babyland

i could take a million pictures like this and never get tired of them.
i looked around our house today and realized that tayloe the baby has just about taken over. he's everywhere. the final straw was a playpen which takes up a large amount of living room space. i sat here looking at it, trying to think of a way to make it blend a little more and realized it was just pointless. there just isn't a way to make a bright blue playpen with a multi-colored caterpillar, orange tweety bird and blue frog hanging from it mesh with our decor.
so we're just hanging out, me and him, because tayloe's in toronto for the film festival. we're having pizza and celebrating our first 24 hours alone together. we spent the first 8 hours on the couch asking each other what we should do. i wish i'd asked tayloe for a review of dvd player operating instructions. i could just start pushing buttons until something works, but usually when i do that i break something.
tomorrow we'll need to get out of the house. i have a big plan in my head for us to walk to the farmer's market in the morning before my dad arrives. we need to walk because i think i may have eaten close to 15 small chocolate chip cookies while tay was having his mid-afternoon meal. he was munching and i started munching and zoning out and before i knew it 15 minutes had passed and the cookie bag was considerably lighter.
the trouble is most of the time my big plans and his big plans don't jive. i think, "let's walk to starbucks and take wolly to the dog park." he thinks, "let's sit on the couch, watch the today show and then poop our pants!" he usually wins.
latest stats: weight - 9 lbs, 13 oz. length - 23 inches.