Outtakes (eight months old)

I was having trouble deciding what to write about this month, Samuel-wise: he has three new teeth coming in, but I already wrote about teeth two months ago; we have some great pictures of his smiles and video footage of him standing up, but I've already covered those topics as well. Then I started looking through our pictures from the past month and realized we have some great humorous shots of Samuel. In some cases, the photo was clearly posed (note the tell-tale hand at the bottom of the cell phone picture, for example); in others, the picture is completely candid and we probably couldn't have gotten funnier results if we'd tried!

What captions would you put on these? (Leave your ideas in the "Comments" area--I'm sure you can improve on mine!)

- You may remember Samuel's first reaction to eating solid food (see last month's entry): hardly avid enjoyment. As you can see from his interested expression in this picture, he's come around since then; I'd label this one, "Did someone say, food?":

- Of course, some foods (in this case, an overly sour tangerine) still meet with a less enthusiastic response:

- In other news, Samuel had fun trying on Saúl's motorcycle goggles--"Junior Birdman, reporting for duty!"

- In his free time, Samuel keeps a busy social calendar; here he can be seen coordinating his next get-together.

- I don't know what Samuel was actually thinking about in this picture, but it may have been something like, "Yikes, what's that in my diaper?"


- And finally, to sum things up: "Man, am I a funny little kid!"

P.S. Evident in this final photo, if you have really good eyes, is something that will probably provide some laughs in the months ahead: two Dracula-style fangs (Samuel's upper canines, which he is cutting before the usual middle two teeth, possibly just for comic effect).