Beach ready

Chase has been practicing up on his surfing and is looking forward to his first beach trip next week. As you can see he he would make quite a nice piece of shark bait these days. At his 2 month check up last week he was up to a whopping 13 lbs 2 oz. He made the 95% percentile in the weight category...what an advanced kid! He checked out well in all the other categories and got 4 shots. That didn't make for a fun evening, but it passed.

2 months

Poor kid...2 months old today, and this is the only picture we have to show for it. While he does have multiple chins, it usually doesn't look quite so droopy. He's happy though, which is more than we can say for when we took him to have portraits made tonight. He did not really care for that experience too much. I put off having pictures made until he could smile....well, he can smile plenty, but just not if he doesn't want to! The photographer kept waiting for who knows what expression on his face. We finally had to explain to her that for a 2 month old a smile can change to a scream in .2 seconds. He did crack a couple of smiles, but none that she caught. Oh well, we got 1 good picture - although no smile - which is not too bad considering we only had 4 to choose from. We just wanted to document the fact that he is alive and well at 2 months and we did. The pictures will be ready in a couple of weeks.

The other side...

So, yes, he does cry. Melinda was in town for a visit this week and bravely stayed at our house. We weren't sure she would last the week with the many early morning wake up calls, but she did. It was a good time. I just thought this picture was appropriate to post just to be sure everyone wasn't thinking that Chase was all smiles. Still, though, can you really be mad at that face!