Rockin' the knit pants

At what other point in your life can you wear knit pants and look this cool?! Only this point (especially if his daddy has any say in it)! :) No worries, Henry, the pattern only goes up to 24 months so I won't make you wear these to kindergarten or anything. :) But you sure do look cute!

Talented friend

My friend, Laura DeSouza, had come out to our house to take some pictures of Henry a month ago and I just had to put some of them up on the blog because I'm so impressed with her abilities! How come when I take pictures they NEVER turn out this good? She captured so many classic Henry faces that Daniel and I love. I'm printing these and putting them in my bedside drawer so I can always remember his cute little baby face -- which will come in handy on terrible toddler days and during the trying teenage years! :) Thank you so much Laura! I will cherish these forever.

ReSLUnion

Henry and I drove to Chicago a few weekends ago in mid September to get together with some friends from college. Daniel stayed home to paint our bathroom walls, which turned out so great! He was a trooper with us being gone and we all realized how much we missed each other when we were apart. Henry and I were both happy to see Daniel when we got home after being gone for 3 nights!

Like I said in a previous post, Henry was so great in the car. It took us about 8 hours to get there, but we stopped twice and took our time. Plus we hit Chicago traffic going into the city for the last 10 miles which took us about an hour to get through! Gotta love Chicago! :)

We went to see Erin, a friend from high school who also just had a baby, Eleanor, about a month after Henry was born. It's been a few years since we had seen each other and it was great catching up and getting to talk about the babies. Erin's husband, Jimmy, took this picture of Erin and I with the babies and I love how Henry looks like he's trying to talk with Ellie and she is looking so serious in return. Jimmy said "I want you to keep looking at boys like this for the next twenty years, Ellie... and the drool helps too." :) It was so great to see them!

Then we went to Laura and Justin's house and got to catch up with Samantha. We had just seen them 6 weeks earlier, but the babies had changed so much since then. We got lots of pictures of them together! We went for a walk with the babies in our wraps and a lady stopped and asked if they were twins! This is even funnier because they look SO different from one another -- Henry pale, Sam bronzed; Henry very boyish, Samantha all girl with her ginormous eyelashes.

We got to see Mary and Brianne and their adorable dog, Hershey, who was so good with the kids and made me really miss Teddy. Marcie and her little boy, Louis, flew in from Seattle. Marcie's due in Feb with a little GIRL! And we saw Amy and Jeff and their twin girls, Ella and Sophie, who came in from Cincinnati. Amy is also due in Feb with a little BOY! Jennie and James came in from St. Louis and Maria and Jess were there too.

It was so great seeing all of them again -- it had been a while. I loved looking at Louis, Ella and Sophie and seeing where Henry will be in just a year. They do grow so fast! Hard to believe that next time we all get together there will at least be 7 kids/babies and that Henry will most likely be walking! What a great weekend! Thanks for all getting together guys. I'm so glad Henry got to meet you all!

Naughtiness

We had our driveway repaved a few days ago and about an hour after the guys had finished up and left, I look out our bedroom window to admire the even black color of our driveway and see our neighbor and her little boy walking away from our driveway. Hand in hand. And the soles of his bare feet -- completely black! Then I see the little footprints in the corner of the driveway. I tell Daniel about it and we go take a look. We couldn't help but laugh and take a picture because the footprints were just too adorable. We checked with the neighbor and her little boy was fine; they got the black off his soles with just water she said. The footprints have disappeared now that the driveway is dry, which is kind of a bummer, since I thought it'd be a good reminder to laugh at the naughtiness -- we might just need that reminder soon. :)

Henry update

I can't believe it's almost been a whole month since I've written on here! Henry's growing like crazy (15+ pounds now) and I feel like each day he's doing something he hadn't been doing the previous day. He's screeching a lot lately. He rarely talks in a quiet voice with us. Mostly it's really high pitched screeches. They're really cute and you can tell that he thinks he's really cool that he can make such a loud noise. Plus, we laugh every time he does it, so why wouldn't he want to keep performing?! :) He's also sucking on his fingers a lot lately and, as demonstrated in the picture above, his forearm seems to be quite yummy for him too. I'm thinking if he's a forearm sucker later in life, rather than a finger sucker, he's going to look a little barbaric. Oh well!

He's been quite the traveler, going to Chicago a few weekends ago to see some college friends of mine and this weekend going to Iowa to visit Grandma and Grandpa O'Hara, Uncle Michael, Aunt Kari and cousins for Mason's birthday party. Daniel's back to work this weekend so it'll be another solo car trip with Henry, but he was a rockstar on the Chicago trip so I'm hoping for a repeat performance.

Aunt Emily comes in town next weekend on the 10th! And then we'll be going to St. Louis for Christmas the first weekend in December. It seems so far away, but I'm sure the time will fly now that we're back to work.

I'll post some pictures soon of our weekend in Chicago!

2 month pictures!

We got pictures taken of Henry a few weeks ago when he was 2 months old. They were taken by a photographer, Tamika Garscia, that had taken some baby pictures for a girl we work with and I loved the pictures. She came out to our house and got some pretty good ones. Here's some of my favorites.

You can see all the 130+ pictures she took by going to: http://www.tamikagarscia.com Click on "Client."

Then scroll down and click on "Henry -- 2 months!" Password: Breuer (which is case sensitive so make sure you do a capital "B").

We love the pictures and hope you do too! You can order pictures through this site or just let us know if you want a print. We have a disk with the rights to print. So just let us know and we'll get it to you!

A friend, Laura DeSouza, came over to the house and took some pictures of Henry too. So we'll have some more good ones. So much talent!!! And it's a good thing cause my pictures don't come out nearly as good. :) More updates soon!

The "uh-oh" haircut

Okay so Daniel's hair do. When we got back from St. Louis, our house had warmed up to a nice 90 degree temperature with the AC off for the week. After putting Henry down for the night, Daniel was ready to shed some hair and was wanting me to shave it! I've wanted to try cutting his hair ever since we started dating and the answer has always been "no." So I knew his brain just must be fried from the heat and we got started right away, before he changed his mind.

Daniel wanted about a 4 blade cut -- so that he still had some hair. We knew we'd do it in stages so we could get the funny pictures of mohawk, etc. We got some funny pictures including this one where I told him to act tough. Then he shaved the goatee off. All was going according to plan. I began to shave his head again and "uh-oh" I didn't see that he had taken the blade off!

BALD SPOT! Well once you have a bald spot you have to pretty much have to make it all even with the shortest, i.e. go completely bald! Daniel took it pretty well and was extremely forgiving. As time passed he was even joking: "When people ask me about my bald head, I'm going to say that I lost a bet with my wife. When they ask 'what was the bet?' I'll say 'That she could cut my hair.'"

It's now grown back a bit (probably the 4 blade cut he initially wanted) and I love it! He thinks he's grown to like it too. Sometimes mistakes turn out okay. Especially if you give it a few weeks. :)