Grandma & Grandpa

Grandma and Grandpa B are here for a visit! Abel is getting lots of love and attention (and new clothes!).

We had him dedicated at church on Sunday. It was a nice service. The pictures didn't turn out that well at church, but we got some good ones afterwards. My mom got him a new outfit - he looked very handsome and all grown up!

We went to the zoo one day. I don't think he really cared about the animals. Maybe in a few months. We thought they were cool. They had zebras, giraffes, elephants, tigers, bears, chimps - it's a pretty good zoo! The chimps were fun to watch. They were giving them bananas and they would peel them and eat them nicely and then eat the peel. Ha.

We gave him a bath yesterday and my mom thought to try out his sunglasses - isn't this picture adorable? I thought he might be bothered by having them on, but he didn't mind a bit. He usually is pretty active in the bath, kicking and splashing, but once we put the glasses on him he was really chill. Maybe it was the new view.

Here are a couple other pictures from the week, and from earlier - I haven't updated the blog in a bit.

He's getting really close to sitting up on his own.

He likes to roll over a lot now, and has started trying to do it in his swing. Maybe we should strap him in.

Family Pictures

I realized recently that almost all of the pictures on here (and that we take in general) are just of Abel. That's okay because he's pretty cute, but I want to try to be better about taking pictures of him with us too - so that later he realizes that he does indeed have parents. It's hard to remember to bring out the camera in the evenings, but we got some the other day.

So far he hasn't turned out to be the chunky baby I thought he might be earlier in life (and that his dad wishes he would be), but he still has cute little rolls on his legs.

We swaddle him at night and for his long nap. He doesn't really like it that much but it is necessary keep him from flailing his arms and waking himself up. I will often come out in the morning to find that he has gotten his arms out. Lately, he has been really cute when he wakes up - he will just talk and coo for a while, playing by himself. I think this was right after a nap.

Of course, then the hand goes to the mouth - he loves to chew on those hands! J is fearful that we may have a thumbsucker, but we're hoping it's too early to tell.