A year ago last night is when we shared the news that Adam was on his way (of course didn’t know that he was a he, much less that he was an Adam at the time).  I can’t believe that he’s just a few days away from being 5 months old!

We took Adam to see Santa and while we couldn’t get him to smile, he didn’t cry either.  In my book that’s a success.  I am pretty sure that’s the best mall Santa I’ve ever seen.  His beard was even real!

And of course I’m way behind again with the pictures – posting pictures of Christmas before Thanksgiving (to be honest though we did go see Santa on November 23rd – so chronologically I am okay even if I’m off seasonally).   Maybe I’ll make a New Year’s Resolution to make a new post at least once week.  Or maybe I should make a resolution not to, and then I will either follow through with it by continuing to slack off, or I’ll break it and write more – either way someone will win.

Here are some pictures from our trip to Disney World last month for my birthday.  It was the little dude’s first visit and so they gave him a pin.  I was convinced it would pop open and stab him though, so I just set it on him for this picture and then stuck it on his stroller.

I also got a pin because it was my birthday.  I was going to wear it (I am not afraid of pins)  but the first time I held Adam with it on  he ended up with black marker on his face from where they wrote my name – so I took it off.  I did put it back on later after dropping chocolate ice cream on my shirt.  The ink was dry and it hid the stain nicely.

I wanted to get a set of mouse ears for Adam to commemorate his first trip to the Magic Kingdom.  They had ears in all different sizes, including infant sized ones – perfect right?  Not so much.

Yeah, those were the “infant” ears.  As you can see they were a bit big for Adam (I bet they would have fit Dave.  Dave has a really small melon).  So we just took his picture in them and then returned them to the shelf.  We did get a couple of cute pictures of Adam with the ears though (and saved about $14).

The first character we saw was Pluto.  So we got in line right away to get Adam’s picture taken with him.  This is basically what we did all day – stand in line and get photos taken with the characters.   We got tons of adorable pictures.  They will be perfect when he’s older and wants to go back (See Adam, you already met Mickey! What do you mean you don’t remember?).

He wasn’t too sure how he felt about this kiss from Pluto.  I can’t believe these pictures are only from a month ago.  Adam was so little!! That kid just keeps getting bigger and bigger.  I’m going to stop feeding him.

Well – that’s not too bad.  I got through the start of Disney and our first character meeting.  Adam is starting to wake up from his nap though, so I’ll have to continue this later.

I don’t think I mentioned that on our way to Florida last month we stopped in Hilton Head for a couple of days.  If we had it to do over again I don’t know if we would make the same choice.  I think we’d have been better off getting to Florida sooner and spending more time there – live and learn though right?

While we were in Hilton Head we visited their lighthouse.  It was on the smallish is side, but that’s okay. I don’t think either of us was too interested in lugging Adam up hundreds of stairs.

This is the only picture you get from our trip to Hilton Head.  We tried to take some pictures on the beach one evening, but our camera was all foggy (from going from the air conditioned hotel room to the super hot and humid outside).  So all of our pictures look like this:

Okay, so I lied.  You get two pictures from Hilton Head.  This was Adam’s first time at the ocean and it’s too cute not to post – foggy or not.

I guess I don’t have to have long posts every time I write here.  I’m sure most people would be happy with just an Adam picture.  So here you go:

After my dad and Dave got done raking leaves we had a nice pile to stick Adam in.  He was sitting in his bumbo (which is bright blue) and we just covered it in leaves.  He didn’t fuss at all and was actually pretty content grabbing the leaves and trying to stuff them in his mouth.

One of the things I knew I wanted to do this Halloween was carve out a pumpkin, put Adam in it, and take pictures.  So while we were in New York Dave went and picked up a great one for the bargain price of $5 (he also got me a Tim Horton’s breakfast sandwich – mmmmm – I love those things and we don’t have them here – which is probably a good thing).

Dave cut the top off and removed the guts (I hate that part) and then we made sure our son will have nightmares of gourds for the next several years.  He was okay at first…

But it didn’t take long for him to realize that he really, really didn’t like it.

I can’t say I blame him – it was cold and slimy. He had no problems voicing his displeasure to the whole street.

And just so you don’t think we are totally terrible parents – he was dressed from the waist down.  And immediately after we were done with the pictures we took him in to a nice warm bath.

We’re not completely evil.

Honest.

I’ll post more on this later and lots of adorable pictures of Adam too (are there any other kind??), but for now I just wanted to say that I had an absolutely fantastic birthday with my boys at Disney World.

Oh…and I’m not thirty, I’m twenty-ten.  🙂

Seriously, it’s like I turned my back for a second and this kid decided it was okay to go and get huge. I do not approve.

The worst part is that he doesn’t show any signs of stopping this behavior.

This is what I woke up to this morning.  He’s such a happy little guy!  Seriously – this kid just gets cuter every day and it’s a good thing too – it counterbalances him spitting up on me 4 times before 10 am.

We took Adam to a pumpkin patch today.  Obviously this was more for our benefit than his – we could have taken him and the camera to the produce section of our grocery store and he’d never have known the difference. It was a neat place though.  I’m sure if he’d been a couple years older he’d have had a lot of fun, he could have gotten some play time in – instead of just having his mean parents set up ridiculous poses and laugh at him.

I did take him inside the engine of this wooden train.  It was a pain to get in (literally).  I’m pretty sure it’s not meant for anyone over four feet tall.  The bruise on my sore right knee is proof.

And Dave showed him the sheep (plural), goats, and cow (singular).

Then we started the torture by camera portion of our visit. The little dude was on the fence as far as how he felt about this – ha ha – on the fence.  I crack myself up.

Sticking the poor kid in this planter was all his daddy’s idea. I would never do such a thing to him! He’s first in line to care for me in my old age – plus someone had to hold the camera.

Doesn’t it look like he just hopped out of Super Mario Brothers 3? He’s way cuter than that mustached plumber though.

Next we tried getting a nice picture of him with a pumpkin – you know, the whole reason we were there? Having him lean on the pumpkin worked out okay for a couple of minutes.  This kid is a squirmer though and so it wasn’t long before he fell off to the side.

So then we tried to prop him up against this cornstalk.  I thought it would be a nice picture.  Adam disagreed….loudly.

I did get a good photo though – thanks to Dave for setting up the pumpkins. We had him wedged in there pretty securely to keep him from tipping over in any direction.

The place we went to also had a hayride and a cornfield maze.  We passed on the hayride but did spend a little time in the maze. I tried telling Adam if he built it, they would come – but he just look at me like I was crazy. I get that look from him a lot – I can’t wait until we hit the teenage years.

We did get a nice picture of the three of us too – on the first try even.   Of course by this point Adam had lost interest in the pumpkin patch and his camera happy parents and decided a nap was a better way to spend his time.

And for the record, we didn’t end up getting a pumpkin.  So I guess we failed as far as that mission is concerned.  Oh well – there’s always the produce section…

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