Category: Home Movies

Because nothing’s cuter than watching someone else’s baby do the cute baby “talk” thing.

Humor me.

The context of this video … we’re in our living room. My parents, grandparents and sister’s family are all there and we’re watching home movies – as in, when I was little.

In other words – YAWN.

So, to keep myself from bashing my brains out and thereby depriving my son of an awesome mommy, I started video taping Dude. My mom is just over my shoulder talking to him as well, only she’s in the way and I think my grandpa (?) tells her to move.

HA!

This was taped in July, I think.

And is anyone else wondering if the buckles on the boy’s very cute overalls (you must admit they’re pretty awesome), are pinching his tender skin?

How many MOMS thought that very thing?

Yep, thought so.

Now, how many DADS?

Yep, thought so.

Fundamental difference between moms / dads. THESE are the kinds of things moms think about, guys.

(*Side note: I was at the dentist’s office yesterday and the dental assistant in charge of vacuuming spittle out of my mouth had just dropped her kindergarten-aged son at school. We were talking about the first-day jitters and she said she was thinking about what she was going to pack him for lunch the night before and decided on Lunchables. Only, she wasn’t sure if her son could open a package of Lunchables on his own, so they had a “dry run,” i.e. she had her son open a package.

I had to laugh at that. I did the same thing, only with Sunny D bottles.

My dentist, who’s a man, laughed and said, “I never would have thought of doing that.”

Exactly, dude, exactly. That’s why moms ROCK. 😀 )

This was the first time we put Dude into a Johnny Jump Up.

I apologize for the maniacal laughter, I was delirious from fatigue. Also? His expression of like, “what do I DO with this thing??” just cracked me up. HA!

Dude soon picked up on the concept behind the Johnny Jump Up (I have a video of that for later, of course) and I have to say, this Johnny Jump Up SAVED my sanity. Both of my boys loved this thing and spent hours in it.

I’d recommend it for new parents.

P.S. The cord hanging down by his foot is from this.

This is another one of those “nothing is happening” videos that I just couldn’t resist posting. I told you I spent HOURS taping my kids just breathing. I loved to watch their facial expressions whenever we played. They were so eager for my attention, open and waiting for new experiences and the innocence in their eyes just took my breath away.

I’m so very grateful that we were able to work it out so that I could stay home with them. I wouldn’t trade these memories for anything.

What can I say, we were young parents, we were easily amused.

Or severely sleep deprived.

Probably both.

I could just nom on those chunky baby legs.

Kevin was playing around with the different functions on the video camera in this video.

We had just gotten back from an Easter celebration with Kevin’s family and Dude was completely wiped out.

And yes, I used to (past tense) dress us up for Easter even though we didn’t go to a church service or anything.

Wow. My hair is big.

Here’s a shot of that monitor belt I was telling ya’ll about.

(Dude was eight weeks early and had to wear a monitor when he came home because his nervous system wasn’t mature enough to keep reminding him to breathe, so the monitor would warn me when he stopped breathing and I would have to stimulate him to start him breathing again).

Most of the time, the alarms were false, but there was one time it went off in the middle of the night and I rushed into his room, turned on the light (which was usually enough for him to start breathing again), and had to actually shake him a bit to make him start breathing again.

I shaved off several years of my life that night.

At any rate, it was a bitter/sweet moment when he no longer had to wear the belt. On the one hand. MAJOR inconvenience, but on the other, assurance that he was breathing. I had many sleepless nights checking up on him shortly after he stopped wearing the belt.

Also – MAJOR cuteness in this video. I love the way he’s responding to me.

And I apologize for his full diaper. HA!

This video is precious to me because Dude is “interacting” with his great grandparents (my mom is holding him).

My grandmother passed away some months ago so I thought my parents would like to see this.

We were celebrating my grandparents’ 50th wedding anniversary.