Flower Power

I think my Aunt Tammy tricked me by filling this daisy with tryptophine or something of the sort because it made me so sleepy that I decided to take a 2 hour afternoon nap- so unlike me! My momma was so pleased, she got the camera to capture the moment. Thank you so much Aunt Tam for the adorable outfit and the 2 hours of free time!

Even though I hate naps, I look pretty cute when I'm sleepin'!

Headstrong

Here I am holdin' up my head! Of course, who wouldn't to get a glimpse of that beautiful baby in the mirror? Oh, and you can also see that my love affair with the pineapple man continues...dad doesn't seem too threatened by this particular gentleman caller...I'm breaking him in slowly ;-)

Hands

Did you know that these fabulous little attachments can hold things? They are amazing- I am so glad I finally found them!

8 week update

A little late, but here I am at 8 weeks! I have been keeping my mom extremely busy, hence the lack of blog posts. I went for my vaccinations on Monday and did surprisingly well. I cried at the moment of impact, but by the time we reached the check-out counter, I had decided there are worse things in life. My parents kept me pumped up on Tylenol for the rest of the day, and all in all it was not as bad as we had all imagined. We also got new stats this week: 10lbs 12oz and 22 inches. That puts me in the 55th percentile for weight and the 40th for height. My dad says that makes me short and fat...it's a good thing that mom already explained to me how we just have to ignore him from time to time ;-)

I have decided not only that these upper appendages do belong to me, but that they are simply DELICIOUS! To my bag of tricks I have added sucking on my hands (loudly and often), drooling (if you look close you can see how wet my face is), tiny bubbles (I make these particularly when I'm hungry), cooing and other noises (even the mean ones are a huge improvement from sheer screams), gurgling and snorting. Yes, snorting. I don't know where I get this...both of my parents swear they don't do it, but when I get upset and cry, it'll often be accompanied by a snort or two.

What else? I can also hold my head up at a 90 degree angle when on my belly. I have not yet mastered the roll-over (although neither has my brother Mulligan and he is way older than me) but we don't think it will be long. Just yesterday I entertained myself on my activity mat for about 20 minutes, which was a huge bonus for mom since I have completely given up my afternoon nap, and all in all at 8 weeks and counting I am a happy, healthy baby!

Enough about me...

My trip to NY was, of course, to celebrate my Aunt Quinny and Uncle Dave's wedding! We can't help but put a few shots of the big day up for everyone to see. It was an amazing day!! Congratulations again Aunt Quinn and (now legitimate) Uncle Dave!

New friends

Let's see...I met so many new people on my trip to Aunt Quinny's wedding. I met many more new friends than what my daddy took pictures of, but I will start posting what we've got here, and just add as I go...

I will start chronologically...at least as far as the trip went. Zara picked us up at BWI and took me directly to meet my Grandmimi...

With my Grandmimi was my Tia Tiff. They spent Friday night oogling and googling over me!

Come Saturday morning, we headed to Dover where I met my Aunt Quinn and soon to be Uncle Dave!

And, what is a trip to Dover without hitting some corn fields and riding on tractors??...that's where the Wizotsky's come in! We ran over Saturday morning to meet Aunt Sarah and Uncle Josh!

Later that day as we prepared to caravan to upstate New York I met my Grammy...

My uncle Don and Tedd (not pictured).

I met a few people in between, but later that week I finally met my Grandma Miller...

and none other than my name-sake, Grandpa -Blaine- Miller! Grandpa took good care of me- I am so proud to be named after him!

And last, but NEVER least, here I am with my Aunt Patti! My Aunt Patti, Barbie and Nancy fought for me but apparently Aunt Patti won...the camera doesn't lie, folks! Most everyone got a chance to hold me even though daddy didn't capture it all on film. I had such a wonderful time meeting all my family and friends and can't wait to see everyone again at Christmas!

7 weeks...

Well, we missed our 6 week update, but...I had very important business to attend to...my Aunt Quinny got married this past week so we've been out of town and too busy to be bloggin'. None the less, I want to update you on some of the things I have done in the past two weeks...let's start with my first airplane ride!

Come on now...you don't think I screamed the whole way, do you?

I was an angel! I ate on the way up, slept the duration of the flight and ate again on the way down. It is good we live just far enough away for a perfect 3 hour stretch between take-off and landing ;-)

I was a bit scared at first, but daddy kept me safe and we made it uneventfully to BWI in no time!