An update on Bart and his awesomeness:

Bart has been working hard at his new job and really enjoying it. In addition to learning the ropes at a new place and working in TWO labs, he has also been wrapping up some work he did at Penn during graduate school. Ironically, he found out that his second paper had been accepted for publication on the day that I went into labor with Miles. He found out after Miles was born and said it was really funny because usually that would have made him smile for days, but Miles was SO much better and cooler than getting a paper published. Take that SCIENCE--my baby is cooler than you! Anyway, Bart has one more paper from his Penn days awaiting approval and then he will be able to focus completely on his new work at Emory. If you are interested in seeing the paper, here's a link:

 
Way to go, Dr. Anderson! I'm so proud of you!
In other news, Miles achieved a great milestone on August 3rd: he smiled at me! This wasn't one of those little reflex I'm-so-happy-I'm-sleeping-and/or-eating smiles. Nope, this was totally a smile that came just from hearing my voice and seeing my face! It made me melt! Below is a video of his latest skill (sorry The Price Is Right is on in the background)


If you haven't already, take a peek at our cute little glowworm below. Also, the video in Richelle's comment is hilarious. AND disturbing.

When I was a child, I had a glowworm:




Apparently I do again:

I know this is kind of a post about me, but this is the cutest picture of Miles smiling with his mommy and it makes me so happy that I'm going to post it! (Particularly since it is a picture of me post-delivery that actually looks pretty decent.) Don't forget to scroll down to see the post below about Miles's first walk.

Yes, we have become those people who only post about their child(ren). Luckily, he is so adorable that there are tons of cute things to blog about. Below is a picture of Miles on his first walk outside. You might think that he didn't like it based on the look he is giving, but he totally loved it--so much that he fell sound asleep, which made his parents REALLY love it.

We don't condone violence in our house...

 

It may not be motion of his own volition, but he is in motion...



Let me emphasize: not child abuse.