Christmas!

Here's Brennan's couch photo at 4 months. This was taken the day after his last doctor's visit, where he weighed in at 14 lbs. 4 oz, measured 26" long, and screamed through 4 vaccinations.

It's getting hard to get smiling photos, because every time I point the camera at him he stares and gives me the "what is that?" face. His daddy managed to get one, though. He's playing his favorite game, Grab The Feet. In fact, it's becoming something of a challenge to take a picture of him NOT grabbing his feet. He's also Mr. Roly-Poly these days, which is fun when he's on a blanket on the floor, not so fun when he's in his bassinet, it's 3 am, and he's stuck on his belly and not happy about it.

And here he is, reading. He's advanced.

Brennan's biggest Christmas gift was one of those godawful exer-saucer things, a riot of plastic and beeps and rattles, probably made in some third world country by children not much older than him. He's a little small for it, so sometimes he prefers playing with his shirt to reaching for the fun stuff.

Laika enjoyed Christmas a lot. He even put something under the tree.

So, onto the presents!

No, we did not change his outfits multiple times during gift opening. In what will be a huge shock to NO ONE, he became overwhelmed pretty quickly by all this Christmas stuff. We could get through about 3 presents before melting down. This is a pretty representative photo of the experience.

So here's a multi-day Christmas gift montage.

Of course, it's not all screaming at wrapping paper all the time here. There's also bathtime - he's just about outgrown the bath bucket, but he still manages to grab those feet.

He's getting a little big for his newborn towel, so we've had to introduce the zebra towel into the mix. It's giant, so I can wrap him up like a baby burrito.

Whew. A lot of photos to wade through, I know. You must be tired.