7 months Old

Update. Hunter is over 7 months old, sitting up on his own and eating solid foods. Had a great turkey day and enjoyed the Louisville Parade of Lights from the lead Truck.

A little Reflection

Hey All,

Just as Hunter looks back at himself in his snail toy, we must take a look back at Hunter as well. (I know, cheesy right?) Emily and I have been a bit remiss in posting blogs so we must get caught. You should be pretty caught up on Hunters life by the end of this post. We'll see, here goes. Timing wise, this post starts about a month ago with Hunter's 5 month birthday and pictures. Below you can see Hunter and the whole family. He is posed with his Pooh Bear, which is really going to be funny on his 16th birthday. The whole family is there, including Pooh. I'm pretty sure we are as happy as we look. Hunter is as happy as he looks in the solo picture. He is usually happier when his parents are holding him, I promise.













Dad has been getting better at staying at home with Hunter. I won't lie and tell you that there aren't days when I would like to be at work, or riding my bike. I seek out as much human, adult, contact I can find. Chatting and Skyping have helped a lot. If you wanna get hooked up shoot me an email and we can find each other. Some times I take advantage of Hunter for entertainment. (Too much time alone + Hunters Comb over + one of Emily's hair ties = entertainment for me!) I'm pretty sure this picture will cost me a weeks worth of butt wiping when I'm under Hunter's care, but it's worth it. I think. We don't always dress him up funny. Here he is rocking his Cubs outfit! Emily doesn't follow much baseball, so she put him in this outfit on the first day of playoffs. Also the first day of vacation for the Cubs, again.















We took Hunter to the Pumpkin patch this year! It was pretty fun, although I feel like I missed a lot and didn't contribute much. In retrospect, I think I had the flu. We found 3 good pumpkins and took them home. We got to see some farm animals as well. Then one of us, OK 2 of us, was pretty tired so we headed home. We got the picture of him in his car seat before we got off the lot.












Emily carved her pumpkin and Hunters Pumpkin, when we got home. I only carved the tops off and sat and watched. Making sure to take my medicine on time. It looked like Emily and Hunter were having a good time. Hunter got to play with some pumpkin guts, he was on the fence about them. I think that'll be different next year. Here is Hunter with the pumpkin that Emily carved for him. Of the three we got this was the smallest, or "baby" one. I carved mine a couple of days later. Here are all 3 on the front porch glowing away.



Deb came into town to celebrate Halloween with us. Here she is reading a book she brought for Hunter. Shortly after this it was time to get dressed up for Halloween. As mentioned before we had an eventful night before Halloween. So Emily and I didn't spend much time getting ready for Halloween. So Hunter was the only one with a costume. It's also the only one you care about. Hunter was a pretty cute little Monkey! You can't see the tail, but it's got a pretty cute little tail as well.







Yeah, no kidding. He is like the cutest kid of all time. I mean I was a really cute little kid, but Hunter is off the charts. C'mon, look at how cute he is, his tiny hands folded in front of him!



Here is Hunter Checking out the pumpkin Family. Emily's is on the top left, mine is top right and Hunter's is on the bottom. He can almost stand up holding onto stuff. I was too worried about the stability of the pumpkins to let him try it on his own. Plus, he'd already taken the fast way down the stairs on the Emily express the night before!

Fast forward, 1 week, to Emily's birthday. Nope, you ask her. We had a leisure day at home. Hunter rocked his "Junior Firefighter" onsie, matching Mom's FF t-shirt. I went out and got Emily some Blueberry donuts, her favorite, and some Dazbog Coffee, my favorite. We had a nice time together. Hunter also appeared to enjoy the coffee. Yes, the lid is on tight. No, he didn't spill any on himself. Which is probably better than Mom and Dad usually do.

We also decided to try Hunter on some solid foods. Emily is in charge of picking these foods out. We started him on some Sweet Potato first. You can decide for your self if he liked it or not from the picture. Here's another clue. We tried Avacado the next time.

Same results.


Today, Hunter is just over 6 months old and we took him to his 6 month check up. He is 16lbs, 6oz, and 26.25 inches tall. I won't call him long. Over 2 feet! He is in the 50% percentile generally and has a 17" head circumference. Helmets start around 18", so we are getting close! Here is Hunter's 6month picture. You can tell how much taller than Pooh Bear he is starting to get. And yes, he does love his Dad! Deb gave us, among other things, some fun bath toys to use with Hunter. Here is Emily squirting him with a little fishy. He was laughing right up till I took the picture. He's still chubby for sure, but we like him that way!





