Arkansas!

My wonderful brother J let us stay with his family for two nights on our cross country trip.  They are the best!  Now here's a bunch of pictures!  Mostly of that adorable blue-eyed baby!

I was trying to take a self portrait.  But the camera is T's nice big one so it's hard to handle one handed.  "A" for effort, but "D" for results.  Also, he spit up during not one, but two attempts.  Good timing!

He wasn't too happy when I tried to pose him with this bear.  Apparently he wasn't feelin' the love.

This self portrait is better.  This kid loves looking in the mirror.

 I think if T and I didn't do one of these shots every time we got out the camera we would probably explode.

All bundled up to go out. He does the raised eyebrow quizzical expression thing a lot.  It is really cute.  It must be so disorienting to be a baby and not really know what is going on.  Or maybe he knows exactly what is going on and thinks we are all crazy...

We went to the Wal-Mart museum.  It's pretty small and pretty cool.  The chocolate mint Moon Pies we bought there kinda taste like the Thin Mint Girl Scout cookies. Yum.

This one makes me giggle.  J and L look so great and Baby M is like, "C'mon! You wanna piece of me?!"  He's even making a fist!  Haha!

Baby M likes to stretch like this.  J and L are so cute with him.  They might be new at this parenting thing, but they are already very good at it.

Two of my favorite dudes.  An interesting tidbit: T let his beard grow the entire trip.

We played a trivia type game.  I won the first round and T won the second.  Some of the questions were really out there.  Here's one question that obviously no one got:  "Why are all Bourbons Whiskey  but not all Whiskeys are Bourbon?"  The answer was something along the lines of "Bourbon is a whiskey that is produced only in the United States."   Also, here's one more attempt at a self portrait with Baby M.

Baby M sticks out his tongue a lot (left).  He also often has quizzical eyebrows (right).  Soooo cute.

 

Baby M has quite the range of facial features.  These were all taken pretty closely together time-wise.

Clockwise from top right: 

1. "Oohhh.  A surprise for me?"
2. "I'm upset about the goings on in the Middle East."
3. "Hulk ANGRY!"
4. "'Sup, man?  I'm just chillin'."

J definitely knows what to do to make that baby happy.

Baby M is not impressed with T's superman.  He's saying, "Really?  That's all you got?"  I was a little nervous Baby M would spit up on T during this particular game.

We played Wii party on Sunday night and Rockband on Monday night.  Baby M seemed to like Rockband - as well he should.  We also watched The Princess Bride.  I haven't seen that movie in forever and it is just as good as I remembered.  I was especially interested to watch the movie because I had started reading the book.  They are incredibly similar - right down to the dialogue, unlike some books that were made into movies and end up with a completely different plot (I'm looking at you Count of Monte Cristo).

We forgot to take a picture while we were all out to eat at this delicious BBQ place (Really it was delicious!  And I rarely say that about meat!) so we took one early on Tuesday morning before we left.  Baby M is fighting ninjas in his sleep.  Hi-yah!

We are SO glad we got to stop in Arkansas and hang out with J's family.  They fed us so well and the company was amazing.  Plus, we got to see that baby!  We thought we might not get to see him until he was already walking.