Moving to another continent could help you get some distance. ;)
At least he left after 15 minutes!

I just accidently wrote to you instead of commenting. Anyway, whoa dude.
I have a crazy brother too.
If it makes you feel any better though, you have a really cute squeezable baby and that shit was hilarious. :-) smile!

oh my god...that picture of him sitting in jason's arm is the cutest baby picture i have ever yet seen. he always seems to have the personality of a much older child in the pictures you post..

WHAT A CUTE BABYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE the one of him sitting on the couch. It looks like he's totally listening raptly to whoever's on the other side of the room--precious!

And really? Fell out of a helicopter? That's sort of impressive...

He makes some of the best expressions, I swear (esp. love pic #1).
You're 1 of SEVEN?? Holy moly.

How rude!

Sweet picture of you and Noah. He has such a handsome, expressive little face.

Don't worry. I have a grandma who used to tell me stories about how the Devil would open up the earth and swallow whole bad little girls who didn't say their prayers. Then there's the aunt who blames her facial scars on a bad reaction to Mary Kay, but she still wears Mary Kay. (We're thinking it's not the Mary Kay.) And don't even get me started on my uncle, who once had his heat turned off but had the nerve to ask my dad for money so he could pay the cable bill. Sheesh.

Or, to edit, A heartbreaker. Because I can really type. Geez.

THE ADORABLENESS!! STOP!!! IT'S TOO MUCH!!

(love the first pic)

in a tree! you're in a tree!

your family sounds really interesting. like, we-want-pictures interesting. *hinthint* at least of your mom and sis, because it sounds like you had fun with them. ;)

AH! BABY! He is too cute and looks a little like Charlie Brown and also? Looks very, very smart.

I have crazy family members too. Two words: Avoid them.

i love the second picture. like "hey! we just happen to be peeking out from behind this tree!"

and my family? totally psycho. except um, we dont speak to each other so it all works out well.

nose? is that his nickname? if so, too too cute!

Crazy families make for very good laughs sometimes (like, hello? your brother seriously fell out of a helicopter!). And everyone has at least one crazee in our families, so we understand. It's all good.

By the way, Noah has the sweetest yummiest wittle baby neck. Isn't it funny when all of a sudden their baby fat rolls away and their necks emerge?

You wouldn't take it the wrong way if I said that in that first shot, Noah looks like an incredibly alert, pot-bellied frog, would you? Because he does, in the best possible way.

Stop making my phantom uterus ache, bitch.

Oh, don't tell me you thought that once you had the baby all the assvice would stop?

Oh d-d-d-dear.

Perhaps your family and my family can get together and go live happily somewhere else. Like, maybe, Kyrgyzstan. Yeah.

When my son was about four months old, I was completely convinced that he was deaf. The loud noises didn't startle him EVERY time, the repeat callings of his name didn't get his attention. I was thisclose to taking him to a specialist, when we discovered: He wasn't deaf. He was just ignoring us.

I'll presume Noah is doing the same. (Says the woman with her own batshit crazy family, including an Uncle Frank who believes Jesus is coming soon. You know, to get us all in his UFO. Please pass the tequila.)

so.... you are saying that Noah doesn't jump to attention when some butthead snaps his fingers? Sounds like a smart kid not a deaf kid to me.

Make sure you walk around the house with Noah while your brother is still there, saying very loudly "YOUR UNCLE IS AN IDIOT!" Because hey, what if he does have a hearing problem? :^)

And also? I am sure Noah is fine (in case that didn't come through)

Take it easy, doll.

Wow, Noah is just getting cuter and cuter! Will it never end?! ;)

I have siblings 20, 18, and 14 years older than I. It's great. The age difference was so great, I was pretty much raised an only child.

Also have crazy family...but no stories quite as crazy as yours. :)

That first picture is so FUNNY! And the picture of the 2 of you, he looks just like you!

And I thought my family was big. There are four of us. And my older sister is seriously crazy. Not institutionalized crazy, but the screaming batshit selfish doesn't listen to anything kind of crazy. My younger sister is similar, but sort of more grounded.

Anyway. Disregard your brother's fears of noah's hearing. Turning your head to listen to snapping noises when the muscles in your neck can't hold up your head yet seems like a lot of effort.

Plus your son is just too freaking adorable to care.

Oh, Ame. He seriously gets cuter every single second of every day.

Your families freakin huge! I come from a fam of 5 and yes, am certifiably crazy. They made me that way.
p.s. Ain't Noah the little poser? Zoolander in the making?

Okay, so I totally wasn't going to say cheesy things about Noah, but Oh My God, he is such a cute baby. Can I have one just like him? Those cheeks, that nose....
Alright, I'm done.....

At least your family probably doesn't involve a dad who comes in at 7am on the mornings you have to be up early belting out "Jeremiah Was A Bullfrog" at the top of his lungs and flashing the lights just to brass you off. ;)

Heh heh. Don't believe your bro. My little sis used to freak us out all the time after she was born. Turns out she was just ignoring us the whole time.

Noah is seriously one of the sweetest babies I have ever seen. He has the most adorable expressions ever!

That first picture of Noah is priceless. He looks like he's sitting for a college graduation portrait or something. He's very grown up looking, for a fella who's not quite 2 months. ;-)

My SIL started with telling me about a month before I was due that my baby would have webbed toes, because it runs in the family. After he was born webless, it became.."Oh, he has a lazy eye" (Because, you know...babies having that cross eyed thing at first will never be corrected) and then he had Pink Eye, because no matter how many times we said he had a blocked tear duct and it would clear up, we couldn't possibly know what we were talking about. My favorite though is when she said he'd have Tourette's because during his first couple of weeks, his bottom lip would quiver when he cried.

