ALMOST Friday....

Ugh-The weekend can't come soon enough..I am pooped..I LOVE being home with Kyan, don;t get me wrong...but taking care of a baby is WORK, and so with working from home as an Executive Assistant, it's like working TWO jobs...And I am exhausted....Anyway, here are 2 new pics of the little guy....

This is Kyan sleeping like...a baby...How appropriate...


And this is one of him enjoying a book..It has black and white images in it-High contrast images are what they see best at this age...He LOVES the book-he gets mesmerized :-)

Recent Pics

This past weekend we went out Pumpkin picking...it was a GORGEOUS day and highly enjoyable. Kyan didn;t get that much out of the excursion, but Mom and Dad certainly enjoyed themselves!

Looking for the perfect pumpkin....

Kyan weatring his "Jack-O-Lantern" baseball cap (Thanks, Aunt Sarah!)

And here's one of us NOT in Jon's shadow :-)

Kyan and Daddy wearing their hats backwards :-)

Me and Ky holding hands

The Family Photo


And here are a couple random ones....
Ky in his Giant's Jersey from Me-Mom and Pop-Pop...(Don't worry, he has an Eagles one, too-even if they do SUCK this season)

Ky in the Oliver Twist type cap I bought him..he is not a big fan in this picture...


In Adult Land, Jon and I will be going out on an actual DATE this weekend (we have not been out without the baby since he was born nearly 3 months ago)...Grammy Pammy and GrandPop are watching Kyan while Jon and I go to dinner and a movie-WOOHOO-I won't even have to stop eating my dinner to nurse or give him a bottle-And we won't have to draw straws to see who gets to do the next diaper change! Oh, the luxury! Last time we went to go see a movie, Ky was about 2.5 weeks old, and we went to a matinee of the "The Simpson's Movie", and I go to see about 3/4 of it before the baby started fussing, so I walked out of the theater. So this time, I will get to see a WHOLE movie....YAY!!

In the world of baby milestones, Kyan is now holding his head up really well-we try to make sure to give him belly time each day. He is smiling and laughing a lot, particularly after a really good poop. He also has developed a really good grasp-cause' he has ripped several fistfuls of my hair out.

So that is what is new in Beckyland.....

Kyan's outfit for today

I dressed Kyan all cute because he and Jon are going to go and walk around the mall today while I get a pedicure-I haven't had a real pedicure since I was 30 weeks pregnant! I am SO looking forward to this, while simultaneously feeling bad for whoever will have to work on my feet......

A varietry of topics...

Here is some video fo Kyan talking-as yu will see, we cover a number of topics, from food, to housing, as well as politics....


And here are some recent pics:

Crazy Hair

If someone's future career could be based on his hair, I would have to guess that Kyan is either destined to be like Albert Einstein, Art Garfunkel, possibly Andy Warhol-Or maybe Don King. And here is video of Jon and I making asses out of ourselves to get Ky's attention while he ignores us completely....I LOVE being a parent.

For your daily dose of all things Kyan:


Things are well (as well as they can be when you hate, loathe, and abominate your job). Ky continues to be a pooping machine-Thank goodness we do cloth at least SOME of the time, cause this kid fills enough diapers to fill a landfill on his very own. He's starting to "respond" when we talk to him-with coos and shrieks of course, but it's fun that the conversations aren't so one-sided anymore.

As for me, not much to report. Working on losing my fat ass, slowly but surely. Hoping to win the lottery. Halloween is coming up....Kyan will be a Lobster, Thanks to my cousin Julia lending me the costume she used on her now 2 year old daughter.

I am also racking my brain to try and figure out what to get Jon for our wedding Anniversary (our 3rd). He is SO hard to buy for-I'd LOVE to take him away for a weekend, but we don't hve the money for that. If you have any ideas, feel free to post them under "comments", cause I got nuthin'.

And, Oh, joy of joys, I will be cooking Thanksgiving this year. With a 4 month old...JUST what I feel like doing. This came about as: "Oh, I'll order the turkey and drop it off at your house the day before. And I'll bring pie." Perhaps I'll put laxatives in the stuffing so that no one stays too long.....

I'm so crafty.....

As the title of this post implies, I was feeling a bit crafty today. I often use a Hotsling, which is a pouch sling made to carry a baby around in. Ky is generally pretty happy in his sling, and they are a more attractive alternative to a plain old Baby Bjorn. Well, I had some pretty blue Chinese silk brocade fabric laying around, and thought it would be nice to have another sling in a different fabric. So I used my Hotsling as a template, and VOILA!......

Here is the Hotsling I have and used as my template:


Front/side view:



Close up of the fabric: