Go Boy Go!

Could little Jamie be a future tour champion? Here he is doing a little stationary cycling. I think he needs to work a little on his cadence but other than that, good form all around (well except for that terrible posture).



He was actually sweating up a storm after his "workout".

Jamie's first camping trip (sort of)

Well the weather this weekend was outstanding. Which can mean only one thing! Camping season is upon us. We decided that we should set up the tent in the front yard and hang out outside this weekend, partly as a test to see what Jamie thought of the whole thing. He didn't seem to mind one bit. I napped out there with Jamie while Christine did laundry and Christine played with him while I did yard work. I think we spent the majority of the day Saturday with some of us in the tent just hanging out. We can't wait to do it again. (Maybe for real next time?)





Sunday we went for a nice long hike at Gunpowder Falls State Park. We didn't realize that it was going to be so hot. Temperatures were in the 80's. We tried out a new baby carrier backpack. Turns out Jamie was still a little small for it. He fell asleep and ended up rubbing his little nose raw on the front of the pack. Needless to say he was not a happy camper when he got back to the truck at day's end. He did really like hanging out by the river though. I think he really liked the noise of the rapids and the sparkle off the water.



One more: I'm not sure at this point who is winning the baldness competition.

Test!!!

This is a test of the Christine posting system. This is only a test. In the event of an actual Christine posting, her own words and thoughts would follow. Repeat, this is only a test.


Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

3 Months Old

Jamie turned three months old this last Thursday. I think we can officially ditch saying "He's X weeks old" now that he has a significant number of months under his belt. It always bugs me when people say that...

Here's a few pictures for you:

Yeah, the weather's been crazy. It's still pretty cold here. Here's Jamie all bundled up and ready to go:


Time for the Springtime Mama shearing. Christine decided that she was tired of Jamie spitting up in her hair so she cut it all off. So here she is all shorn.


She had about 1 foot of hair which she was kind enough to donate to "Locks of Love" for children with cancer.


Jamie still hasn't found thumb, but likes his fingers, meanwhile plots many things we don't know about yet.

Chemistry Lab.

My boss is out of town this week and I've been covering her classes. This week's lab involved photo-chemistry which is pretty cool stuff. I went down and went through the lab to make sure I knew what I was doing before the students had a crack at it. It was a real simple lab actually. Make a pinhole camera, take a picture, process the film. I ended up with what I thought were a couple of cool shots.

The camera directly exposes the film so there is no negative, this means that the picture comes out as a negative mirror image. Here's the first picture I took of my bike on the bike rack out back of the lab. The exposure time was around 90 seconds. I just set the camera on the ground and opened the shutter.



The picture is a little scratchy looking because I neglected to clean the scanner.

Now here's the same picture reversed and inverted with Photoshop. I think it looks pretty cool.



Now here's a random shot of some weird pipes out back of the building. I left this one as a negative for a cool lit-from-within effect.



Fun stuff. I think I enjoyed it more than the students did.

April Fools!

Or why the Easter Bunny wants to bust a cap in the Groundhog....

We've been having somewhat of a cold snap. Saturday morning we woke up to about 1/2" of snow. Nasty. Where's Spring? Under 1/2 of snow it seems:

Dogwoods:


Forsythias:


The new lawn chairs:


and dog with dandruff:

New Pictures at Last!

Well we finally took some new pictures of the boy. So here they are!

Jamie loves his little piggy Leon. Last night Jamie was upset for some reason so I gave him Leon. He grabbed Leon up and sort of cuddled him and calmed right back down. Sweetest thing ever.



Yes, Jamie's hair really is falling out. It's all perfectly normal. Oddly enough he's really starting to look a lot more like his father now. I guess it just took some male pattern baldness for us to figure out who he looks like!