Yeah, family is just swell.

Oh, and Noah? in that top pic? Totally looks like he's thinking 'And your point here would beeeeeee...?'

As a long time lurker, I just have to say - your little one is already so photogenic. :)

When my younger sister was born, my mom started getting worried about her hearing. She would call Kirsten's name and Kir would just not respond. Finally my mom takes her to the doctor, who examines her. The verdict? "Ma'am, your baby can hear just fine, above average even. She just isn't listening to you. She's ignorning you."

Haaaaaa!

So take that, Noah's stupid uncle!

Um. I didn't mean you were pretty young (that also) but that you were pretty AND young.

My GOD that is a cute boy!

I can totally relate to the crazy family thing, except mine is with the aunts and uncles and my generation seems to have come through mostly unscathed (except a few crazy cousins, but I don't see them very often). I think everyone's family is weird. I even have an uncle who disappeared years ago, but reappears every so often to egg his ex-wife's house. And, yeah, he's in his 60s. CRAZY.

Just be thankful you have a wonderful husband and an adorable (ADORABLE!) baby and ignore the craziness other family members bring in.

Oh, and I have an even better one. There's a lifetime movie based on one of my extended family members. It's called "A Familiar Stranger".

First of all -- the cuteness! He is so beautiful. Can't STAND it.
Secondly, I think it's all families. C'mon people! Put the FUN in dysfunctional!

You're so lucky, my kid never shows me his neck that much. HE keeps his head up, but it's the bulbous quadruple chin that gets in the way. I love the neck!

Oh, and word on the crazy family front. I was so glad that I'm so much farter from my family now that I have my son so that my family wouldn't do all the crazy stuff that they do to annoy the shit out of me, but then all that stuff with my grandfather happened and I had to be around all of them and GAH! GAH! GAH! and GAH!

You should have a photo caption contest.

My entry for the first photo:
Yeah, right, Dad; tell me another. Sigh.

He really looks like you in the third photo.

and i can back you up.. i was in the hospital at the time that the nurse came back with his hearing results and she said he was perfectly normal.
families! i'm sorry..

If’ you’d like I can send my aunt the “healer” to come fix Noah’s hearing… Oh wait she’s too busy “healing” my other aunt who is a hypochondriac and charging people $160 to learn how they can channel the powers of JC. JC by the way is Jesus, she moves to India for 6 years to study and comes back some healing Jesus freak. Yeah. not sure how that happened either but I do get to share a genetic code with her! Jealous aren’t you?

Oh and on a totally different topic, but somewhat Noah related, my brother (age 14) has a photographic memory and informed my mom this week that he remembers when she used to nurse him. Talk about awkward. My mom is now questioning her choice to breastfeed him. Thought you’d enjoy that after some of your breast feeding struggles.

Keep the adorable pictures coming!

If it weren't for the craziness in our families, my husband and I wouldn't have any excitement at all in our lives. I'm sure it only gets worse once you have children. I'm dreading the nine months of pregnancy that I won't be able to drink at family gatherings.

Those pictures are so sweet.

You are a MUCH kinder sister than I am. I would have told my brother that my perfect baby does NOT have a hearing problem! He's just ignoring you, because you are a stupid, annoying ass! Who responds to snaps around the head? Families! WTF?

Thanks for the photos!! He is so cute......
The only family member who drives everyone nuts is my mother. I catch her saying the weirdest things, and she also, apparently, received her medical degree when no one was looking. She tells everyone my son had colic....... she was living 2,000 miles away in Hawaii when he was a baby, but she's determined that he had colic. Also, an hour is too long to push out a baby. An hour!! When I was in the hospital in labor, I could hear some poor woman down the hallway moaning while giving birth, and my mom snorted and said "that must be some kid giving birth in there." I must have had the most horrified look on my face, and if I hadn't had another contraction I was going to beat her about the head and shoulders until she stopped talking. I have to assume that with giving birth to 4 children, she did it totally without making any noise at all. Right.

just wanted to write back to a fellow queen of everything. your site has been the tool for MASSIVE procrastination lately -- so hysterical! baby noah is adorable. i'm sure he hears just fine... maybe has just learned to tune out annoyingness very early?

Now I will reveal the nerd that I am- I am an audiologist and since Noah passed his hearing test in the hospital I wouldn't worry about a thing. Parents usually know if their kid is not hearing so I would trust your judgement and ignore your brother! Babies just are not developmentally able to consistently respond to sound until the age of about 5-6 months. He's not ignoring you, he just can't always turn when prompted by a sound. Sorry for the unsolicited advice but just thought a heads up wouldn't hurt!

My mom is one of 10 (irish catholic) and her family has some issues. Best example: my aunt, who is in her lte 40s, who is literally crazy, lived at home until her 30s, got engaged, broke it off, annouced she was a lesbian, and now annouced she is getting married - to a man - in 2007. She was not invited to my or my sisters' weddings after she wrote my mother a letter calloing her a bitch and my sister and I skanks. yes, she used that word.

I love family drama. It makes for good material if nothing else!

Noah: super tree-climbing baby!

Oh my goodness. I feel your pain. I have just turned 30 and my mum phones me every day to check if I have eaten, to ask what I'm doing, to lecture me on not ironing my sheets and whoah, if I'm "going to the pub" I shouldn't be doing that because I'm 30 now you know!!!!!!!

Can I just say how many times I have come back just to look at that first picture of Noah? What a cute little guy. I just love his neck. My girl still has more chins than the Chinese phonebook, so I don't get to see her neck very often.

Any time you guys decide you don't want Noah, just send him to me. (No, rest of the Internet, I offered first. Dibs!)