Conference-ing with mom in Dallas

Travels for Sabiboy! We are back after a week in Dallas. After a lot of air travel related hijinks and some mixed reviews from the little one on his taste for air travel, Sabiboy made his Texas debut. Mom had 2 conferences last week so gramma came down and spent the first half of the week with us and daddy joined us for the second half. Dallas was truly different and it was neat to do some walking around. Sabi kind of had a tough time napping and sleeping with all the different environments, strange new crib and so many other things to do and see. These pictures were taken by Pamela from the John A. Hartford Foundations (those generous folks that support Mom's doctoral education) at a reception. Sabiboy had had a long and fun day with gramma and just when he came down to the reception to meet everyone, he fell asleep! Rest assured, he woke later to spend some quality time with the nurse academicians of the world.

8 months at the disco!!!

Wow, what a party. Today, Sabiboy is 8 big months old! We celebrated with Baby Loves Disco at Fluid nightclub. It was fullllll of other party babies and we had a great time. You can see that Little Guy was pretty fascinated with all of the lights, balloons, bubbles, decoration, other kids and whatnot...we couldn't get a picture of him looking at us! In fact, check out the picture of mom on the balcony (ahem, VIP room) and you'll see Sabi's mouth hanging open like it was most of the afternoon! After 2 hours dancing (and participating in a really exciting jumping contest) we wrapped up our day with a visit to the gluten free bakery. Yeah, the Bellot's can party.

Last one for now

but next week I hope to post pics from swimming class and our disco foray this weekend (www.babylovesdisco.com)

It's only letting me upload one pic at a time

so sorry if it's a little choppy...

Pictures!

Here goes nuthin'

Update on lack of pictures

Hm. I've been trying for 2 days but it won't let me post pictures. Until I get this little mystery figured out, stand by. I promise the pictures I described below as well as some VERY cute Halloween pictures of our little chicken!

Reunion, palms and swinging...

We are just inundated with interesting things these days! Last weekend, we hosted a reunion of the childbirth class. Everyone is getting so big and all of the babies are so beautiful! Courtney showed off her crawling and pulling up, much to everyone's amazement. She is so impressive! Prosper has some great new smiles and is so much more interactive and expressive than the last time we saw them. I must say, we did well by the Maternal Wellness Center! :) All of the kids took turns eating and taking naps and no one was really cranky (including the parents!). Sage had fun trying to pull Courtney's hair (shame!) and the boys lamented their baldness together. All in all, a great time.

Two other pictures we had to show off because they're just so durned cute...
1. Palms: On Sunday D & I were eating hearts of palm with our lunch. Kiddo went NUTS to grab onto one, then proceeded to nosh his way through two. What kind of a baby likes hearts of palm???

2. Just a picture of swinging in the last of beautiful fall weather. Still lovin' the park!

Last but not least a big HUG and hi to Mrs. Tompkins, our newest grandmother...Cincy affiliate!