New portraits!

Mandi took Jacob into Babies R Us yesterday to have portraits done. I was really pleased with the results—he was a lot happier than the previous portraits so we got some really great pictures out of it. Here are the winners:

4.5 month portraits

I'm Mobile!

Jacob is rolling now. A lot! It started two nights ago when he flipped himself over in his crib while swaddled. We can't swaddle him anymore. Now anytime you lay him on his back, he tries to roll, mostly onto his left side. He's pretty fascinated with his new trick.

Belated Update

It's sure been a long time since the last update! I bet barely anyone even checks the site any more.

We've had a busy few weeks. Jacob had a stubborn abscess on his bottom which wouldn't go away—we'd give him antibiotics, it would vanish, then the antibiotics would run their course and it would come back. Turns out he had a fistula (click here if you want the gory details from Wikipedia or here for Emedicine if you have way too much time on your hands). Now this is easily treatable, but it requires surgery including general anesthesia. It's an outpatient procedure and the doctor was experienced in this sort of thing but still, Mandi and I were worried sick.

Fortunately, there were no complications and Jacob did fine. He woke up screaming at the top of his lungs but hey, I can't imagine that I would have handled the situation any differently. It will be a few weeks before he is fully recovered from the surgery but so far he is healing up as well as can be expected.

At present, Jacob is two days away from his 4-month birthday, and in 12 hours I will be leaving town for a week to attend a conference in San Francisco for work. Mandi's mom is coming down to help take care of Jacob while I'm gone.

I've uploaded a random collection of pictures from the last month:

Vroom