funny faces

this is what happens when you let someone else use your camera... lots of random shots. I can be paid to remove this blog post! LOL!

the belly shot...

the butt shot...

wait... this is the tree in all it's glory... before unwrapping commenced.

and this is the crazy photographer....

won't be letting her teach Lane this trick...

and in case you were wondering this is a self photo.

Christmas Chaos

Lane was transfixed on Great Grandma

however he was tired of family photo's

Grandma showing Lane his new toy

meeting great Aunt Jeanne

he was given fair warning about great Uncle Greg

even Shannon couldn't wake him up

Lindsay couldn't either..

Christmas Day started off at the Sens and then we went over to Grandma's for dinner and gifts. Lane was much better behaved on Christmas Day and didn't have any meltdowns. That was saved for the arrival at home and blowing out several diapers in a row. At least we didn't experience that in the car! Now back training him to sleep in his own bed and sleep at night and play during the day.

Christmas Eve Surprise

Quick trip to Rochester...

Great Grandma Stapelton & Grandpa Sens with Lane

Tracy & Lane

Great Aunt Jeanette & Lane

Mark's dad was not able to make the trip for Christmas so we made a very quick trip to see him and stayed at Hotel Wegs (thanks Shannon!!!). We stopped by Christmas Eve for a quick visit with Aunt Jeanette and cousin Tracy. Grandma Sens was given a 3 hour advance notice.

Great Grandma Stapleton was very surprised as was Grandpa Sens! Lane was great in the car and it probably helps that it puts him to sleep at this age.

no Christmas for the cats

Pretty sure they made the Time Warner customer service lady's day yesterday. How often do you hear them laugh? Mark was working on adding voice mail to our phone - long story - and he had the phone on speaker. Cali loves to sit under the Christmas tree and sleep. Must think she is outside. Anyway, Mani decided that she needed a bath and started licking her face. This did not go over well as you might imagine. Who likes their face licked? She started snarling and trying to get away and he was not about to let up. A huge brawl ensued and I was sure the tree was going to be knocked over. We were laughing really hard and for a moment forgot about the speaker phone being on. We soon heard laughing over the phone so we had to explain what the ruckus was about and she had to put us on hold to finish laughing. She was still laughing when she came back on. They were so loud and sounded like lions at the zoo. Pretty sure Santa won't be leaving treats under the tree this year for them.

Christmas Lights Outing

(this was taken from the top of a hill in the distance)

One of the locals made the Fox 5 News in NYC last week with their Christmas display. I couldn't stop laughing because the news anchors were sure there was a typo and it had to be in Marlboro, NJ not Marlboro, NY. They had never heard of Marlboro, NY. I am guessing they really live under a rock in Manhattan because who on TV doesn't know Snooki and when they mention Snooki they frequently mention where she is from which can vary from Poughkeepsie to Marlboro on any given day. She is NOT from the Jersey Shore in case you had that fantasy going. I don't know her and won't pretend I do - we just hear stories from people who live around here.

Anyway major digression. Not only did the display make the news it made the newspaper locally - a weekly I might add. Big deal around here. So we bundled up Lane and decided to go check it out. Turns out it was 5 minutes from home. I was pretty sure we were just doing a drive by, but I still resisted putting on some warm pajama pants. Thank goodness I put on real clothes because we did hop out and take some pictures. We met the people who put up the display and he took our picture. They have over 140 hand painted signs of all sorts of characters and a crazy number of flood lights. Many are Disney and cartoon characters - lots of princesses and animals. I am guessing snow makes it look even cooler, but no snow here yet just the cold.

Getting ready to go sporting the hat from Grandma K and the famous fingers in the mouth. There is no preference to which fingers or fist go in just in case you are wondering.

In looking at the photo's now I see how you could take a fun Christmas card picture here with so many characters - see Fred Flinstone and Winnie the Pooh? I can see how kids just love this stop on the lights tour because it is not just lights and music. Santa also had a display, but we didn't wander too much and he was up on a hill of shrubs. Probably for a reason.

careful what you pray for

I only asked for dirty diapers and boy did we get them. The ped said his intestinal tract was a bit immature leading to a huge diaper once every few days. She said it would improve and to try out caffeine. Never got to the caffeine because we have turned the corner. Friday night there was a huge explosion as I was putting him to bed. Huge. Sounded like a bomb going off in his diaper. Much easier to catch it right after it happens is the lesson here. Then he did it one more time in the next hour. Last night in 2 hours he did it 3 times and then woke up with one more that Mark got the pleasure of changing. We've already had one more this morning and also a pee "out". Loads of laundry on tap for today and a bath on the fly.
It's also time to do some diaper homework. I have two types of pampers. One came as a gift and has this grid type mesh to it. They are not my favorites because they stick to his little boy parts and he cries when I change him and pull them off. Its really weird how that happens. The other pampers are dry max and don't have it. Very odd to have different types of pampers. This will take some trial and error. He is between the new born size and size one. Definitely using the size one's at night time to catch all the explosions!