"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God, But only he who sees takes off his shoes, The rest sit 'round it and pluck blackberries."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh

Friday, February 10, 2012

My Crazy Photo Shoot

A few newborn photos.  S was a good sport and let me bug him for way too long.









Thursday, February 9, 2012

Alfalfa

Just add the pokey-up hair in the back and you'd have Alfalfa from the Little Rascals.



Of course, we think this one is cuter.

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Grandma's Oldest and Youngest

Samson Brim Nelson
11/26/1992


Spencer Harmon Wood
1/30/2012

Saturday, February 4, 2012

More Photos

Just photos today...

Instagram photos:





Coming home from the hospital:



Hanging out in his laundry basket (a boy needs some protection from the swooping of siblings):




Sleeping:







Aunt Penny's package at the hospital:


Snuggling in the hospital bed:


The bulbs bloom when the baby arrives:


Flowers from Grandma Paula and Grandpa Mark:



Wednesday, February 1, 2012

A Name

We have named baby... Spencer Harmon Wood.

I also put up all the posts I wrote before the baby was born.

Hair

Normally I cut GQ's hair:


And actually, I do an okay job.  I don't buzz his hair, I cut it.  And I've always liked it.  This last time though... it was a little cold outside when I was cutting and GQ didn't want to sit outside any longer.  So, we missed a few parts of his hair.

Okay, we missed a lots of parts of his hair.  And maybe I'll have to buzz it to get it back to normal again, but we get some really good hairstyles off of this little cut:


This, however, is my personal favorite:


Which is why we took the picture in Church.... shhhhhh.  GQ was most excited about his tie - which is only slightly pictured - but which he is obsessed with.  He notices nothing out of the ordinary about his hair.

(I'm thinking he looks like Kevin Bacon from "Footloose"?  What do you think?)

Squinkies

For Christmas, E and M received some squinkies.  GQ has been sorrowing every since.  Normally they let him play with "The Sea Witch" and that is it.  So, on one of our dates Justin and I looked to see if we could buy some $4 squinkies that were for boys.  No such luck.  They do have "boy squinkies" online, but they are more than $4.  Which is a bit too much for squinkies, since they get lost quite often anyway.

With that said, it suddenly occurred to me that I did have a box of old-school Polly Pocket sized Star Wars toys:


Which means that now Han Solo and Luke Skywalker play with Ariel....


And GQ has some great light-saber options.  Who needs squinkies?