Bear Sounds

Baby Bear's really learning some important growling skillz these days.  It's pretty impressive.  Check out the first couple seconds of these videos.






And some regular baby babbling...along with daddy terrifying baby man just a smidgy bit.

Sitty Bear

Lately he's gotten pretty good at sitting. Depending on his mood, he can sit unassisted on the floor for up to a few minutes and can sit up on our bed indefinitely. Something about the cushiness makes it easier to balance I guess. Huh. According to spell check, cushiness isn't a real word. Psht. Blogger's got a pretttty limited vernacular if you ask me.

Around 30 seconds into the video he gets pretty intense. Must be some sort of dominant bear ritual or something. After that it gets pretty boring though.

Stay Cool

 

I couldn't let Ryan steal all the glory with that picture in the last post.  Not sure if this one competes but it's the best I can come up with on short notice.  

 Before I tell this story, I guess I should explain that I get really nervous around cops.  Like I'm gonna get busted for breaking laws that I don't even know exist.  I feel like this is very rational and it serves me well as you'll see if you read on.

So earlier today I was driving past an officer and thought to myself "okay, stay cool, just look natural.  we don't want this cop getting suspicious of any foul play," and promptly crashed the van into the curb, peeled out when I floored the gas in an attempt to brake, finally found the brakes and violently skidded to a halt.  I even had the presence of mind to roll my window down and explain to the officer that I've got this fear of cops which will sometimes result in my inability to function physically.  Which is completely untrue since I was obviously way smooth and casual the whole time but he totally bought it.  Job well done, I say.  He never suspected a thing and I got to go on with my day without being arrested.

Okay and so this post isn't too disappointing  to grandma elkins, here's a picture of ryan and baby man.

...and baby man after a bath.

Lookin cool...and more random pictures

A Test of Sorts, if You Will

So...trying to figure this whole blog layout thing and I couldn't think of a more perfect picture to use for the test than the one above. Also I'm told that if you upload videos to youtube instead of blogger they don't look as crappy. We'll see how it goes.

Just Hangin'

Not much going on lately. We're in the market for a new home for baby man since he demands it. We may have found something that we all like out in Sandy...crap. I'm even boring myself. and we're only like 3 sentences in. hmm. The exciting part is that it's right next to this pretty cool gully so we'll get to go on some awesome scenic walks with the baby bear whenever we want. It's also pretty close to where my friend Poopers* is living right now so when we're walking in the gully we could keep each other company in order to keep those pesky rapists at bay. She claims that they're deterred by larger numbers but I can't help but fear that more people just invites a rapist party. We will just see who wins this debate.

Baby Man's finally started to babble. He's big on saying Mama, mumumum, baba, and blah blah so as you can imagine, we are having some riveting conversations these days. I don't have in on video yet but that's next on my agenda.

Here he is munching on his fingers, his favorite snack.


And here's a random video for the grandmas. It's nothing new, just baby man hanging out in his little toy car. He just goes bananas for it.




Oh and baby man's standing unassisted now!








...or not. well, whatever.







*she claims to hate this name but I can't help but feel she's lying. plus I've got to use some sort of alias lest online predators find out she lives in sandy