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The other day Cole ate snacks for the first time! Very exciting!! He had gotten the green light from our pediatrician, so we bought some peas, bananas, and apples. We figured we'd start with bananas because the truth is, bananas are delicious. Unless you're Andy Smith, but he's an anomaly.

The first face he made when confronted with the feeling of food in his mouth was something like this:



But then he seemed totally intrigued and loved it:



He also totally got the hang of it and started feeding himself. He was like, "hey man, I got this. Take five while I scarf this down."



It was pretty sweet. Here are some more pictures of the event.






Fun! I also took some video. Here's some video!

2 Things

I've just updated kateplusadam.com. It now an aggregation of a couple things:

The last 2 blog posts
The latest 19 photo uploads to Flickr
The last 2 videos we uploaded to youtube
My twitter tweets (tweet!)
Links to all the old stuff

So yeah. Might be a good place to look for updates because we don't always update everything at the same time.

Also, our hard drive came back from the hard drive monkeys, and now we've got a whole mess of photos to blog about. All of that to come, because I have to get to WORK! Preview:

Quick shout out

I just wanted to take a moment to give a series of hugs to all the people at the Beth Israel NICU. We went to the NICU reunion tent at the March of Dimes on Saturday and it was so wonderful to see everyone! Among the amazing staff at the table, Grace and Stacy were there, giving Cole kisses and happily squeezing him. We had a nice chat with Dr. Gupta too. It felt so great to be among that company again, celebrating Cole and his new fat rolls.

No photos for now, because our hard drive with the photos on it is under the knife, but as soon as it gets back there will be a big ass post with 47 thousand photos. Maybe more.

Mom and Dad are leaving today *sad!* It was an incredible visit, and deserves its own detailed post. I'll write that later, I have to go get some work done.

Miles of Smiles

So, it's been a while. What's up?

We've been up to all sorts of shenanigans: visiting parents (grandparents!), a wedding, and lots of playing with friends, near and far. We've seen international racing boats, museums, bars, ice cream shops, rain, sun, and fresh spring breezes. Also a bunch of other stuff that I can't think of right now.

Here's Cole next to his very first turbo:


We had the honor of joining Livia and Jamie for their son's Baptism, and we wanted Cole to look especially respectable. Kate's mom Jane had managed to find a super awesomely appropriate outfit for him. Here he is all dressed up for the first time.


He was ready way before we were, so he sat around on the couch while Kate and I got our stuff together. Drumming his fingers, he waited patiently.


Cole has found out that his fingers can be used to grab stuff. Like my face.


Cole met a new green friend in the past couple weeks.


When they talk to each other, the words they use are mostly "RAWR!" and "AARRRR!".



One thing that we've been trying to do for quite some time now is capture one of Cole's big happy smiles on "film." Here are some of our best examples:





Yay smiles and giggles!
More pictures and updates to come. Just have to recover my busted hard drive. Yay.