Things I'm learning as a new parent

So a couple of months in, here's some of the fun stuff I'm learning along the way:

1) While showering your child, hold them facing away from you so that when they pee (which they WILL do) the pee stream is heading in a direction that is not your face. Babies seem to aim for the eyes...

2) If your child is engaged in some behavior or activity that is pleasing to you, DO NOT SAY ANYTHING ABOUT IT. For example, if your baby has gone to sleep and by some miracle is still sleeping silently after 3 minutes, do not say anything about it. If you then say "She seems to finally be asleep", this is the moment the universe will punish you and the baby will wake up screeching and pooping.

3) Baby crying is oftentimes quite funny and you and others can get quite a kick laughing at their cute little whimpering. However, this rule is not in effect after midnight. At that point, baby cries are hideous works of unholy demonic pain that induce you to invent new swear words.

Small photo update!

Yeah, not nearly as many as last time, but still some pretty cute junk in here. So check it out!!

Various Autumn Summer pics

Huge photo update!

I kind of hate to blow so much info in one update but I finally got around to uploading a ton of pics to the album. I wish I had some funny stories to pass along, but there's only so far you can take poop, fussy, and lack o' sleep stories before they all start sounding the same. And that's kind of what life consists of at this point. Lack of sleep, fussing baby, and pooping baby. There's probably more to it than that, but that's all you feel exists in your life at this point. And the poop...so much poop....

Well, I can say that it is getting a little bit more interesting in that she is finally starting to learn how to smile. She's not doing it a whole lot, but you can see that she's finally starting to put together the concept of "I feel good" thus "I smile". And when she does do it while looking at you...man, it really does totally make it all worth it. You forget about all the other crap (literally & figuratively). I haven't caught it on film yet, but when I do you can be sure I'll get it posted up!

So anyway, on to the pictures. I've got two brand new albums created and then I put a few pictures into the "Family Life" album. So check it out and enjoy!

Friends of Autumn

Family life

Autumn at 1 month

The family is back from Italy.

And they brought souvenirs. My family members out of their minds...

(And before someone freaks out, it's a photo of Michelangelo's "David".)

Bathing da monkey!

Ok, it might be a tad on the long side (a little over 8 minutes) but that's 8 minutes of stupid cute baby-ness folks. Can you get a better deal on your 8 minutes?! No you can't! So watch and be amazed as Autumn is cleaned of all her filth and grime!!

If you can't see the video go to this link and it should work.

Baby monkeys like to wake early...

Well it's a little bit before 6am right now and I've got a very awake bebeh monkey in my lap while momma trys to grab some sleep before I head to work. I'm about to do a search on tranquilizers for newborns...

**Update** Successful sleep inducing was accomplished at 6:40am. Not too bad. And I didn't have to resort to chemical inducement (alcohol) either!

Video poll

Guys, I'm trying to find a good quality video player so I want your input here. You'll see 3 videos below and I want you to vote for the player you like best. The poll is beneath the final video. Also, make sure that you've got the latest version of Flash installed. Go HERE and click on the button that says "Get Adobe Flashplayer". If for some reason you can't view any of them or don't like any of them, just post it in the comments. Thanks!

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Autumn At The Grandparents