You may have noticed a slight change.

Maybe I'm giving too much credit to the readership (doesn't that make it sound grandiose?) of this blog, but you may have noticed a change to the title of this blog.

This should, for most of you, signal a dramatic change in the overall zeitgeist of the blog itself.

Enough with the fancy talk!

Hudson Davis Cornell joined our little merry band of marauders on December 15th, at 5:35pm. Not to be outdone by his big brother Cooper, he arrived weighing in at a hefty 8lb. 10oz., stretched across a 19.5in. frame.

Even though his original flight plan included natural childbirth, the control tower advised an assisted landing via cesarean. Although this greatly worried the pilot, both she and passenger are doing perfectly fine and/or recuperating nicely. (The aforementioned passenger has a healthy appetite for the airline food :).

Pictures to follow when sleep/nosleep schedule allows.

Where to Begin?

Okay, so I just threw up (not like that) a bunch of posts with pictures and a few videos (give the videos time, they were still processing last I checked).
If you haven't been here in a while, start here and work your way forward.

As time permits, I may go back and add more video. Maybe. :)

Birthday Party!

First, I do want everyone to know that we decided to do a family only birthday party this year. Tobi had been measuring early with the baby, so instead of risking a canceled party due to labor/delivery, we opted for a smaller family only gathering. As it turns out, much of the family couldn't make it anyway, being out of town or having other plans, so it was pretty much a thanksgiving redux as far as attendees. Still a great time though. Many laughs.

We started the party later in the day so that Cooper could nap at his normal time. So, when he woke up, he was very surprised that there were more people at the house than when he had gone to sleep.

Grammy, Coop and Devlin. Cooper flirting with Devlin, as usual.

We did some dancing. And by that I mean Cooper wanted to dance, and when Cooper dances, everyone else is forced to dance as well.

Dinnertime with Devlin!! (Check out her look of concentration!)

The cake, prior to dis-assembly.

Release the hounds!

Yum.

Cake for Mommy.

Cake for Daddy.

The whole gang. (Well, the partial gang...)

A bell Grammy gave Cooper, in memorium the previous days trip to the mall Santa and the 'Polar Express' theme.

Stacking blocks!

A microphone! (Cooper likes 'Sid the Science Kid', so we thought he could identify with the mic.)

Mmmmm. Wrapping paper.

New (soft) balls to play with.

A new outfit. How dapper.

A vacuum? Awesome!! (Cooper really does like the vacuum; he's been pretending to vacuum with many other toys the past few weeks.)

Vacuuming while Uncle David plays with Elmo.

I had to include this one, because it shows the 'just after' reaction of David getting hit in the face with a ball. FUN!

Hat!

I mentioned awhile back that Cooper was averse to hat wearing, and that lately he's been better about it, which is good because it's gotten cold recently. Here is proof.

I'm just glad Tobi is his Mommy, because he didn't get this cuteness from me.

Actual Birthday. Actually.

This was Cooper's after dinner birthday cupcake on his birthday. (The big cake was saved for his party...) He really understand the concept of blowing out the candles - even if he's not good at it yet. Every time he sees candles now he says "Candle, fire, blow it out."
As a bonus, the candles I got were that trick kind that relights after you blow them out. This was not intentional, the part that says "relighting" was in 2pt. font somewhere in the neighborhood of the 30pt. font "Candles". [Sigh.]





Here is a long video of Cooper enjoying his cupcake.