Six months and delightful

I can't get enough of this kid. I love six months. Six months is my favorite. Seven months probably will be too. And then eight. But for now, I love six months.

He's starting to sit up on his own for a few seconds at a time followed by a slow tumble to the side or back. This is best done on the bed.

It was dark and I only had some lamps to light the room. I kinda like them though.

Baby's first election

Happy end of the election season everyone! We took Nathan to the polls yesterday morning, and he was impressively good considering how long he'd already been up and the fact that the line was about an hour. Hooray for civic engagement!

Brian still loves the shoulders hold for Nathan. He still likes to not use hands. This still terrifies me. 

Not much has changed on that one. 

And let's be honest, everyone loves a naked baby!

Charger recovered!

We found the battery charger for the good camera!  We've been looking for it for MONTHS since we moved. To see the difference in quality, compare the first photo with the rest of them. Yayyyy!  Yes, we do realize that we could have bought a new one before this, but we didn't. 

P.S. Nathan had some seriously dangerous fingernails the other day and rubbing his eyes did a number on his face. He's looked like he got in a knife fight for the last few days, but it's starting to heal up. 

I'm so glad Dad found the charger!

I didn't get any great ones this afternoon, but I'm so happy I'm still going to share them. 

Food is going much better. Bananas, apples, and today, carrots, have all been big hits.

Jess and Aunt Mary

We were so excited for Jessie to be visiting today, but when we found out Aunt Mary would be joining us we were thrilled. Apparently her power has been out most of the week due to the storm so she was taking refuge at Jessie's. It was fantastic to see her. She hadn't seen Nathan since he was just a few weeks old and he's come a long way since then!

I didn't get any great photos of Nathan with Jessie, but I did get this adorable video!

Liz and John and the kids came over for dinner and we all had a wonderful time. Zach pretty much thinks that Untle Brian walks on water. It's adorable.

Nanny down!

I heard from Mom today and she begged for a post. I'm a sucker for people who love my baby.

We got a call Wednesday morning from Cathy saying that she was coming down with some kind of stomach bug. Trooper that she is she said it was up to us if we wanted her to come. It turns out that she's had the flu. Obviously, we told her to stay home and feel better. This was the first time we'd been in this position since starting the nanny share, so this is a trial run for us! Usually I would beg help from my parents, but they are still off galavanting in Rome, so we were on our own(ish).

On Wednesday Brian stayed home with us and did daddy duty while I worked. Gratefully, Nathan gave us some long easy naps which meant we were able to get a lot of work done given the fact that we were taking care of him.

On Thursday, I took Nathan to Liz's house and she did some heavy lifting while I got work done. It was really wonderful to see the Wyderkos though, it had been far too long!  I love those people more than I can say! Somehow I managed not to get any pictures of Zach. In my defense I know I took ones of him with Liz's camera.

Liz also got a request from Mom for a Halloween post. She was taking some precious napping time to fulfill the request and made a comment about her readership, namely that Mom and I are the only people who read it. I firmly believed this not to be the case so we pulled up her site tracking stats. Blogger doesn't go very deep with their analysis, but it shows the number of page views on any given day. It also breaks it down by how many people click on a particular post title to read it. She had been looking at that number (not page views), which really does make it look like only 2 or 3 people ever read your blog. It should be noted that at every family gathering we all gush over how much we read the thing, so the fact that she thought we were all just FLAT OUT LYING FOR YEARS had me laughing hysterically. Sorry Liz, I totally just blew you up, but it has been tickling me for the last 24 hours.

Leah was very intent on the difference in size between her and Nathan. Hands, feet, height, etc. She was very frustrated with Nathan for not leaving his feet still enough to compare them. What an uncooperative baby.

Today I stayed home and actually managed to get quite a lot of work done considering. Nathan was an extra good napper, and he's really been loving the jumper lately so he was able to entertain himself while I largely neglected him. Let's just say this week has made me appreciate Cathy even more than before. We are hoping she's over the flu on Monday for all our sakes.

Nathan doesn't seem to have suffered from the neglect.