My apologies that the blog updates have been coming slowly as of late. I’ve been working on a few updates behind the scenes. One improvement that you may be interested in is the ability to sign up for email notification when new posts are published. Just click the “Email Notification” link in the navigation bar and enter your email address.

If you don’t want to subscribe to updates, perhaps you can consider using a blog reader such as Bloglines.  It’s my favorite way to keep up on the blogs I’m subscribed to.

And since this is a photo blog, here’s one of G relaxing in his high chair after enjoying a nice hearty banana-oatmeal breakfast.

Mommy and daddy both had off of work on Friday, and G-unit was incredibly happy to have both of his parents at home spending time with him.  We went for a lot of walks around the neighborhood and spent time just generally hanging around outside.  The temperatures reached the upper 50′s Friday…and after 5 months of cold it felt wonderful.

G’s back to sticking his tongue out again.  It’s funny how he cycles through different quirks like that.  Here are some photos of our time on the driveway Friday.

The outcome was not pretty.

So last weekend mommy and daddy bit the bullet and decided to let baby G cry when he woke up during the night.  He had been getting progressively worse staying asleep at night, so we decided it was time.  It was a painful two nights.  But it was completely worth it ’cause since then he’s been sleeping wonderfully!

The downside to letting him sleep through the night is that he’s been getting out of his swaddle much more than he used to.  Coupled with the fact that he’s very close to establishing mobility, we decided it was time to lower his crib.  He’s growing up so fast.  One day he’s sleeping through the night and you’re lowering his crib, the next he’s leaving for college.  Perhaps he’s not growing up that fast, but he is starting to take on many more characteristics of a little boy.

Here’s some photos of the proud boy showing off his new, lowered crib.

So we entered 3 photos of baby G in the milwaukeemoms.com cutest baby contest.  Below are the three photos we entered.

Just click on the photo you like best, and you’ll be taken to a page to vote for our boy.  Make sure you click the photo you like best, as you’re only allowed to vote for one photo per day.  But stop back each day this week and vote!

Unfortunately, you do have to register at milwaukeemoms.com in order to cast your vote.  The competition is open through February 20th, with winners announced on February 23rd.

Last weekend we decided to take some photos of G-Man playing around in his hamper.  We were able to fire off a few frames but it wasn’t long before he had enough of that game.

I’ve been playing around with a couple of post processing techniques.  I’m not sure what I like yet.  I’ve had the idea that I need to start to define some type of style, to give a certain look to my photos that make them distinctly my own.  The Kaiser’s come to mind…they have a unique look to their photos that make them unmistakably theirs.  Eh, who am I kidding.  I’m still happy with photos I take that don’t suck.  Here are a couple more of our boy.

We liked this one so much I decided to use it for the blog header.

We had beautiful weather here in the Midwest this weekend.  OK, beautiful is always relative…but any time we get upper 40′s and lower 50′s in early February we’ll take it.  G-money spent a lot of time outside this weekend enjoying the sun.  It definitely put us in the mood for Spring.

Here he’s spending some time with grandma out on the driveway.  He’s only bundled up in his snowsuit because he just got back from a 3 mile walk around the neighborhood with mom and dad.

So it was momma’s birthday on Saturday, and it’s grandma’s birthday today!  Happy birthday grandma!  We took some photos this weekend to give grandma as a gift.

Here’s the world’s cutest lumberjack, in a hat specially made by grandma.  Grandma always makes the best hats…I really think she should start selling them on etsy.

Perfect fingers and toes.

We hope you had a wonderful birthday today!  We love you!

Mommy and daddy (mommy especially) are so thrilled our buddy boy slept through the night last night!  He went to bed at his normal bedtime, around 7:30, and didn’t wake up until 6:45 the next morning.  Of course, momma didn’t sleep much past 2 am since she was anticipating his waking up…the same way he had done every night since August of aught eight.  Hopefully he does just as well tonight!  We’re so proud of you G Money!

Our new baby is born!  (the blog, that is).  And thanks for visiting.  I’m resisting the temptation to write a life story here in this first post, document my goals and visions for the blog, describe our plans and aspirations for the future…but then I wouldn’t have anything to look forward to blogging about.  So instead, I’ll keep it simple.  Here’s a photo of our fine baby boy.  We took this photo last weekend with the thought of using this in the header for the blog.  I’m still not happy with the blog theme I came up with, but it’s good enough for getting started.