Skip to main content

Babies are such a nice way to start people



Well I couldn't just leave it at one photo today, could I? Brand spanking new baby and all!

So here you are, another of little Ezra. He's a little one in Henry terms, but a ripper nonetheless.


And another one for good measure. The above photograph is one with a little more perspective vis-à-vis size.



Lest you feel that I am terribly good at setting timers on cameras and then running back with a sleeping newborn, or that Jennifer has awfully hairy arms for an lass, I will admit that neither myself or Henry took these photographs. Yes, the tired-looking bloke above is Me. I'm holding a nude little Ezra while waiting for his bath to fill.

In defence of my sons, I'm tired more through the lack of sleep from excitement, than littlies carrying on. Henry has been an angel (normal evening meltdowns exempted) and sleeps through the night. Ezra is still a little confused regarding night or day, but is quiet as a newborn kitten (especially when contrasted with Henry's foghorn when he arrived on the scene). And no, alas, it isn't even a randy wife looking to add to her rapidly growing brood.

I just couldn't sleep because I am so darn happy.

Labels

Labels:

Comments

Sue said…
Oh Kris...Ezra is gorgeous! You and Jen make beautiful children together!
23 July 2008 at 14:30
Anonymous said…
fifty bucks says you won't stop at 2 kids.
23 July 2008 at 14:41
Jules said…
Kris - so excited to catch up on all your wonderful news. He is such a beautiful looking baby and you have that exhausted/but exhilarated look of a new father!!! Well done Mum too!!!

Congrats to all and
good health and good luck Ezra!!!
23 July 2008 at 16:12
Anonymous said…
Heart-touching photos. Babies are so small; he sleeps 'in your hands'.
23 July 2008 at 19:35
Julie said…
It is the nonchalantly dangled arm that is entrancing ... these are images to treasure.

How about some of mother and baby ...
23 July 2008 at 20:32
Z said…
Warms my heart, it does, to see these photos and read your writing. Best wishes to all four of you!
23 July 2008 at 21:59
Debbie Courson Smith said…
More baby pictures please!
23 July 2008 at 23:50
pussreboots said…
Awww. So sweet. :)
24 July 2008 at 10:38
Kitty said…
That's really amazing. I cannot imagine the happiness.

from your photos I see how photogenic babies can be. Ezra looks like a boxer, or someone else who has been through a LOT.

He is gorgeous.
25 July 2008 at 11:02
Kris McCracken said…
He's a looker all right.

I was worried that the baby wouldn't be able to match Henry's all around cuteness, but I reckon that he has come up trumps.

I'm quietly hoping that his eyes will stay the lovely shade of dark brown too!
25 July 2008 at 13:48
Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...
5 comments
Read more

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...
38 comments
Read more

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...
62 comments
Read more