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Some of our picks from the 1 to 2 month days.

Ah, Vancouver in the Spring.

Nothin' like a good nap!

Almost cute enough...

Definitely cute enough!

Love these little cheeks! Jeremy affectionately calls them jowls.

What was meant to be a cute picture of Moses' face ended up revealing a subplot. Take a look at Jeremy's hand...

Oh, the jollity!

One simply cannot have enough "Bumbo" photos. (For those of you who have not had the fortunate experience of owning a Bumbo, it's a baby-sized seat that allows little ones to sit up before they can balance the weight of their own heads. Poor things. Can you imagine if most of your body weight was in your head?)

Anyone else think he looks a little bit like Yoda here?

Nothin' but blue eyes shining on me.

Moses has amazing blue eyes. Jeremy's eyes are brown and mine are green. Moses also has blonde hair, very fair skin and dimples. As he seems to have inherited just about every unexpected trait in the gene pool he's earned the name "Recessive Boy".

According to Jeremy, yawns are one of the sweetest things that Moses does. He particularly likes the small end-of-yawn sigh.

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In an effort to catch up I present to you some favourite pictures from Mo's "early days". You know, waaaaay back before he was 5 months old. Here we go...

Spring was beautiful in Vancouver and we enjoyed many walks in our neighbourhood taking in the cherry blossoms and magnolia buds. Jeremy's in the background, pushing Moses in the stoller.

Our walks extended to "our beach" when Moses was about 4 or 5 weeks old. I love living in this place!

I had a bit of a learning curve when it came to figuring out baby clothes sizing. It's not like I can have 'try on' sessions to see what fits--basically, if I can wiggle it on, it stays. However, this day was definitely an 'oops'! I did make an exception to my 'if I can wiggle it on' rule and changed the poor kid before he got completely lost inside his clothing!

One of Moses' favourite pasttimes is standing. Don't know why. But he loves it and has been standing since about week 4.

Anyone know why these pictures are so grainy? (Seriously, it's not a sarcastic or rhetorial question.)

Here Moses is pictured with his buddies from our prenatal classes at the South Community Birth Program (a fabulous place!!!!). From the left we have Alasdair, Karin and Moses (who was the first to meltdown after this photo was taken).

Moses' first visit to New Hope Alliance where Jeremy is pastor. I think Moses might end up being the church mascot (at least until another baby is born).

Chillin' during the service.

This is one of many, many blurry pictures we have of The Mos. The kid is wiggly. Very wiggly indeed. But this is a typical happy and blurry day in the life of Moses Root Rios. Thanks for checking in. Stay tuned for the next post "Older."

A Little Behind

Guess who came up with that one?

Yep. Fred Aurbach himself. Leave it to Grandad to elicit a universal groan. :)

Admittedly, we are more than a little behind, but posting a picture of anyone else's behind would be inappropriate. I (Liesel) have wrested a whack of photos from ye old computer in the office and will be attempting over the next weeks to post this said whack on the blog from ye other computer in the living room.
Keep your eyes peeled for some long overdue Rios updates!

A Few Photos

So, I graduated. Yay.

Moses was certainly excited for me.

This photo's a bit older, but it's one of our favorites of the boy.

And here he is again, comfy with mom.

Multi-tasking

Moses was a lot of help when I was finishing my degree.

He even whispered some key ideas in my ear at one point.

He was very glad to meet Drusilla.

He really started smiling a lot when she was here!

Moses also enjoyed cinnamon rolls with Jamie and Charles!
(Charles not shown)

But a lot of the time, he's still just a little, sleeping lump.
We like having him around!

Sometimes, when we think Moses is asleep, we'll go to check on how he's doing.
This night, he was secretly checking out the world. So we took a photo. Sorry it's dark, but we think it captures some of his quizzical personality.