babycondin: July 2006

We're back.......

from our jaunt to Whistler, which started as a camping trip that never really got off the ground. We ended up staying at the Chateau Whistler. Well, right next to it anyway. You had to drive by the "Welcome to the Chateau" sign to get to our hotel. Carolynn and I had a great trip - everyone there had a broken limb or a huge gash as it was the CrankWorks Mountainbike competition. We experienced another side of Whistler - the one where you have a kid. It was lots of fun, but qualitatively different from past Whistler trips. I did, however, get to walk through a group of 20 beautiful girls while I was alone and holding the baby. It was really great - I'll tell you about it in person.

Here's a few pics from our trip!

Introducing Pudge-Pudge Boy, newest member of the Superhero Academy.

First time driving.

First time discovering beeeeer on the patio at Earls. We liked it very much. Thoroughly taken with it, actually.

Here's where the waitress threatened to kick us out.

So we switched to water.

But as soon as we left that place, we got back into the booze. Here he is after opening his first ever bottle of wine on the streets of Whistler! This is the last thing any of us can remember.

UPDATE: In response to inquiries from Child Protection Services, we would like to clarify, for the record, that it was the icy-cold glass he was trying to ingest, not the beer, and that mom did not let even one drop of beer touch this baby's lips (though Dad might have given him one small dabble when she wasn't looking.)

Look at me!

Forgotten in the grass with the landscapers nearby.

Checkin out the tree by the beach.

Ingesting the tree by the beach.

Headed for the beach in Whistler. Where the babes are. With my mom.

Teething. Or at least, chewing on everything in sight. Here we are with an icy cold hotel cloth.

We've learned to grab our feet now, and our hair is getting curlier. (The afro is on order).

4 Months Old.

Further to the last post, where I described how we were starting to wonder what was up with Mr. Miserable here, we had a pretty good week and things improved. On Friday we tried to escape the heat of ~~Bombay~~ British Columbia by going to Gibsons. A few beach pics are coming soon. Carolynn's still there and tells me he's turned crabby again today. Maybe it's the oven we're baking in here on the coast.

On another note, I should try and describe briefly how great it is having this new addition around. When Carolynn was pregnant, and before (like when we were young and careless and had no responsibilities), people used to tell us things like "oh, having kids is the greatest joy in your life" etc., etc., and things similar. Before Evan arrived these often felt like platitudes or niceties. Now this has a new meaning, and it's not one either of us can explain or articulate. He's just truly a joy to have around.

Lately Evan's started to hold things and now he's stuffing everything in his mouth. It's neat to watch him trying to make sense of things like flowers, gravity, and the way his swing moves. We took him in the ocean for the first time on the weekend (he cried, but it's in his blood). He's started acquiring simple tastes. One day he just woke up and had the capacity to hate the carseat. The next day he realized he hates wearing clothes. He screams his head off now whenever we try and put anything on him. And he's laughing and cooing and smiling and making new sounds all the time.

Anyway, all of these things are pretty, well... amazing/incredible/fun/exhausting/rewarding. I can't believe how much experience gets crammed into 4 months with a baby.

Here he is impressing the women, as always. These are from Lindsay's camera this past Monday.

With cousins Jasmine and Lindsay.

The latest news.

Hi all,
Well for the throngs of you eagerly awaiting more baby pictures (hi Mom!), here's a quick update. Pictures have slowed a bit as we've been trying to enjoy the summer and we were in Gibsons for the weekend. We had a great time wakeboarding with Evan on the ~~boat~~ beach, and we got lots of sun. The weekend led to two events that will impact upon the blog, so I share them with you here:

1. Steve and I broke our camera. Mostly Steve. Incidentally, I've found out that there's lots of great new cameras on the future shop website.

2. Evan started teething, we think, from all the exposure to the sun, which made him grow faster. He's been miserable for the last 36 hours and counting, and refuses to smile. Currently, he's been placated by tylenol and is asleep in the carseat. We are also happy to report that Evan's lungs and crying organs, which previously had been separated at birth and were living contented lives as distinct parts, have been reunited. They've both grown over the weekend too, and they're learning how to work better as a team to wreak havoc, shatter mirrors, and split ear-drums.

We'll keep you posted on these events as they unfold. Hope you're having fun in the sun!

UPDATE: Well he's asleep on queue at 11.00 pm, which is his usual bedtime, but we had an up and down night. On the bright side, I think I'm starting to understand Freud. The oral stage has been a blast so far.

UPPER-DATE: Scratch the sleep part.

2 Evans in a Crib - after a long afternoon of partying, they both crashed. Hard. At 3:30 pm on a Sunday.

Well we hope you had an awesome long weekend too. We had our 2nd baby bbq, with some friends from around the neighbourhood with newborns. See the festivities from Baby BBQ 1 here, (linked picture is of the same babies, almost the same order, about a month and a half ago). Anyway, here are some of the pics from our wild night. Hope you enjoy. By the way, that's Natalie, Anna, Evan, Evan and Amelia (from the left). All 4 months old or less.