Just some cute pictures

A picnic at the lake!

Here's Little Stevie and Little Joe taking a rest from playing.

We recently spent the day together at the lake swimming, fishing and eating hotdogs. We all got some much needed R&R.





Babies are busy creatures.  A typical day in the life of Little Stevie:









First he likes to spend a lot of time playing peek-a-boo with or without me.

Then he likes to catch up on some reading.  He really likes Dr. Seuss.

 Eventually he gets around to sucking on his fingers (a habit that is increasingly hard to break).

                 Finally, he settles down for a nice relaxing nap.    
      
               When he wakes up he starts all over again.

Things have kind of slowed down a bit here........

 Stevie is getting so big and learning new things every day.  He's learned to hold his pacifier and put it back in his mouth. He's able to put his foot in his mouth.  He can almost roll over on his stomach (he still needs some prompting though). He gets mad when he sees us eating and drinking. I know he's ready for baby food but I've been putting it off because I want him to stay a baby for as long as possible. But Steve says it's time for him to be a man so I tried giving him a little bit of cereal last night but he didn't like it. Thank goodness! : )
 He loves music and being sung to, getting a bath, getting his diaper changed. He loves girls especially when they tell him how goodlooking he is. But most of all, he loves when Steve gets home from work. Stevie gets excited right away and starts kicking his feet and looking around for his Dad.

Stevie decided to sleep for about 14 hours straight the other night which seems like a good thing but I was so worried about him I couldn't sleep at all.

I took some pictures of him though because he was just so cute and I started to miss him after all that time. Here's a pic of him in the Baby Bjorn the other morning. He used to hate being in this but now he's old enough to be turned around in it and he loves it. I had him in it while I was folding clothes and he fell asleep. He's already skipping out on chores. What a baby!!

Many First Times For Stevie Lately

First time on a plane. He did very well.

First time in the pool. He was confused and couldn't stop looking at the water.

Relaxing with Dad in the hotel.  He was enjoying Men in Black 3

First time at the park!

   Stevie loves snuggling with and eating blankets

He's discovered his feet.

First time fishing with Dad in the river!

So here's the blog I did a while ago!

 

Travis' Wedding on July 14th

Here's the boys with their favorite red-headed uncle!

I tried not to take this personally.

Night Night

 

The Angel's Game!

Here we are at the Angel's game. Stevie was actually happy the whole time until we tried to take these pics. Hate to steal your line Lauren but seriously Stevie? There's NO crying in baseball.

Here we are in SoCal taking a hike. We tried putting Stevie in the Baby BJorn but he hates it so we ended up taking turns holding him the whole way. It was a great arm workout to go along with all the walking : ).

He has inside jokes with complete strangers.......

He is the most interesting baby in the world.

Little Stevie with Charles, one of  Uncle Timmy's seminarian friends. They got along really well.

Just a cute pic of Stevie sleeping in my lap. He looks like a pefect mix of O'Brien and Mudd to me in this one.

This is Mrs. Czyz who lent us a relic of St Padre Pio. We prayed to him for over a year and there you have it, a little miracle here with us today.

Stevie with Grandma and Grandpa O'Brien. He likes Grandpa cuz he patiently listens to him argue...... 

And Grandma rocks him to sleep (So Cute)

Here we are at the Reno Rodeo. We had to leave Stevie at home because it was so windy and cold. I missed him a lot though.  It was the longest I've ever been away from him. 

I think I was standing in a hole here.

Lots of babies being born on the Mudd side right now. Here's Stevie with a couple of his newer cousins. Hannah Jane on the left was born in January, Mary Catherine was born in May.

Hannah wanted to hug Stevie and they were both laughing and playing.  It was pretty sweet.

Here's some of Stevie's older cousins. From the left, Jacob, Sarah and Dominic.