Everett Laughing

At the beginning of this video you can hear Everett laughing while I am playing with him.

Beach Baby

Amy, Everett and I went down to Naples, FL this past weekend for a wedding. It was a lot of firsts both for us and for the baby. It was his first plane, our first vacation, his first time to the beach and in the Gulf. He was of course dressed to the gills for the wedding. Here are a few of the beach pictures. Keep watching because I have a ton more that will go up in the next few days along with some new videos.


Smiling and Laughing in his carseat at the beach.

Little Everett footprints in the sand.

All dressed up and ready to play.

Getting in the ocean.

One More Picture

3 Months Old

Everett turned 3 months old on 6/19 and we just got around to taking his picture last night. We take a picture each month in the same chair with the same bear (an idea borrowed from a friend). Here are the pictures:

He loves his bear.

Sleepy 3-month old

Everett turned 3 months yesterday and one thing you can say about babies is that they sleep a lot...



Sometimes they fall asleep on Daddy...







Sometimes they fall asleep on Mommy...






And sometimes, they just fall asleep while playing with their toys.

My First Father's Day

Well my first father's day went very well. It started off with Everett handing me my present, a one-hour massage at a local spa. I can't wait to make that reservation.



After that we went to the boat to hang out for a while. It was a hot, sunny day so us baldies(Everett, grandpa, and Daddy) had to cover up with hats and sunglasses. Everett enjoyed his new attire.

We hung out on the boat and played for a while before we went back to grandma and grandpa's house to barbeque.

A full day of sun and food makes people tired and we couldn't resist that hammock in the shade.

Overall is was a great day, full of sun and family.

Playing with Mommy

Here are a few recent pictures of Everett and Amy.

No Pain, No Gain

Well folks, yesterday was a great day for the ride. It was partly cloudy and in the low 70s the entire time. Although the weather cooperated the terrain did not. Who knew there were so many hills in CT? I didn't. I do now. All in all despite the pain it was a good ride and we all finished. Here are the final stats:

Total Miles: 37.99

Avg Speed: 12.07 mph

Max Speed: 34.5 mph
Time: 3 hours: 8 min. 51 sec.
Donations: Around $850 for diabetes research



Thanks to everyone for their support.

Waterbaby - Part deux

I have even more astounding proof of the existence of water babies. Feast your eyes on this:

Waterbaby - A fairy tail for land babies, or real?

Originally published in 1863 by Charles Kingsley, the story of the little chimney sweep that is Tom was a very popular fairy tale throughout the late 19Th century and up through the 1920s. Similar to Peter Pan, another moralistic Victorian fairytale, it contained two worlds, the world of Christianity and the world of fairies. Unique to this novel is perhaps the greatest argument to the existence of water babies and fairies ever offered up:

as the reader says: "But there are no such things as water babies," Kingsley answers with devastating logic: "how do you know? Have you ever been there to see? No one has a right to say water babies don't exist until they have seen no water babies existing."

This argument is so great because of course, you can never prove a universal negative!

However, I now have in my possession even greater proof of the existence of water babies. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I offer it up to you here:

Tomorrow, I will present even more eveidence. Stay tuned!

A Warm, Clear Day

The rain finally stopped yesterday and we had a nice clear evening to spend some time outside. We put on our sunglasses and got together with Amy's parents for quick bike ride. It was a good ride and the boys enjoyed themselves, here is an action shot.

There in the trailer you can see Napolean sticking his head out. So we hit the roads for about 3 miles and although it was nice and clear it was humid so we all got a little sweaty and needed showers. Here are a few pictures of Everett taking a shower in the kitchen sink. He is going to kill me for this when he gets older.

After getting nice and clean he had some milk and went to bed. He slept through the night, I guess the ride wore him out.

Outdoor Life - Part 2

My bike tour is coming up soon, I put together a corporate team of 3 of us (I work at a pretty small company) but we managed to raise close to $750 for Diabetes research. I had been putting in pretty good training rides pulling the stroller behind me. It has rained most of this week so I haven't been able to get out on the bike as much. When I do I will have to take some more pictures. Amy did manage to get one picture and I promised I would post it so here you go:

There are the boys loaded up in the trailer ready to go for a ride.

Outdoor Life

Amy and I decided to start riding our bikes more and picked up one of those baby trailers last weekend. You can see a picture of it below. We put close to 5 miles a night on the trailer and over the weekend our total was about 20-30 miles. We used the car only twice the entire weekend. The baby loves this thing and falls asleep all the time in it. To top it all off, the dog loves it too. He rides in the back and looks out of the windows. We have a good picture of the two of them in there. I will post it in the next few days.

I figure pulling the trailer is good exercise and training for my 31 mile charity ride coming up next weekend. There are more details on that on the right hand side.

Not too much has changed with Everett, he is still a very happy, content, smiling baby. He sleeps through the night now and has rolled over a couple times. He isn't rolling over consistently yet. It is funny to watch because we know he has the strength to do it, it just seems like he is to happy and content all the time to want to roll over.

Genius?

Yesterday Everett worked out the theory of relativity....but then he got tired and fell asleep. I am so proud of him.

Sneaky Everett

Here is another picture of how good Everett is at blending in. Can you find the baby?

2 month update

Everett turned 2 months old last Saturday and continues to grow at a rapid pace. He weighs in at almost 12 pounds now and you can tell from the photo below where he has put on the weight.

He has found his hands and sticks them in his mouth to get them all slobbered up before wiping them all around his face and mommy and daddy's faces. He likes his tummy time and also enjoys watching his mobile go around. There is a new video up (use the links to the right) of him in his crib kicking and watching his mobile. There will also be new pictures in the gallery (the newer pictures are toward the bottom.) Here he is in his Old Navy pajama pants.

Amy has left him alone with me several times and always makes fun of the clothes that I choose to dress him in. Well, she asked for it. When she got home this morning she couldn't see him because he blended in to his surroundings so well.

Clare

There are some new pictures of Clare up in her gallery. These are at about 2 months old. It would sure be nice if she would share some of the hair of hers.

Recent Pictures

Here is a picture from this past weekend in Jersey where we met up with my parents.

A picture of bathtime last night.

This is also from last weekend where Everett got to meet Lindsey.

And this picture, Amy was sneaky about snapping while we were sleeping.

All the pictures will be added to the multimedia section shortly.

New Video

Here is a new video of Everett smiling. Amy took this yesterday. It will be filed in the multimedia section in the future.

All Smiles

Everett has been all smiles the past few weeks. In fact, even at 3:00 in the morning, half naked on a changing table he can't help but look up at Amy and flash her his gums. He also thinks that I am hilarious. He is weighing in at about 11 pounds now and has pretty good neck strength. I have updated the pictures in the album so they can be downloaded but here is that smile.