Baths, Visits, and Empire

We gave Nicholas his first real bath this morning, not just the sponge baths he had to have while his circumcision and umbilical cord healed. We have no photos, because he didn't like it all that much for the most part, so it took the two of us to both hold him down and wash him. But he's a bit cleaner now.

We do have up a variety of other new photos, however. As we mentioned, Nicholas's umbilical cord came off on Friday:

From Nicholas - Month 1

We've learned to laugh at him, which is an important part of parenting:

From Nicholas - Month 1

And this weekend Nicholas got his second visit from Uncle Brian, who brought along his girlfriend Shayna this time.

From Nicholas - Month 1

Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't note the following. As I was sitting typing this entry, Sarah decided she wanted to read to Nicholas, and grabbed the nearest book. And so, for the last ten minutes, I have been listening to her read, in the same dulcet tones one would use for The Giving Tree or Where The Wild Things Are, Eliga Gould's The Persistence of Empire: British Political Culture in the Age of the American Revolution.