Nick and Brandi went out for a day to have lunch with the girls and meet a new addition to her friend Jessica's family. He's in the middle of this kid pack with a 3-year old girl and 2 year-old boy ahead of him, and a new-born girl behind him. He spent the afternoon cooing at the 3 year-old girl, poking at her, giggling at her, and enjoying her company. Supposedly he had no interest at all in the little boy, not even eye contact. It appears he has mastered the art of flirting already. Don't know where he got that from.
Looking forward to getting the swimming pool open in a few weeks as he seems to love the water. Nothing soothes him like a warm tubby. (Of course, nothing angers him like pulling him out of his warm tubby.) Brandi squirts him with the rinse bottle, and he loves to open his mouth for a fountain drink. He splashes water all over like she's bathing a live salmon in the sink. It takes 3 towels to bathe him - one to wrap him up and two to mop up the water from the floor.
While I've tried to keep him on a steady exposure to sports highlights and playoff basketball, his mother lets him watch Baby Einstein videos. His favorite character is Bard the Dragon. Although I hear he likes The Sopranos, too. That was Brandi's show of choice during pregnancy to relax her, so he must recognize the sound. I think we'll be reducing his exposure to that show soon, though.
He has graduated from the floor play mat to the bouncy play seat. The folks who invented these contraptions really did their research - a rubber smiley-face sun to chew on, a plastic frog to flip, and dials, and knobs, and buttons to distract the child long enough for the parents to get a cup of anything with caffiene. I'm convinced these people are in cahoots with the alkaline battery
manufacturers. I've already spent more money on batteries for these noisy getups than the boyscouts spend on their flashlights for a full year.
More vidoes posted at right. As much as it's cool that he looks alot like me, I was hoping he would inherit his mother's skin which doesn't burn from the mere reflection off the television set. No such luck. Enjoy new pictures of the world's whitest baby.
- Jason