Developmentally Hunter is right on track. He can roll over on demand, his of course, in both directions. He has started sleeping and napping (difference being time of day) on his tummy sometimes. Made Mom and Dad a bit nervous at first be we are getting used to it. He can partially sit up on his own. But you have to get him started in a good direction first. He is babbling up a storm and is starting to form some consonant type sounds. One of them being "mmm". He's on the verge of saying "Mom"! He's got the leg part of crawling down, just needs to include the arm motion. He should be pulling himself up onto things and cruising around in the next few months. If you get an interesting stable object in front of him and get him set up he can stand on his own for a bit already. Just can't get himself there on his own.


Today was kind of a rough day for him. He got another round of shots. He did great but had one vaccine by mouth and 3 shots in his legs. He's doing great. It's snowing again for Hunter. This is the second round of snow we've had since he was born, second day in the hospital. He seems to like watching it. But, he's pretty observant of the things around him. That's all for now. One last parting shot of the little guy. Till next time.



Couple things, more pictures on the picasa album. If you aren't getting emails telling you it has updated and want them, let us know. Also, let me know if you wanna chat during the day. We have video capability, so let me know.

Catching Up

Hey All,

Sorry it has been sooo long since we have blogged. Seems like we have been super busy lately. I have picked up some contract work and it fills the small gaps of time I have had lately. One quick house keeping issue. I have a web album, Hunter 2, on Picasa. If you are interested in seeing that and you aren't getting the email updates let me know. There are more pictures but no descriptions there. They are also bigger and downloadable.

Emily, Hunter and I are doing well. I think I got through a bout of the flu and Emily may have a broken toe, but overall we are doing well. While I was sick we took Hunter to the pumpkin patch and carved pumpkins. I was out of it for a lot of it, but was there. We had a bit of excitement this weekend, while Deb was in town. The smoke detectors went off, for no apparent reason as the house was definitively not on fire, in the middle of the night. Emily took Hunter and Deb out front while I checked the house. On her way out, Emily twisted, and only sprained, her ankle and fell on her butt. She did a great job of making sure that Hunter was OK and well protected as she fell down. She came out of it fairly unscathed but might have a broken pinky toe. Other news for us we are mostly done having all the windows and sliding door in the house replaced, should be done by 11/11. Emily's birthday is coming up this weekend so there might be some pictures and stories from that, we'll see. OK, enough text. I know you just like the pictures and have probably already scrolled down to look at them and are just skimming the text now. So, here you go.

Some friends of ours posted some pictures of their little girl on a swing and we LOVED them. She looked so happy we couldn't believe we hadn't given Hunter this opportunity yet! So we took him out to a park over by Emily's office and let him swing. As you can see he is having a great time.

Emily was giving him a push and I think she was having as much fun as Hunter was, if not more.

I LOVE this picture. You can tell by the smile that he is having a great time. Kid has a great smile, it lights up his whole face. But if you look close you can see his little fingers on his right hand turning white. He's getting to enjoy that "roller coaster" type effect, the delicate balance between fear and fun. If we got him swinging too fast he didn't have quite as much fun.

Louisville Fire Department had a re-dedication of Station 1. Emily and Hunter came down to see the station and join in on the festivities. Hunter had a good time, but he was ready to leave, as you can tell, when Emily took him home. He's a trooper.

Emily had to dress Hunter up in his Ave's jersey that is too big for him. We were headed to BJ's brewery and pizza in Boulder for dinner to watch the Red Wings/Ave's game. I had been watching Hunter all day and had him dressed up pretty well, but Emily had to cover it all up.

Mostly cause this is what I had him in! It's about the cutest little Red Wings track suit and onsie you've ever seen. We were looking pretty sharp, but Emily wanted to cover it up.

The Red Wings/Aves issue will be a battle for some time to come. I have to admit, as much as I hate to see him in Ave's gear, seeing Emily and Hunter this happy and this cute is worth it.

You may have noticed that these pictures are a bit better than ones in the past. Well, special thanks to James Osborne for letting me borrow his Nikon D50 DSLR to take pictures for a bit. I've always wanted to know if a nicer camera would let me take better images and I think it did. Now I'm saving my duckets and holding out till Black Friday, for something of my own.

