Mr. Mom

Mom's in Chicago for work so I've been tasked with updating the blog this week among other things. Here's Olivia eating way better than I did today and saying hi to Mom in the process.

Happy New Year and War Eagle!

We rang in the New Year by visiting with old friends
and celebrating Auburn's victory at the Chik-Fil-A
Bowl.

Pre-game tailgate outside the Dome: Pat, Steve and Joe
take a moment to reminisce about the trailer
parks in Lee County.

Thank God it was chilly and we had alcohol. There were
SpreadHeads everywhere for the annual Widespread
New Year's Eve extravaganza. There's nothing like the
smell of SpreadHeads... especially when it's warm out.
Like I said, thank God it was chilly!

Kate mugs for the camera as Joe tells her her
zipper is down (it wasn't).

Now that's more like it.

Did I mention the SpreadHeads?! Let's not forget the
abundance of Christian Nazis that also show up
every year in hopes of converting a SpreadHead, or a
football fan, or a bum roaming the streets... you get
the picture. I mean who wouldn't want to join a group
of people whose slogan is "Turn or Burn?!?!"

Can you tell by the looks on our faces that this
photo was taken after midnight. Do you like
Dirty Steve's middle finger?!

Steve thinks he is funny.

Yeah C'Mon.

All the while Olivia and her Auburn paci slept comfortably
(or uncomfortably?) in the corner of her crib.
If you blow this photo up you'll see that her
toes are touching her pacifier.

Thanks again to Grand-Mom and Pop-Pop for stopping
by to spend New Year's Eve with Olivia!

Olivia's First Christmas

As promised, here is Olivia opening one of her gifts Christmas morning.

FYI-I'm telling the creepy centipede to shut up, not the family.

And Another Notable Birthday

That's right folks, Christmas is not only a

day to celebrate the birthday of "The Man Upstairs."

We must not forget that it is also the birthday of one of

our favorite Irishmen. The ever-inebriated and unintelligible

Shane McGowan has defied medical mystery once again. He

celebrates his 50th birthday today. We'll drink to that!

Uh oh...

Ok , the video I promised is not good so we'll have to wait until tomorrow morning for decent video of Olivia opening gifts. For now you'll have to settle for her doing some diamond shopping.

Bruiser

We apparently have a tomboy on our hands. Liv got a bump at daycare today but took it like a champ. I was walking around the bookstore with her this afternoon (semi black eye and all) when another dad said to me, "you know she's missing a shoe, right?" My reply was "yes I know, I'm a bad father." Maybe a little too deadpan, I forget that some people don't know when I'm joking.

In front of the Christmas tree with her new reindeer friend.

Here she is biting my nose. This is a lot more painful than it looks.

Dad-get out of my shot!

We're working on some action shots of Nina pulling a sled with Olivia riding shotgun for Christmas. So far Nina's not taking to the antlers very well.