Funniest. Baby Clothing. Ever.

Found this one and this one on Cafe Press....





And this one and this one on shopkitson.com...





Not to be outdone, HotTopic.com has some of the funniest and most outrageous baby stuff out there...

I know, I know....

Sorry for the lack of updating - I have been super super busy with freelance jobs (lots of spring 07 brides!), and we were away all weekend visiting Grandma & Grandpa Valentine, and I was super busy at work this week too, so the baby blog hasn't been updated as much as usual. But rest assured, I took lots and lots of pictures this weekend and a big post will be coming soon. Not right now of course, but soon.

Congratulations to my good friend Jill Tallents and her husband Ross, who just welcomed a baby girl to their family. Emerson Marie joins big brother Wyatt. You can check out the Tallents Family blog here. Jill was my first friend when we moved to Maryland in 1984. It's so great keeping in touch with her, even so far away, now that we are both parents. Seems like just yesterday we were playing with our Cabbage Patch Kids and My Little Pony...

In other baby news...

My good college friend Jolene Sodano and her husband Justin have two beautiful little boys, Matthew and Ryan. Jolene and Justin were looking forward to expanding their family, but Jolene REALLY REALLY wanted a baby GIRL. I mean REALLY. So they recently found out they were expecting again, and were very excited. Jolene, who told me about the blood gender test when I was pregnant with Jake, immediate ordered a gender blood test for herself. She waited patiently for the results, which were delayed because of the rolling power outages in California, and waited and waited and waited. She endured lots of emails from me saying - "I'm SURE it's a girl this time! I can feel it!" Well, the tests finally came back and said..... it's another boy. Jolene was... um, a little disappointed.

So then I got this email from Jolene today... "Hello Everyone, I just wanted to send a quick email to let everyone know that we did a 3D sonogram this afternoon and got confirmation that my gender test was WRONG!!! We are having a GIRL!!!! Yay, Yay, Yay....We are sooooo excited. I cried the whole time and looked like such a baby. I have already bought little Marissa Rose 14 baby outfits!!!! How crazy am I??? Just thought you all would like to know.....Thanks to all who prayed for this moment for us.....We'll see if we can send some shots soon, Jolene"

Congratualtions to the Sodano Family - I can't wait to meet this very anticipated baby girl! Jojo - good luck for a healthy and easy pregnancy!!! Sooo happy for you!

Baby Toupees

Inspired by Suri Cruise (who is cute, but has the most disturbing amount of baby hair I have ever seen), Jake has decided we should invest in a Baby Toupee. Thanks to the always-funny Chrissy who sent this crazy link to me. Too funny!

(Another) Doctor's Office Visit

He was sick again (stupid freakin daycare), with this horrible cough and congestion (he sounds like an old man trying to cough it up), and then we suspected he had an ear infection, but the doctor said he just had some build-up, so it might just be itchy. Jake plays with his ears a fair amount anyway.

He is 17 pounds, 13 1/2 oz. Not sure how tall he is - we will have to measure him ourselves. He is a beast!

Jake once again tears up the paper on the doctor's office examining table:

Visiting with the Reilly family

After visiting with Papa Joe, we headed upstate to visit Ralph's family - Patricia & Larry, Alexis, Charlie & Crystal, Joey & Tita, Diane, Aunt Dorsey, Lynne & Wally, Aunt Barb, Mema Peggy, and Mema Mary & Papa Ralph. Alexis had a nice time holding baby Jake and was interested in all things related to the baby.

Alexis, not sure about this baby-holding thing...



Jake, doing his absolute best impression of his Uncle Danny as a baby... (Valentine/Guie family - do you agree with me here or what?)

Visiting with Papa Joe

We spent most of Saturday on the road on the way to New York, braving the stormy weather to get to the wedding of Ralph's friend Mike Cerasoli. It took us four hours to get to NY and we missed the entire wedding ceremony, but made it to the reception... just in time for the power to go out! The reception was lit by candlelight - how romantic! Thank goodness for the generators that got the band playing and the food cooking. We had a great time! Mema Mary and Papa Ralph babysat while we were at the wedding.

On Sunday we went to visit Papa Joe. Jake fell asleep not long into our visit, but it was nice to get to see his great-grandfather. I LOVE these pictures!!!

Visiting with the Boyds

We had quite a whirlwind weekend! As soon as Jake and I got home from work/daycare friday night, we had a nice visit with Aunt Marianne, Uncle Bob, Cousin Brad and Cousin Caley.



I remember holding Brad when he was Jake's age and I was Brad's age. How time flies!



Jake loves how Aunt Marianne feed him his rice cereal! He ate his whole bowl!