Simon family in the snow

The snow is deep but we are staying cozy.  Papa is visiting from California- we'll get a picture of him with his boy shortly.  The photo above was taken by our friend, Robin, also from Oakland, who happened to be driving through.  Thanks, Robin!

Bubbe's Visit (and drinking from a cup)

CUTE ATTACK!


See it to believe it: Jeremy is now drinking from a cup (breast milk, and assisted by his Mama)- initiated by him during a bath, when he REALLY wanted to drink out of the plastic cup we use to rinse him. So, during the next feeding, we put a little milk in a cup and VOILA! He kept wanting more and more. Since he still isn't thrilled about eating from a spoon, we put a little bit of rice cereal in his cup (very runny), and he lapped that up, too. If we keep this up, we may be able to skip the whole 'sippy cup' stage (and its associated problems).

Other news: Bubbe (Mama's mother) is visiting from Cincinnati right now, and (as the photo shows) isn't interested in her grandson at all... ;-) Lucky boy, he gets to see his Papa (Mama's father) next week, as well! What an unloved boy...

Bath Time!

I just had to post these picture for the fans.  His grandfathers were both overcome with emotion when they first witnessed a bath- the cuteness is nearly unbearable.  Let me know what you think of the editing to the second photo- too much?  He looked like an ad for baby soap or something, so I thought I'd give the editing a try.  The first one is more like a surprise shot.  As you can see, he is sitting and pushing up more and better all of the time- don't worry, though, he was within arms reach for both pictures.  Other big news: he has now really, truely slept through the night two times in a row now (i.e., 11 hrs straight).  Can you believe that he is over 5 months old, already?!

Here is Grandpa Simon- I'd show you a photo of him kissing Jeremy after his bath, but you can't see his face.

Baby's First Hannukah

Although it doesn't mean much to him yet, Jeremy has been enjoying his first Hannukah- especially his musical dreidel from Grandma and the gift his Great Uncle David and Great Aunt Trisha gave him: a panel that he can kick to make farm animal noises and music. Kick the cow and it moos, the pig oinks. I don't know what we are teaching him with that exactly, but Fran is eager to graduate him to something with soccer goals on it.

Baby's first solid food

Baby opens wide for the first spoonfull...

...Success! After hearing/reading so much about how difficult it is to introduce solid food to babies, our expectations were pretty low- we only made a tablespoon worth of rice cereal, and planned a bath afterwards. But, boy was our little guy ready! He gobbled up what we gave him (see the open mouth photo above) and could have eaten more. We should have known, considering the way he had been eyeing everyone's plate on Thanksgiving!