Bath Time!

Three months in, we finally have a bath time routine that seems to be tear-free. We sponge bathe Julian on his giant turtle sponge, then transfer him to his "bucket" for a soak and hair wash.

From Bath time in a bucket

The bucket was an impulse purchase by 2 new parents who are unnerved by the thought of getting the kid in a tub. It's some crazy European-patented design... but truth be told, it's an overpriced mop bucket. Julian looks cute in it though!

From Bath time in a bucket

Many thanks to Pop-Pop who photographed bath time (which still takes 4 adult hands, so we needed visitors to help us document it!)

From Bath time in a bucket

All done, all clean!

A Smiley Boy

Julian has been smiling more and more. Frankly, he's becoming an easy audience... he smiles at pictures, the mobile on his swing, the elephants on his Pack N Play, and anything silly.

From Julian's Smiles

Family visit

Here are a few photos from the end of June, when Uncle Doug, Aunt Katie, and cousins Kyra and Daria came for a visit on their way back from Disneyworld. Julian entertained everyone with his smiling and wiggling, and we did some other fun activities like cookie-baking and a quick museum visit. Julian definitely has Uncle Doug's expressive face and night-owl gene.

From Ohio Cousins

From Ohio Cousins

Julian inspires the urge to snuggle!

From Ohio Cousins

From Ohio Cousins

From Ohio Cousins

Cousin Love

Another post from our shore trip over the 4th of July!   This is priceless:  instead of a hug, Julian greeted his cousin Flora by offering up his closed fist for her sucking pleasure. 

From Shore trip

Flora was born in January, and right now seems like such a big kid compared to Julian!   He liked eyeing her up and watching her faces and tricks.

From Shore trip

Emmanuelle and Leo check out their cousin Julian for the first time:

From Shore trip

Glo Glo keeps it amazingly together while attending to two grandbabies!

From Shore trip

Four babies!

We hosted our first "play date" at our house yesterday. Julian was very nice about sharing his play gym. On the far right is little Rebecca, Julian's first friend in the world! We met Rebecca and her Mommy and Daddy at the hospital (Rebecca was born one day after Julian), and it turned out they live just a couple blocks from us.

My shore debut

Check out some fun pictures from my shore trip! I looove to look at people, as you can see.

From Shore trip

From Shore trip

From Shore trip

Hello from the Boardwalk!

In the old days, they sent postcards... but we modern babies do blogging instead. Consider this the first postcard from my first official vacation at the Jersey shore - hello from the Boardwalk!

From Boardwalk Baby

This is Mommy's favorite pizza place on the whole earth. I hope to return when I have teeth, because it sure did smell deeeelicious!

From Mommy's Favorite Pizza

At the end of a full evening, I headed home with my new friend, Mr. Taffy.

From Mr. Taffy

Family at the Shore

I took my first long car trip on the 4th of July weekend to the Jersey shore. My Glo Glo and Zayda have a house in Longport, NJ with a gorgeous bay view and a bassinet that I slept very soundly in. Best of all, I met lots of new people! My Aunt Cara, Uncle Francois, and cousins Emmanuelle, Leo and Flora were all at the shore house too (cousin Justin was at hockey camp.) I also met lots of other cousins and babies in the Berman family, and all the Bar Davids... plus friends galore. It turns out I am pretty popular! This is the annual family photo in front of the shore house, and the first one with ME in it!

From Happy 4th of July

After the babies went to bed, the adults dined on lobster for Aunt Cara's birthday. Daddy had to pull out the lobster meat for Mommy (even though she's an adult, Mommy has trouble feeding herself when it comes to lobster!)

From Shore trip