Happy Halloween! Roar!!!

Halloween in the C.T.

It's Pigwidgeon's favorite day of the year!


Eatin' pizza with Mom ...


I'm a scary dragon!


Seamus says: "send your costume pictures, cousins! dad will post them here."

I'm going to be a big brother!

Greta vs. Nature

We took Seamus down to the mill pond in the center of Milford yesterday. He enjoyed watching Greta feed the ducks, geese, swans, and seagulls that congregate there ... I enjoyed it even more, because Greta was terrified by them. She thought they might possibly peck her to death, or perhaps trample her with their little webbed feet. I'm not sure exactly what she thought was going to happen to her, actually, but it was very funny to watch.

This video is dedicated to Granny Franny, in fond remembrance of the days when we used to chase the pigeons in St. Peter's Square towards her.

Partay in Jersey!

Pumpkins!

Seamus went to his first pumpkin patch today. Here he is standing on a bridge with Daddy. The pond behind them had giant geese around it. Good thing Grandpa John wasn't there! Those geese wouldn't have lasted long.

Pumpkin boy!


Grampy makes Seamus laugh.

Roadtrip!

We drove up to Gloucester, Massachusetts this weekend to see our nephew Wes Dunn ride in a cyclocross race. It was really cool, a mix between road racing and motocross kind of. We were so proud of Wes when he came in 3rd on Saturday and 4th on Sunday. The coolest person was the woman who won the women's race but decided she needed to warm up during the race before, which was the B-level men's race. She beat most of them. Way too cool. We had a great time and got to see Teri and Tris too. Very nice couple of days! Oh and Seamus got another tooth as well, so now he's up to seven!

Tris, Jim and Seamus at the race.

Mama and Seamus

Proud mom and Wes

I'm too cute!

All Those Months Ago

Was cleaning out my computer and found this picture of Seamus in his first week. I don't remember him being that tiny! He's a little more than twice as big now. Seamus is 37 weeks old today and will be 9 months old in 2 weeks!

Also found this funny before and after that my mom made while she was staying with us the first 2 weeks of Seamus's life. Jim pretty much still looks like the After photo, but that will end soon when he starts his new job at Yale! Can't wait.

Yogurt

Rain

Cheerios on the Floor!

I walked into the kitchen to get some coffee and came back to cereal all over the floor.

To soothe the savage beast

Seamus is a pretty even-tempered guy, but there are a few things that he hates. Among them are being strapped into a car seat, and being over-tired. We deal with the former by distracting him with this cheeky Dora the Explorer-related toy .. as you can tell, he loves it!



We usually deal with the crabby overtired baby situation by taking him to the beach -- the sound of the waves is like NyQuil to him. Sometimes, though, it's rainy or cold, and we have to resort to cuddling and dancing with him. For some reason, the music that soothes him the best is Aimee Mann -- in particular, a song called "Susan". The "Play Count" column in iTunes tells us that we have used this song as a sedative 146 times so far. I love Aimee Mann, and I'm grateful that he hasn't chosen, say, Avril Lavigne instead, but I can say that Susan is ... not ... my ... favorite ... song anymore. (Although the line "We kissed for a while to see how it played" still makes me smile sometimes.)

On the plus side, this early exposure to Aimee's music will leave him fully prepared to deal with romantic disappointment with elegantly-crafted expressions of regret.

I couldn't find Susan online, but here's an awesome video of another of Seamus' favorite tunes:


PS: The English major in me feels compelled to confess that I have misquoted William Congreve in the title of this post.

Crazy Chicken

Seamus feeds himself