First Birthday Party

FYI - I am no longer apologizing for the length of time between posts. It is what it is ;-)

Simon's first birthday party was on Saturday. A little early, but he didn't seem to mind. Here's a video of the cake thing. It's a little long even though I cut it as much as a parent could. Looks like I need an impartial editor.

Worst. Blogger. Ever.

Sorry, I'm the world's worst blogger. It has been almost three months and that's quite a while in baby-time. I've got some crawling video I need to get posted. Simon figured it out about two weeks ago. The first week, I don't think he quite grasped how big of a deal it was... but now he's exploring everything. He is quickly showing us the things we missed in baby-proofing.

I've posted some more web albums that pretty much recap what's happened in the last three months.

Miscellaneous shots from the last three months:
http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/MorePhotos

First Christmas with Nancy's side of the family:

http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/1stChristmasNancySSide

First Christmas with Erik's side of the family:

http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/1stChristmasErikSSide

Nancy ran the Phoenix Marathon in January. Six months post-partum and qualified for Boston... not too shabby! The Springers, Simon, and I were there to help cheer her on:

http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/PhoenixMarathon

Nancy's Mom, sisters Brenda and Lisa, and Lisa's girls Shannan, Shelby, and Kara came down to our house for a visit:

http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/WeekendWithTheLadies

I took an afternoon off and met Nancy and Simon downtown so Simon could go to the Lincoln Children's Museum for the first time:

http://picasaweb.google.com/kirenosnhoj/LincolnChildrenSMuseum1stVisit

That's probably enough for now. We'll see if I can get that crawling video posted before he's walking...

"SANTA! I know him! I know him!"

Lincoln Racquet Club had Santa stop by tonight. Unfortunately, Simon missed out on playing tennis with Santa earlier in the evening. That must have been quite a sight! Maybe next year, buddy.

Bonus points to the first reader to name the movie quoted in this post's title. In case you need help, remember... yellow ones don't stop.

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.