I don't know anything.....

But here are a few pictures....

Gus talking and smiling

Man, uploading videos takes forever. I edited this (finally figured it out) so it was shorter, so hopefully there's still enough cute smiles and noises.
I had to take the movie from a weird angle....when the camera is in Gus's face directly, he just stops doing what he was doing and stares at the camera (I think he does so briefly in the middle of this one).
As I promised, Jenny.....now you must reciprocate with more pictures or movies of your kid!

Hop in the City!

The highlight of my fall has now come and gone. This weekend was the annual Hop in the City at the Schlafly Tap Room. This was either the 6th or 7th year Kevin and I have gone....I guess I need to count the glasses in our cabinet to see how many its been. But we always have a great time. This year was no exception! We went along with Lauren and her sister Shawn and one of Shawn's friends, and Jen and her friend Katie met up with us a bit later. Good times were had by all (I think). My favorite tastes were the Pumpkin Ale (always...), Cask conditioned American IPA, and Biere de Garde. Kevin said he was going to taste all 43 beers, but he kept coming up with exceptions (like....'I'm not tasting the ones that they sell in bottles' and 'I'm not tasting any of the dark beers'.....can you say cheater?). But anyway, we had a good time while Grandma June took care of Gus. There were certainly people there with babies (even one that had to only be a couple weeks old !!!!!!).....people are stupid.

The Southwick girls



Me and Kevin



Jen had a very good time! Too bad this picture is blurry.....



Kevin took this picture. I guess he saw this guy was going to try to get in it, so he waited til he was posed like he was supposed to be. Dammit Kevin, this would have been a good one of me and Jen!



Sunday was Kevin's brother's birthday, so we went to his mom's house for dinner. Then we went to Breese to visit Kevin's grandma, and this was the first time she saw Gus. I really liked Gus's outfit, but I forgot to take any pictures of just him.

Four generations



This morning Gus went to the doctor for his 10 week checkup (almost a week late - he'll be 11 weeks tomorrow). He weighs 14 lb 5 oz, and is 24.5 inches tall....everything was in the 75th percentile. He's officially supposed to be out of size 1 diapers.....but we have a few more to use up at home and at day care before we open up the packages of size 2!!!

Things have been crazy busy for me at work. I've been running back and forth a lot between Wash U and the Danforth Center....this is good for passing the time quickly, but not conducive to pumping.....but I'm managing. I also decided to apply for a post doc fellowship that's due next Thursday (!!!!) and there's a meeting I have to go to this week that I have to make a poster for. A bit too much to do, but I guess that's better than doing nothing! I'm certainly glad to be getting back into the swing of things at work though.

I did finally get a couple good videos of Gus taking/smiling...so I either have to figure out how to edit them so they're shorter, or see if they'll upload faster at work than they do at home. We'll see.

Another random video

I had one video I was trying to upload forever without luck. So I just tried to upload this to see if it works. I intend to get a video soon of Gus really smiling and jabbering....but you just get this boring one for now.

Helping the Cards Win

Not much interesting to share. But here's a few pictures.

Gus and his friend Max (6 months old this week)....their arms are linked up - very cute!



Close up of their cute faces!



With the Minnie at the power show



With Dad on Grandpa Thole's tractor



I went to the Cards game on Monday, so I thought it was a good time for Gus to wear his Cards onesie for the first time. I think it helped the Cards out of their (brief) losing streak!

Getting back to work

This is the fourth time I've tried to do this post....my stupid old computer keeps shutting off for an unknown reason. So I'm not sure how much I'll write.....

Last week was my first week back to work, and Gus's first week at day care. Everything is going well so far for both of us. The day care people like Gus because all he does is sleep. He's been sleeping really well at night too (about 7.5 hours at a time) so we certainly can't complain!!! Work for me has been fine....I eased myself back in last week but this week will be mostly full days. I'm grateful for the lists I made telling me what I needed to do when I came back to work, but its still a little overwhelming. I'll catch up eventually.
I've been really bad about taking pictures of Gus lately. He's smiling a lot more often, and he's discovered his tongue, so I have a few new pictures of that.

He was so excited and smiley here he almost looks like he's cheering :)


Hanging out with dad


I'm so cute when I smile


Here's my tongue!!


Jackie and Allen closed on their house in Glen Carbon on Friday, so we spent a good amount of the weekend at their house helping out. Sunday everyone helped with painting the bedroom and living room, and Monday the new laminate floor went in the living room. They'll probably start moving this weekend. Gus will be so sad when Aunt Jackie moves back to Illinois!

Mom painting in the bedroom


Dad painting in the living room


All the guys at work painting


Kevin gets started on the flooring


All done! Just a few more trim pieces needed....


Not much else going on. I'm done with the two baby blankets I was making for my friend Heather's twin boys (and I got them done before the babies came - woohoo!) so now I'm working on a sweater. Things go so much more slowly now with Gus around, but hopefully I'll finish this short sleeved fall sweater before its too cold to wear. We shall see.....