Three months old!

Gus is three months old today! It's pretty hard to believe.....
Anyway, last night Kevin was playing with Gus and they were having a pretty entertaining conversation. I only caught the end of it, but still kind of funny.

The weirdest egglplants ever

We finally had a relatively unbusy weekend. Although I start to panic when I don't have plans, it was kind of nice to not have much to do. I got some long-needed cleaning done, baked cookies, went for walks, and got a bit of knitting done (although this sweater seems to be taking forever). I also did some yard work and picked some stuff in the garden. We've still got about 8 eggplants that are trying to get bigger in the cooler weather. But I found the weirdest eggplant ever....and then I found another one! Has anyone ever seen anything like this?!?



See dad, we have some hops.



I also spent the weekend inventorying Gus's 3-6 month size clothes, since he needs to dress warmer now, and since a lot of the 0-3 month stuff doesn't fit anymore. I was worried he didn't have enough pants or long sleeves, but I think he'll be more than fine (mostly thanks to Jenny loaning us John's clothes). Gus continues to be entertaining, but I have the hardest time taking pictures of him being cute, because when I put a camera in his face, this is what he looks like:



This weekend we dug into his toys for the first time, and we found he likes this rattle. We have to put it in his hand, but then he holds onto it forever.





Saturday we went to Arnold for Angie and Matt's open house. Gus got to spend some time with his friend Anna :)

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!