Simon the Snowbird

Simon, Nancy, and I went down to Florida for Thanksgiving. Obviously, this year we had many things for which to be thankful. Most of those were Simon-related, but still.

Nancy and I learned a great deal on our first long-distance trip with an infant. Mainly, we learned that Chaos Theory is alive and well. For those unfamiliar with the theory, its gist is that if a butterfly flaps it wings in China, Simon will scream when he should be happy. Or, vice versa.

One thing we learned is that infants like weather delays in airports as much as the rest of us. I'm sure that played into the meltdown Simon had while we waited for an hour on the tarmac in Chicago. However, knowledge of that provided no solace to the 57 rows of passengers that could not escape his shrill protestations.

All in all though, we had a great trip. It was very nice for Simon to see Uncle Troy, Grandma Jane, Grandpa R.C., and Great-Grandma Verla again.

There are a couple of new web albums available now on our Picasa site. They are as follows:

These are the pics from the Florida trip...

http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/FirstFloridaTrip#

And these are from a trip to Yankton...
http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/ThanksgivingInYankton#
(Looks like I didn't get the camera out enough in Yankton. Those four are pretty cute tho)


Until Next Time!
Erik

Precursor to Crawling

This was taken at Brian and Nancy's house. Those plastic keys were out of reach before he inch-wormed his way to them. It's only a matter of time now. I better get our house child-proofed soon!

First Meal

Here's video of Simon's first meal. There was clearly some confusion on both ends of the spoon. At the end, you can hear Nancy trying to keep Kensi at bay. I think some of the neighbor dogs may have told her how awesome it is when babies eat... food flying everywhere!

Youth Vote Comes Through

Simon was very excited to learn that Obama won the election. At this stage in his life, he votes very selfishly. He figured his tax bill would look better under Obama, since he currently makes less that $250,000/year. By the time he's clearing more than that with his professional golfing/freelance-Astrophysicist career, Obama will likely be nearing the end of his term.

Happy Halloween!

As you can tell from the picture, Halloween is Simon's favorite holiday so far... though that isn't really saying much, since he hasn't seen them all yet. It's only his fourth holiday ever, and that's counting Columbus Day, which is really weak ;-)

Simon was a Rollin' Stone

Simon rolled over on his own for the first time today! Nancy and I were both there watching it happen, and we probably freaked him out with our reactions. Alternate titles for this post are as follows:

Rollin' with my Homies
That's how I Roll
The Roll of a Lifetime
Rock 'n' Roll, Coochie-Coo... Lordy Simon, light my fuse
"Let's Roll." (too soon?)
Simonroll (like a Rickroll, but cuter)
MMORPG (Mommy & Me Observed Roll Playing Guy)

If you got the joke on those last two... that's a sign you spend too much time on teh internetz! LOL!!!!!111! (again with the internet "humor", jeez I need to go outside).

If you're interested, here are some photos from the baptism weekend.

http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/SimonSBaptism#

Baptism on Sunday

Hey all, I was going to say sorry it has been so long since our last post, but this is becoming a habit. So, now we'll just say this is right on schedule.

So, let's see... what's new? Well, Simon's growing quite a bit. He had a check-up a couple of weeks ago, and we found out that he was 24 inches long, and 13.1 pounds. Apparently that puts him in the 90-95th percentile for length, and 75th for weight. I guess that's good, or at least not bad ;-)

Simon is getting baptised on Sunday at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Sioux Falls. We're hoping he doesn't have any sort of meltdown in church.

Nancy's time off from work is just about over, so that means that Simon will be going to daycare very soon. We've been trying to prepare him for it, but it's more likely that we are the ones that are unprepared. We'll see who does more crying on Monday, Nancy or Simon. (Certainly not me... I'm all tuff and stuff :-).

Finally, there are some more photos posted. Same site as before, the new album is called Misc Shots (9-14-2008). You can get there using this link: http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/MiscShots9142008#