Banana

One night we were feeling particularly wild, so Jude was allowed to feed himself his snack. Celebration ensues. 

Okay, now I'm adult. Give me the camera. 

The first bite was a real disappointment. 

His second idea, however, only furthers my claim that he's a genius. 

Hey, hey now. What do we have here?

So what? I'm eating a banana and it isn't a big deal. 

Blast from the Past

 Look at those two loving peeps. I can't even imagine what kind of havoc would occur if we even tried to do that today. Ack. 

Jude was such a mature guy. I guess this was before I gave up and just let him live all of his life in pajamas. 

 

Oh yeah, this is more like it. 

 

Snatch and chew. Marin was a bully from such a young age. 

 

At least they could always agree on one thing. Life is a little bit scary, all of the time.

Major Ham Sandwich

Sometimes a boy just needs to give all of his fans a little taste of the ham sandwich.  Here's lookin at you, ladies. 

What, you want a little more? Because I can do that for you. 

 

 

This is just a basic, little sample of ham. 

 

 

But this my friends is the honey baked ham of all hamming it up. The boy loves the camera, and you know that the camera loves him. 

 

Snow Nom Nom.

Due to privacy settings set in place by Robert, this is the best bath pic you are really going to get of Jude. Or I guess of Robert, but I think we can all agree that's probably for the best. 

One night I let Jude eat some cottage cheese with his hands. He liked it, sure. But what he liked the most? Discovering that wiping cottage cheese hands on black pants left a mark. In other news, I wore those cottage cheese pants after the incident more times than I care to share. Or care to remember. 

Cottage cheese is good, but this...this is the life. 

Nom nom. Who needs to go in the cold outdoors when you can literally have cups of fresh delicious snow delivered to you whenever you make this face? 

I don't know, I think it could use some sugar. 

But I'll give it a second try. 

Back Home

After a wonderful trip to sunny cali it was back home. On Jude's birthday, Gooma and Goompa came by and evidently fed him cake pops. How sweet!

Jude has graduated from his baby bath and actually now really enjoys a good shower, but for a while the bath served as an excellent little man's chair for him. 

Seriously dude, give me that. 

Yeah, he got the toy, so what? Would you test a man that looked like that? 

It feels good to be a gangsta

Babysitting.

Well, here it is. One night Jenaeth and I babysat for Marin. I put Jude to sleep and when I came out, all hell had broken loose. Jenaeth went to put a diaper on Marin (which did not happen) and "somehow" he got his hands in the diaper cream. 

This was something new to Marin, and altogether very exciting. 

After this, I took a video which I cannot upload because of peenie-weenie privacy laws, but let me tell you about it. Marin ran around with diaper cream on his hands and I told him "just don't touch things like the couch" to which he promptly responded by running over and touching the couch and subsequently throwing his whole peep sized, diaper creamed body upon Jenaeth's bed. Oh well, ever heard of karma? 

Oh yeah, then this happened. When we were cleaning up the diaper cream Marin was running from his room to the bath (which still had water from rinsing him of his own diaper cream) and dumping his non bath toys into the bath. 

Note the stuffed animal bear. 

Then we just let him survey his kingdom. 

I guess what we learned is that when Mom and Dad leave, Marin's in charge. 

Boys Will Be Boys

Before Marin got "hurt", we actually had a lot of fun babysitting him. He even did a few miles to get out his energy. I think this was before the "accident" but after the diaper cream "incident". 

Just a couple nudies on a couch. Look at those bellies, wowie zowie.

Action shot. Look at those chicken legs. Bawk. 

Then Jude broke a curtain shade. Whoops. 

Then this happened...

Quickly followed by this. 

A grand finale of this. 

And of course...this. 

Smiles

So it was during our California trip that Jude was really learning the command "smile". But all that hamming it up for the camera and smiling on command was getting Jude all the attention. NO THANK YOU. 

So once when I was talking pics of Jude smiling I turned to find Marin standing like this. Hamming indeed. 

Sometimes smiling is just painful. 

And sometimes it is tainted with mischief on the mind. 

And sometimes someone smells a gas. Just joking, it's just a smile. 

And sometimes it morphs into a growl. Or whatever. It's cute either way. 

Wait, how do you play? 

Ohhhh

Learning to Lounge

If his trip to California taught him anything, it taught Jude to do nothing. Thankfully, that is a skill I had always hoped that he would acquire so that we could do it together. 

But fancy that, it was his aunt Easten apparently that really brought out the lazy in him. Hey, rub my belly. 

The boys stayed well hydrated during their laziness by stealing each others water cups. I guess the water's always fresher in the other baby's backwash.  That's how that saying goes, right?

One time, Marin found the tampons. Jude decided he could take a break from snoozing to check out the game. See male audience? Real men are comfortable with tampons. 

Anyway, that game was fun but also? That game was tiring. I think we all can agree that Marcel the Shell said it best "Treats and snoozin. Snoozin and treats."

Well said.