So...um....hi.

First, in order to silence the inevitable:

Note handknit sweater.  Also note drooly-mouth indicative of teething babies and his favorite chew-toy on the floor at his feet.  He's covering them as he hams it up for this pic, but there are two lower teeth and one upper, and we are now working on tooth #4.  He hit the 9-month mark this past weekend, and he's become a champion crawler, a speed-cruiser, and I swear, he'll be walking any day now - a fact which is both adorable and more than a little scary.  He's also getting into everything, loves taking stuff apart (did I mention his Dad's an engineer?) and is just generally being a blast.  There's still not a lot of sleep going on here (see above "Teething"), but as long as his Mr ODJ and I are smart about going to bed on time (um.  9pm. B goes to bed at 8pm. I'm trying not to dwell on how there's not a spare moment of time in my day most days b/c I have to go to bed so f*^king early.), our ongoing set up of splitting the night for wakeups works pretty well to keep us at least functional.  Most days.  And then there are the mornings, like this morning, when we all wake up feeling like this:

Yup.  He fell asleep in his jumper while Mr. ODJ showered.  I'm told that he stayed like this for about half an hour and then woke up and just went on back to jumping like nothing happened.  So damned cute. Little dude luuurves his jumper.  He would jump in it forever if we let him, but we save it as a special morning treat so that we can get ready with certain measure of peace.   Please, for the love of cashmere, do not write to me about the exposed power cords, nail heads and splinters you can see in this photo.  I know.  It's a disaster-in-waiting in the unrenovated portion of the house, hence the jumper instead of the free-wheeling crawl and cruise-fest that B would probably love to have for those 20 mins a day that we like to brush our teeth and make ourselves presentable for our coworkers.  We're working on it.  More specifically, the contractors are working on it.  Well, they WILL BE working on it starting Monday. Wheeeeeeee.

More later.  Really, really must work now, before anyone catches me at this.

Comments

[Kathy]

He is PRECIOUS. So so cute! And you are smart to ration the jumper. Will come in handy when he is older and you need to ration out tv/computer time.

[elisa]

When I saw that you had new pictures up on flickr, I thought "yay! new pictures!" and then, a little while later, I realized that since you likely do not have a lot of free time, new pictures probably also meant a new post and so YAY! Pictures AND a post! Yay!

Hi! Miss you! Love you guys! Hi!

And I can't believe there will be contractors in your house. I'm all a-flutter just thinking about it.

[Chris]

Yikes! When did he get so BIG?! :)

[Carole]

Look how big he is! I love that you posted today.

[Danielle]

I can't believe that this is the same boy as the tiny little infant I held at the Yarn Harlot reading! And, ummm, if only I could fall asleep in my jumper, I'd be a happy camper too.

[Bookish Wendy]

Need. More. Pictures.

I can't believe how big he's gotten!!!

[Wanda]

Wow, I was thinking that he was older than he really was. He's so big! And extremely handsome of course too.

[sarah b.]

Our little one LOVES his jumper, too, and I have a very similar picture. :-) He is super cute!