Like I said, many more images in the Picasa album, HERE.

Here is the second best picture from the Open House that I took. For more take a look at this Picasa Album.

Hunter goes in for his 6 month check up this week, might have new info and some stats after that. Thanks for reading!

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When we no longer look like Deer. (in headlights)

For now a quick picture.

Hey All,

      Few quick updates. Looks like the life of leisure Emily and I were living is almost over. Hunter rolled over from his back to his tummy yesterday. Barrel rolling may be his first mode of translation so we could be in for a work out from now on. He is also almost sitting up. If we put his colored stack of rings toy, that everyone had at one point in their life (probably a very early point), in front of him and get him started off balanced he can hang out that way for a little bit. He's getting bigger everyday. He even pulled himself from a slightly reclining position to a sitting one.

Also some stats from his 4 month visit:

Weight: 15lbs 3oz, 70%

Length: 25.25", 70%

Head: 16 1/4", 25%

     Well, sounds like at 70th percentile on the weight he's falling in line with Dad for sure. As well as the 25th percentile head. Some where around 18" on head circumference I'll be able to fit a helmet to him. So he and I will be highly mobile. The Gore-Tex onesie we have for him will come in handy this winter! I already have a trailer we found for free and we are working on getting him a jogging stroller. I'm far too familiar with the inside of these walls. How long till we stop measuring his height in length, to by the way? No body talks about being 5'9" long. S'pose he'll have to walk to at least stand for that. So I guess I'll stand for length for now. If anybody has any secrets on getting his head circumference to get bigger faster I'd love to hear them. Ok, so the part you guys come for the pictures. Here are a few more new ones. Enjoy.

Using the camera app and the built in camera on the lap top I grabbed a couple of pics of the two of us hanging out at home.

He especially loves to sit on my shoulders and look in the mirror!

The boys just hanging out, wondering what Dad is doing.

Uncle James holding Hunter.

Aunt Hillary holding the little one.

BANG!  POW!  Blast of cute right to your FACE!

When the Family was in town we went to  the Wild Life Sanctuary in Keenesburg, CO.  Hunter is totally distracted by the car driving by.  He'll be into the animals soon!

Welp!  Thats it for now.  Hope you all enjoyed the info and the pictures.  If there is something you especially liked or if there is something that you would like to see.  Let us know.  Hunter is growing fast so if there is an outfit you'd like pictures of him in or playing with something specific let us know, via the comments, and we can work on getting that taken care of.   Thanks.

Some videos

Hey All,

Just a quick update of some videos of Hunter being as cute as he can be. Hope you enjoy them.

4 Months Old!

Hey folks,

So Hunter is now 4 months old!

Here is Hunter with his Pooh Bear at 4 Months old. Almost as big as the bear.

Emily and I have been amazed that it's been over a whole year since we found out that Emily was pregnant. Yowsa! It's been a big year of firsts with many many more to come. But enough about us, cause I'm sure you don't care, and onto Hunter. Hunter is doing very well. He's got a bit of eczema plus the reflux so he gets a dose of Zantac, Hydrocortisone cream and diaper rash cream every morning and night. But he's happy as a pig in slop! He's started looking at things and reaching out to grab them intentionally. He is blowing raspberries, two types. The kind you make with your lips and the kind you make with your tongue. Which is quite timely because we have a large raspberry patch in the back yard that is producing berries, but I digress. He also has great head control and will twist that thing around like the kid in poltergeist so he can look at the TV when it's on. So we leave it off a lot. He has rolled from his tummy to his back several times now and likes to sleep on his side a lot. He can't quite roll onto his tummy, mostly because he won't get his arm out of the way! It's coming though. Ok, the pictures part!

We haven't cut his hair yet. Some times Mom gets a bit distracted during bath time! It was a mohawk but it was so long it curled over under it's own weight. We might have to use some Elmer's next time.

Look at that strong boy holding his head up. We have a sweet Tummy Time mat for him that he has out grown, he's longer than it is round!

As happy as Hunter looks here this plan did not last. He has good head control but pretty poor endurance on it. He lasted about 3 blocks of our walk and started grunting a bunch and stopped holding his head up. So I turned him around.

Here is the whole happy family just after Hunters's 4 month Birthday. I had a meeting for contract work so he wore a collared onesie!

Told ya he's as happy as a pig in slop!