Be Mine!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Andrew will soon be crawling in a room near you... Watch Out!!!
Is anyone willing to place bets when it will happen? I am guessing in two weeks... March 1st.
We will be in for trouble once that happens! Right now he rolls over to see me in the kitchen... BUSTED! He seems to think this is funny and squawks at me.

He is feeling so strong and heavy in my arms lately~ and becoming such a busy-body. I can no long "casually" clip his nails, it has to be on his terms. He has to be pretty much dead-tired.

His latest toy enjoyments have spanded to playing with balls. He likes to see Mom play fetch for him when they roll across the room, too far out of reach. We like to sit together and play catch with his easily-grabbable Red Sox plush ball :D

Andrew easily enjoys laughter with Daddy: he loves touching noses, grab Dad's ears, hits him in the face and tries to put his hands in Dad's mouth (which Daddy doesn't allow).
Andrew babbled Da-da-da all day long today, with some other sound effects and squeals mixed in.

On a troubling note, he started having an occasional cough yesterday... but today it's more productive-sounding, even woke him 15 minutes into his morning nap (which led to a 1 1/2 hour afternoon nap propped up on a pillow with Mom)... And now his nose is sounding a bit boogery. We tried suctioning it but something Andrew previously enjoyed, now detests. Auntie Wendy suggests doing it in front of a mirror to distract him.
Our next strategy, depending on where this goes, is propping his mattress up a bit (so the fluids run down) and administering saline and booger-suction to prevent this from traveling to his inner ear, causing an ear infection (horrors!)...
Keeping an eye on this one...
Hopefully he is well enough for baby group tomorrow....

Mom gets a hair cut

Before....

Andrew has no idea... What a challenge it was for Mom to get a *haircut* today!!! AHHHH is all Mom & Nanna have to say! It was very trying- especially for Andrew- he just had to be doing something other than hanging out in a hair salon for *3* hours! So yes, it took that long- it was an apprentice cut at a Newbury Street salon, "James Joseph". First, he was fine... Mom got a relaxing scalp massage-shampoo.
The cut started slowly.. much talk about the apprentice's choice of materials, the details of where my parts exist, that my hair is so thick and how my right eye is larger than my left, so that's where the part should go...
Then the teacher became sidetracked with 'weatherproofing' the window behind us with packing tape! AH! Didn't they realize we had a *baby* with us???!
Ah- the joys of being a hair model...
SO..... Nana had him well occupied for an hour or so... Then came lunch time! (We started at 11)... and fussing from baby- well, because, he's used to a good schedule. And what was I thinking, that we'd be outta here by now? After all, we did park at a 2 hour meter...
So, I started to get a bit tense. I could start hearing some fussing from the waiting area...
But Nana made-do. We brought some (not-to-messy/staining) pears and some cereal so she was able to feed him then (all while Mom was reminding the stylist that we'd have to "take a break" soon...)
Then baby became FUSSY!!! He'd had enough... I did feed him a bit but that didn't seem to help. The teacher (reasonably so) advised we *had to do something* b/c there were clients there, etc., (no one could stand fussy baby anymore) but at that point only the back of my hair was cut! What were we to do? Andrew got strapped back into his stroller... and, geez, sent down the elevator to the small hallway with Nana. Throughout the rest of the cut (which thankfully, the teacher "stepped up" the pace), everytime I saw someone come through the elevator, I had to wonder what they witnessed and what Nana was experiencing.
Then, a stranger lady (which I expected would happen), came up and asked, "is that your baby?".. and that my assistance was needed... I bounded downstairs to find Mr. Huff-n-puff, soooo ready for his Mama. Oh Geez!
Needless to say, Nana did an awesome job but we wonder when she'll want to sit again!
Perhaps, after this separation anxiety stage....

After!
Next battle: roots!
It's a "Vidal Sassoon" wash 'n wear style. All one length and still Andrew-proof since I can pull it back into a little pony tail :D Later on, he was batting at a few loose strands- more fun for him, too!