Mommy:  Papa is the one who can't dance!  Jack also knows left from right 90 percent of the time.  If you ask him what time it is, he says, "8 clock."  He's learning the days of the week.  And next week we start Greek lessons.  :o)] 

In case you haven't learned enough,  give his Mimi a call and she'll talk about him for hours. 

Now if we can only get him interested in Potty Party Time.  The plan was to start a couple months ago but haven't found anything important enough to Jack to get him to sit still long enough on the potty for something to happen.  I suggested that we tie him to the pot but Mom and Mimi veto all my good ideas.

Little Tiger..2 months old

Baby Baker is becoming Buddha Baby.

His mom has him on a strict schedule which basically means he does whatever he wants,  when he want to. 

These days we're getting a few smiles, lots of arm and leg waving and everything smelling like sour milk.  

He gets to spend a lot of time with his Aunt Anne who is helping out.  They are big buddies and both Auburn fans. In fact, I'm sending this picture to AU Football so they can keep an Tiger eye on him.

Notice the slobber on his chin and shirt?  Right after this picture was taken we had a major stink--the kid lost about 4 pounds-- and Jennifer had to wash EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING.  

NOTE: Two month check up results are in and they are huge.  The boy weights 16 pounds and 4 oz.  He is 26.25" long.  Off the charts on weight and height...all on mommy's milk.  Oh yea, he has 10 toes, 10 fingers and 4 chins.

Two of a kind..kind of

We both slobber a lot and naps are a big deal.  We both like to wave our hands around when we talk but no one listens to us anyway. If we had a barber it would be the same one. He has 3 rolls of fat under his chin and I have a few --but who is counting. 

On the other hand he hasn't found a job yet but we're working on it.  My back side is hairy and his is pink.  With a little luck he'll get out of diapers in a few years and I'll never have to wear them.

Big guy takes a bath...

Little Baby Brother Baker can't talk yet.  He  like to move his arms around and make sounds.  I think he is trying to tell Momma not to get soap in his eyes.  Sometimes I like to pat his head and everyone tells me not to pat too hard.  Baby Baker cries, eats and sleeps but does not play very much.  When he gets older we'll get to play.  At dinner the other night I dropped spaghetti on his head and Mom got mad at me.  I don't like it when Baby Baker cries...Papa says pay back is?

Baby Baker  had his 2 week check up

this week and was off the charts forheight at 23.25" and his weight was 10 pounds 4.5 oz which is in the 97  percentile.