[Nicolas] Cooker Baby

hi everyone. nicolas will be 3 months old in less than a week. as you can imagine, he's interacting more and more with us - making new sounds and smiling all the time. sure, he still cries and has fussy periods, but the fun times seem to be increasing. we're having a blast. hope you can meet him soon if you haven't already. we also added some new pics that we took this morning to flickr.

hey, nicolas is putting on some weight. check out this chubby leg: more new pics are in the flickr set .

i love being a dad. happy father's day everyone. new pics in the nicolas flickr set .

nicolas loves to hang out with his blue bunny in his bouncy seat. today i turned on some of uncle midnight's music for him and recorded the event. if you've got 3 minutes to kill and like watching babies dance a bit, check it out:

mary got this cool kangaroo sling the other day and nicolas and i tried it out for the first time today. he reminded me of a buddhist monk, meditating, once he stopped crying and got in. we took a nice walk with the cats up and down our street.

due to some fortunate timing, on our return trip home we were able to stop and have lunch with one of our best friends, jason berry, in valdosta, georgia. he bought us lunch and we caught up on what's been happening with him. we were really happy to introduce nicolas to him, and they seemed happy to meet each other as well. here's a little video clip from their time together:

we arrived in charleston later than we'd hoped last night and had to head out early today (but didn't get on the road until after 3). it was much too short of a visit with our cousins and their loved ones. we had such a good time seeing them, and were sad that we had such little time to spend there. we're not really on vacation here, so it was more of just a "stopping by on the way through" kind of thing. we promised to return and spend several days there soon. the night we arrived, nicolas got to meet and hang out with his 3 cousins - noah, eli, and jonah. he loved staring at their faces and they seemed to really dig him too. their home in west ashley had such a nice vibe to it - nicolas (who'd been screaming a good bit of the last 10 hours in the car) mellowed out great once we got inside and really just enjoyed himself there. alex made some delicious shrimp and grits for us, and Melissa bestowed more helpful parenting tips upon us, while taking care of her

hi everyone. sorry for the delay in posting. it's been a crazy week. nicolas' aunt jennifer came to visit last weekend while jeremy was in new orleans. we have some nice pics from her visit that we'll try to post in a few days. nicolas is interacting with us more each day - he's starting to smile back at us, which is pretty fun. he's been a bit fussy lately, so we haven't gotten much sleep, these past 2-3 days but we believe (and hope) it's just a temporary growth spurt. we're visiting cousins tomorrow and will update you from the road or when we get back. much love to you all until then.