Virg is our sunshine

Today Virg had an extensive photo shoot. This will happen when the Mommy and the baby and the digital camera are in the same room together. 39 photos of Virg in yellow. Every single one was a keeper. If the Daddy were home there may have been some protest against the giant yellow flower, but Virg seemed to think it tasted all right. It was hard to pick just one picture to put on the blog, but this one speaks volumes. Even dressed all in yellow, holding a ginormous yellow flower, he's still a suave and charming little man. You can almost hear him saying, "Hello ladies. Your long wait is over. God's gift to you has arrived."

Ukulele revisited

If you recall, there was a post back in July that showed Virg next to a Uke. We'll here he is again about three months later. Soon he'll be big enough play it and as you can see, he's very excited. There were some questions with that last post as to the type of Ukulele. It's a soprano Uke that was made by Harmony in Chicago USA, it's 21 inches total (13" scale length from nut to bridge), and it's tuned to standard "g c e a" tuning. Virg prefers the "g c e a" tuning as apposed to the more traditional "a d f# g" tuning.

Family finances

Priorities change after a child. Proof of this can be seen in the many aspects of your life, but you needn't go any further then your latest grocery receipt. Here is a typical receipt that a new family can expect to file away for those future IRS audits.

It's interesting that the bulk of the money is spent on diapers for Virg. These will eventually be covered in baby leavings and thrown away. There may be some universal truth to be found in that observation... but I'd rather not think about it now. The next bulk of money is spent on Pabst beer. Pabst is God's gift to all fathers. That only left our family around $5.00 for sustenance. We all voted and decided on Ice Cream. If you lots all your money, were evicted from your house, all your pets died, and you literally saw the four horsemen of the apocalypse galloping towards on on the horizon, and someone handed you a bowl of ice cream, you couldn't help but smile and feel like everything was going to be OK. Virg like french vanilla the best.

Are you ready to ROCK!!!

Children are starting to play video games at such a young age these days. Virg likes Rock Band the best. He totally shreds on the virtual guitar. The virtual crowd just loves him. One virtual groupie even threw their virtual underwear at him. I was virtually disturbed. Virg is a total rock star. He stays up way late into the evening, mumbles incoherently, passes out after going on a drinking bender, soils himself, and has a 24 hour staff to clean up after him. Here's Virg passed out on me just after he gave me some pointers on how to get through a song with no mistakes... that's right - 1485345 note streak!

Hello Covington! Are you ready to ROCK!! (or maybe just take a little nap)

The Incredible Virg

Most all of the pictures that have been on this blog have shown a happy, calm, innocent little baby... but there is another side to the Virg. An anger that sleeps deep within.

Dr. Virg Banner, Physician/Scientist, searching for a way to tap into the hidden strengths that all humans have. Then an accidental overdose of his two month immunization shots interacts with his unique body chemistry. And now, when Virg Banner grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphoses occurs. The creature is driven by rage and a constant pursuit of milk. So Virg must keep his diapers clean and his tummy full, until he can find a way to control the raging spirit that dwells within him.

Don't make him angry... you wouldn't like him when he's angry!



(well OK - you'll still think he's super cute and fall in love with him, but come on... give a baby a break!)

Support your local CSA!

All throughout his time in the womb and up to the milk that sustains him today, Virg has been enjoying the fresh, 100% organic, local vegetables from a CSA (community supported agriculture). Virg got to visit the Whistling Train Farm today and see firsthand the bountiful harvest that is helping him grow so big and strong.

Sure Monsanto has genetically engineered cauliflower the size of a small VW Bug, and corn that will actually hunt down and kill all other types of corn, but there's just something about local organic vegetables that is so appealing. Maybe the fact that it doesn't scare me. Today there was also a fruit share to pick up (2 lbs. of ripe peaches). Time to go to Grandma and Grandpa to "borrow" some ice cream!

The grand scheme of things...

Every now and then we all come across things that make us reexamine what we think we know about... well, everything. Picking up the phone to place a call, only you don't hear a dial tone. After a pause you here a "Hello?" from the receiver and it was the person you were going to call. Having a pain in your finger and deciding maybe you should call your sister to check up on how she'd doing only to find out she almost cut her finger off with a butter knife. Listening to your baby fill his diapers and thinking to yourself, but I just changed him and there's no way such a small body can produce such a large quantity of poo.

But here's a fun one. See if you can put the following four pictures in order from largest to smallest. One is of our Universe, one is the lights of a city taken from space, one is of Virg, and one is of a group of neural cells found in your brain. (Note: This was the hardest blog post I've made as I had to travel both outside the Universe and inside your brain for two of the pictures.)