New Photos of the Sprog

Today marks the end of Stephen's sixth month out of the womb. He's grown up quite a bit, even though he still fusses and whines and makes a ruckus about this or that or the other thing. I hope we're not spoiling him.

So...let's see. Recent pictures of my boy...

This would be a photo from last Sunday, which would've been the 19th. Stephen is all geared up and in his car seat, ready to go to grandma's house. I've got a base for this particular seat in my car, right next to the driver's seat.

When he rides in his mother's car, Stephen is stuck in the back seat (she's got a passenger-side air bag that prohibits us from putting him up front). He really likes to watch me drive. I guess it's more interesting than looking at my wife's rear window.

Tummy time! Given the rhomboid shape of his noggin, we are forcing the child to spend as much time on his belly as possible. Shortly after taking him to the cranium clinic, he started sleeping on his side. We had nothing to do with it, he just decided that it was comfortable.

Tummy time (redux)! This picture makes him look somewhat pensive, don't you think? He can't crawl...yet. We fear the day that he figures that particular feat out. He can wiggle and "inch" along like a little pale worm, grunting the whole time.

Of course, Halloween is next month. That's his mother's favorite holiday. We have more Halloween decorations than we have Christmas decorations. I plan to do an entire entry on them once she's got them out. The general rule is that we put them out only after October 1st, but she's been wanting to put them out since it started feeling like fall again.

This isn't a picture of the baby, but it is a picture of our newest Halloween decoration. Stephen and I picked it up at Chez Target, while we were shopping for formula and other kinds of baby food. I'd never seen a Halloween nutcracker before, and it's just tacky enough that I figured my wife would love it.