I love this pix effect. You will hardly ever find a pix of me without my glasses off. Ethan's dad says thats what he prefers, but I have been wearing glasses forever and am not comfortable with contacts.
Again, we have here the "old man serious" face (referred to in the future as the OMS face!). Gotta love acronyms!
I am the luckiest person in the world to be able to be with my baby and watch him grow each day. How did I get so lucky???  

We hardly ever get our pix taken together. With dad at work most of the time and the older kids at school, its mainly me taking pix of Ethan while we go about our day. I believe Mikey took this pix...Ethan has his "old man serious" face on. Even though I love his smiles and laughs, this face pulls at my mama-strings too.
Of course, he still hasn't gotten to like the camera, which is why we have more "old man serious" faces than laughs and giggles. He does laugh and giggle alot, especially with dad when he comes home from work. Sometimes he will work himself up into a laughing fit and go on and on so hard that his body shakes (I was referring to Ethan, but dad does that too). :)
 

He really does love his feet!!! Using cloth diapers is the best ever...aren't those some cute little diapers??? AND we are saving the environment! You would not believe how inexpensive cloth diapers are and how much money we save! We love them!  

I just cant resist posting a pix of my sleeping baby! Babies are so angelic when they are asleep. Of course, this one is all the time but he is especially beautiful when he sleeps.  

is that not the cutest face ever? Im going to have to get him more baby blue clothes. The blue really does bring out his big blue eyes.  

what a cute pumpkin. he really is becoming so strong...holding his head up very well and he is very observant of everything. See Dad's dimpled chin??? I just can't get over that and love to look at it.  

i have not been able to post in the last week or so and its been killing me!!! Following are some pix from mid to the end of April. Aren't brothers so cute??? This one has Ethan very curious about Mikey's nose! how cute is that??? Ethan is looking more and more like his father each day with the dimpled chin.  

Ethan's first pix in his carseat (yeh, we dont' take too many pix when we go out! lol!)
 

Our Maya Wrap, which we are probably going to sell because i just can't get the hang of a ring sling!! But I LOVE wearing my baby! 

Aren't they gorgeous??? Mikey still has a hard time getting to sleep, so on weekends and non-school weekends, he will usually fall asleep in our bed. Lately the baby has been going to sleep around the same time (or EARLIER). yeh us! I just couldn't help but take pix of this last night. Please excuse the laundry basket in the background...hey, at least its clean! And aren't there more important things than folding laundry (like taking pix of my babies).  

another pix for the folds!! 

i cropped this photo to protect my intact little boy from pervs, but wanted to show everyone the folds on this kids legs!!! can you believe this? and they claim that mamas milk isn't fattening enough??? yeh, right! he's huge! in 6-9 month clothes now and he's only 3 months old! And as far as being intact, that simply means we have not circumcized him (i.e., we do not participate in male genital mutalation). If you want to learn more about WHY we chose not to do this, you can learn more here. http://www.mothering.com/articles/new_baby/circumcision/against-circumcision.html 

This guy thinks he's a rapper! He SOOO tries to come across so tough! But he's holding a passover/easter basket (yes, i find ways to justify this in my head...stay off my back!). The ONLY thing he was interested in was whether there was cash in that there basket!
At least the younger son is still interested in cheap toys and candy! :)
 

My Three Sons! I finally got them all together in one place! Not an easy task! Especially with a teenager who prefers to be on the go all the time! From left to right, Mikey (8), Ethan (3 months) and McClaine (aka "Max") 15! They are cute, but dangerous! :)
 

i know i posted a similar pix belong, but dad just named the favorite toy rabbit...His name is Harey. get it? sorry..i know its corney but i just had to post this so I wouldn't forget it!!! So, Harey is Ethan's favorite toy. We are wondering how old Ethan will be when he "gets" the joke. And of course the rabbit is 100% organic!!! :) So Ethan can chew away with no problems!
Im going to try to get Ethan out of the house and take some pix soon so that not all his pix are in my bedroom or the family room. Time to branch out a bit. We are planning to go on a trip to Stoneyfield Yogurt next week with some area AP moms, so hopefully some of them will take some pix of him for me. I would esp. like to show off the Mai Tai he gets carried in all the time. DH is just not a camera person when it comes to taking all these pix!! I guess I do take a lot but hey, this is my LAST baby!  

brothers can be so cruel!!!! i guess there isn't much else a 15 year old really wants to do to his 3 month old brother, though. oh well... I hope Ethan forgives him for this!  

he does look blissed out on mamas milk doesnt he? E nurses all day and night and really enjoys his food! And it shows..its over 15 lbs. now at 3 months! and its all GOOD milk, not the artificial milk made by industry. He has been very healthy due to breastfeeding and is growing by leaps and bounds! :) Im so proud of him! He is getting so big and so strong! I can't say enough good things about breastfeeding!!  

oldest son Max with the baby, Ethan! how cute huh???  

Mikey turned 8 April 2, 2006!!! OMG! I have one son 15 nearly 16 and now one 8!!! He is such a Red Sox fan and of course he did get things that were baseball oriented (some Red Sox bendy people, a Red Sox tshirt, Red Sox paraphanalia, and a baseball organizer) but my proudest moment was when I gave him money to go to Toys R Us and get whatever he wanted. He picked up some wooden food for his kitchen set, a stroller for his 20 inch boy doll, and some Little Tykes kitchen dishes, including a blender, etc. (I know, its plastic, but they are well made). I was proud of him spending his money on things that I would have bought him and things that encourage him to be creative and imaginative. Some people think that after a young age, young boys only want cars and stuff but thats just not true. Mikey did a great job allocating his funds for the purchases he made...and spent a lot of time in contemplation. He never considered cars or electrical stuff in his equation. He did get a pack of baseball pendants to hang on his wall but he's a baseball fanatic! I will have to post a pix of his room later! Im so proud of my little guy.  

i LOVE this pix! he looks so inquisitive!!!  

tummy time!!!  

isnt that an adorable laugh??? its so rare to get one from him once he sees the camera!!!  

Little frog man with a bunny! Isn't he just adorable???  

2 of my little boys...got this idea for a pix from another MDC (mothering.com) mama. Great idea to take an arial shot and it came out great! Ethan is playing with his organic cotton Minoma baby from Under The Nile! yummy! Mikey's teeth are finally coming in! So he won't be toothless anymore.  

Sleeping babies always look like such cute angels, don't they? This beautiful, peaceful face appeared shortly after nursing on mama's milk. :)
what more thanks can a babe provide his mother?