Us with Kee, Kim & Bella.

Today Aeneas is two months old. The last week has been very exciting. Our friends Kee, Kim and Bella came to visit us for a whole week and we had lots of fun. Bella is nearly seven months old and even when she's teething she's full of smiles and giggles. She gave us lots to look forward to -like sitting-up, playing with toys, eating solid food and passing solid poop... isn't growing up great? It is hard to believe that Bella is only 5 months ahead of us. She's practically a different animal.

Aeneas has also been metamorphosizing before our eyes. Over the past week he has started to smile at us reliably. By that I mean that if he's in a decent mood and we make enough faces at him, he will smile and laugh. We thought he was pretty cute before. Now we're sure that he's the cutest thing we've ever seen.

He also seems to be somewhat aware of his hands. He still flails them wildly most of the time. For instance, while he's nursing it often seems like he's trying to have a boxing match with my breast. He punches and dodges while simultaneously sucking as hard as he can. This process is not always pleasant. But, occasionally he looks very concentrated and moves his hands toward his mouth slowly. We're hopeful that he'll get control of his hands soon because the pacifier is tiresome.

Aeneas' first Christmas was also our first Christmas away from either of our families. We had a very relaxing day and made an attempt to start some of our own traditions - such as making green chile pizza for dinner. Aeneas got some nice books and an iDog. It is a little, electronic, dog-shaped toy that dances and shines light patterns when you "feed" it music. We have named him Tiki

Uncle Kee is full of Babies!

Here's a photo with Grandma Susan that didn't get published last week.

First kiss by a hot babe -and an older girl at that! Bella Hope Zublin Robles Reyes arrived in the mail for Aeneas' first Xmas.

Ok, to be fair we thought since we posted quite a few photos where Aeneas is angelic we should post one of his...less photogenic shots.

Our Pediatrician told us to expect baby acne sometime between four and six weeks and as if on cue we woke up the morning he turned four weeks and he was as pimply as a high school boy on steroids. Almost exactly two weeks later they all but disappeared.

The other oddity about this photograph is that it is actually a picture of Aeneas being held upside down. Notice he has something almost like a neck! Since he spent the last four weeks or so of Emily's pregnancy engaged we figure he's accustomed to the position. And indeed he does seem somewhat amused by it.

Is is the Alien?

Is it a Tumor?

Is it Mini-Me?

No! It's Aeneas! 

Mother, Baby, Grandpa, Poinsetta

Dog germs are good for babies, right?

Grandpa Darrell gets blogged!