Saturday, August 9, 2008

Welcome Fisher Party

Last weekend was also a welcome grill out party for Fisher. Lots of great food and great family! Fisher was glad to meet everyone.


Cousins Hayden and Logan with Fisher.


Cousins Keegan and Logan keeping cool.


Fisher got some great presents.


And so did Henry!


Aunt Leslie is such a natural!


Jump!




Getting a lift from Dad after swimming.




All the cousins...we sure do have lots of boys!

Note: I have to give a photo credit to my cousin Laura who pretty much commandeered my camera for the day...and who I'm sure by now is a proud owner of a new camera just like mine!

Fishing Fun Family Weekend

Last weekend was the annual Gibson get together. Ed's siblings all meet at the cabin in Madisonville and fish, play bocce and drink a few beers. This year I obviously had so much fun that I forgot to take many pictures! I'm glad I did document who did the real fishing though...the girls! Laura and Emily did the lion's share of fishing while the boys were off playing golf everyday! Thank goodness Laura brought up some some shrimp and oysters from Florida to help round out the weekend's catch. As usual the weekend went too fast and everyone had a great time.




Henry and Aunt Emily and Aunt Laura.



It was a little hot last weekend.




Henry took this picture!


I can't believe it took him his long to finally give me the paparazzi hand.



Maggie and Jack.



Henry and Maggie played keep away with the sticks.


Henry lost this round.


Like I said, it was a little hot.





Fisher keeping cool in the shade of the stroller with his new, and appropriate, "catch of the day" onesie from Aunt Emily.


Maggie keeping cool.


I think she looks a little Loch Ness Monster-esque.



Getting some pointers from Aunt Laura.



Maggie keeping an eye on the fish.



Belly.


Cousin Julie and Baby Owen.


Uncle Jon, his nephew and Henry's new friend, Matthew. I was going to try to explain Jon's outfit, but he's just going to have to do that for himself.


More belly.


Matthew, Henry and Henry's new 'noculars. (Thanks Aunt Emily!)





The men on the dock.


Poppy and Henry.


Catching Matthew.


I'm going to...


catch...


Poppy!


Giving Ommy a warm welcome.




The herron? crane? that was hanging around all weekend.


Good bye everyone.


We had a great time.


Can't wait until next year.

Like I said, I must have been having such a good time that I didn't take pictures of everything, I totally missed the actual fish fry. I didn't get any pictures of Uncle Kenny and his girlfriend Shelia, of Jeremy, or of cousin Otto. Next year!!

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

Smile!




Fisher has really started smiling lately. For awhile he was only giving a little smile after he eats and, well, you know...while passing gas, but now he is doing real, big, happy smiles when I talk to him, especially in that silly sing-songy voice we all do acting like big goobers talking to babies. I've been dying to capture these smiles with my camera but I think something is lost when I get out my big black camera with its scary protruding lens pointed right in his face. I quickly grabbed my iPhone today and captured a few little smiles. They don't capture the heart tugging "oh my gosh I'm really communicating with my baby" moment, but is anything as great as actually holding a baby?

He seems to be channeling a little Popeye.