Birthday Greetings!

It's my mom's birthday today and since I got a little distracted last week, I've decided to make a blog entry in her honor. Of course as a grandma, I'm sure all she wants to see are pictures of her cute little grandson. So here it goes. In this picture, MVP was 9 days old. I won't tell you how old my mom was. ;-)In keeping with the birthday theme, here's a picture of MVP at a birthday picnic we went to on Sunday. He's just shy of 3 months old here.

Here he is at 3 months old. He has become quite the little sleeper. Ever since he was about two months old, he has been sleeping in his crib and has been sleeping through the night. Lately he's been sleeping for about 10 hours or more at night. It's wonderful!! He's even pretty good about taking naps during the day to allow me to work. MVP loves to coo--and he often sounds like an owl. He's a very smiley guy and we're certainly blessed to have him in our family.

One last picture. When my friend, Anne, came out to visit on the weekend after MVP was born, she gave him a Mylar balloon. That same weekend, she and a visiting toddler were playing with it and it floated up to our ceiling in the living room and was there for a very long time. On Monday morning, when I went into Mark's room, I noticed that the balloon was in there hovering a few inches off the ground and I wondered if maybe Andy had put it in there the night before. I proceeded to wake, change and feed the MVP and while I was sitting with him in the living room, I looked up and noticed that the balloon mysteriously started floating into the living room from his bedroom. I guess when you're as cute as he is even balloons want to follow you around. Later on, I let him sit and watch the balloon as it hovered in front of him. I think he's the balloon whisperer.

Rubber Duckie

We have discovered that in addition to his changing pad, MVP also really likes bath time. He has discovered that when he moves around a lot, the water splashes and makes cool noises. He has not, however, discovered that HE is the one who occasionally splashes himself in the face. Every now and then he will splash real hard and then get an expression on his face that clearly reads, "Hey! Who did that?!?!" He also really liked moving around on the crinkly paper at the doctor's office. Here's a picture of him enjoying bath time. This was taken last week, so he's almost three months old here.