I interrupt your work day for this newest pic of the youngest Balloon Juicer, from commenter Krista/Redkitten:
Early reports have him “eating like a horse and growing like a weed.”
Continue on with your day.
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[…] To be fair, it takes more than a couple of months to learn how to read. But that’s seriously good disingenuous snark. “I’ve come to learn that if Palin is involved in anything in any way, shape, or form, then the chance of batshit insane things happening increases exponentially. Even if it’s her dictating her “life story” to a ghostwriter. She is like the King Midas of batshit crazy.”—Balloon Juice […]
Comrade Mary
OMG! OMG! OMG!
#explodes in a cloud of ovary dust#
Comrade Mary
And mother of God, that’s a real smile, not gas. How old is he now?
Gunner
Not only growing like a weed, looks like he’s been smoking it as well. What a cute picture!
Colette
AAAAAWWWWWW…
– dies of cute overload –
Molly
Oh….my….goodness, what a CUTIE!!!!
He’s beautiful.
Napoleon
I think Bitsy has been out cuted.
qwerty42
what a wonderful picture. best to mom and the family.
Martin
Holy shit he’s cute.
James K. Polk, Esq.
PSA: Don’t feed your baby LSD. Although they do look adorable while high, you might cause serious brain development issues.
canuckistani
That’s one prime baby. Does he laugh when you go PHHBLBLBLT on his stomach?
Genine
Wow, he is such a cutie! And he’s getting so big! Congrats to Krista and her whole family. :-)
Ash Can
LOL! What a great face! He’s Mr. Personality, isn’t he?
Kids are a lot of work, but they’re totally worth it.
asiangrrlMN
Aw, Little RedKitten is a doll-baby!
Thanks, Cole, for the brief respite from the crazy political world. Oh, Krista, Sammy is just precious.
Punchy
Cleaurly hauving trouble pronouncing all thouse “u”s in that damn language you caull Canadiun.
flukebucket
Man it is hard to believe that is the same young’un pictured not so very long ago.
He looks like he just watched Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh!
Mark S.
He’s adorable!
Cruel Jest
An 11 on the Adorable Scale. The last time I was that happy about anything was 1967. Yeah, I’m jealous.
Betsy
Yaaaayyyy!!! Cute baby is cute!!!
MikeJ
AS cute as the child is, the first question when children are introduced to a political context is, “what kind of counter tops does he have?”
R-Jud
So I showed the Bean this picture. She lunged towards it with an open mouth, slobbered on the screen, and then did the happy baby flap. I am pretty sure we have a winner.
(Seriously, Krista, he’s so cute. What’s he smiling at?)
2th&nayle
Haha! Whata cutie! Congrats, Ma & Pa Red Kitten!
Jay in Oregon
What a darling. :)
A Mom Anon
He’s so cute it’s dangerous. Heehee,I love that face.
Morbo
That is an awesome smile, congrats.
I definitely did not get enough sleep last night as I read those similes as “eating a horse and growing weed.” Very industrious.
Carnacki
You can just smell that New Baby Smell coming off him. What a delightful baby.
Citizen_X
Nice head o’ hair already on that young chap!
asiangrrlMN
@Morbo: The latter is probably why he’s so happy.
By the way, you must be pretty stoked (as a Lions’ fan).
J.D. Rhoades
@canuckistani:
Doesn’t everybody?
licensed to kill time
That is one happy lil mofo, ay? Seriously, he’s got great character in his face already, very charming!
@James K. Polk, Esq.:
This made me snort. NO , not like that!
Face
Holy crap. He looks just like John Cole. What the….?
martha
OK, I think I can survive for the next 3 hours on that injection of pure, unadulterated cuteness and joy.
And I can smell that incredible smell of “young baby” too…wowee. Sweet, smelly, earthy. Heaven.
Face
Holy crap. He looks just like John Cole. What the….?
fester
Ahhh — almost as cute as my 9 month old (officially cutest baby EVAH!)
He looks very happy, and it is so much more fun to parent when they can respond to you
Comrade Mary
@J.D. Rhoades: I do when my boyfriend does it, but I shouldn’t encourage him.
Bubblegum Tate
Wait, he’s eating horse and growing weed already? Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
Tsulagi
With that look I’m guessing he sees lunch approaching. Both of them.
The Grand Panjandrum
Was that picture snapped as Andre Caldwell caught the game-winning pass?
Dave Weeden
Happy, healthy, and cute – what more can you ask for? I thought horses ate hay and babies drank milk, but I’m willing to told I’m wrong here….
JHF
Thank God babies are almost always cute! I mean, if they were ugly, some of us wouldn’t be here, right?
Personally, I’ve had a rather astounding epiphany this weekend that allows me to stop worrying about politics, the environment, and the human race in general. Not for everyone, obviously, only if you’re a goddamn mystic, which I finally accept that I am.
Charity
Oy, the cute! <3
The Saff
@Comrade Mary: If memory serves, Sam was born August 14. I remember because I was bored at an August 13 Jimmy Buffett concert and was checking Balloon Juice on my iPhone most of the concert. John kept providing Krista updates that evening.
Wow. A whole lot of cute in a little (yet growing) package. Excellent job, Krista.
Elroy's Lunch
Way cute little bugger. I’m thinking that based on the direction of that enthusiastic look he’s checking the BJ Lexicon to ensure that his mom’s classic
post is listed.
Skepticat
I’m not generally a fan of children, but here I’ll make an exception—and I’m going to keep a copy of that photo on my desktop to refer to when I’m glum. That isn’t a bland baby face, he looks as though he has a fully formed personality and much wisdom. A good, progressive, cheerful, upbeat personality. Good on you.
JR
Super cute, sure — but WHERES THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?!
J.D. Rhoades
Exactly. It’s what keeps normal people from strangling them for waking up and screaming every 45 minutes.
trollhattan
Awwww, cute bebbie, just spotted moose and squvirrel?
Congrats to mom, cute bebbie and the entire fam.
scav
whew! I think I found a reason to struggle on to tomorrow. Just in time, I might add.
Keith G
Hooray Samwise! What a joy. Smiles out to the RedKitten family. Thanks for the update.
RedKitten
Yep, he was 6 weeks old on Friday. We just had his 6-week checkup today at the pediatricians, and he’s just a smidge over 12 lbs, so he’s growing well and is very healthy.
Thanks for all the kind comments. :) And no, he doesn’t grow weed — right now, he’s still more decorative than useful. Maybe when he’s two…
wasabi gasp
First a cat, then a dog, now a kid, man, you’re some swell kinda guy. I just hope the baby doesn’t soften your killer instinct the way Dexter’s crap factory is dulling his. That’s exactly why I don’t have kids.
geg6
Krista, that Sam is the most adorablest child evah. What a face! What a smile! Smoochiesnorglemph on his little belly for me, okay?
John Cole
All he does all day is breast feed and sleep. Of course he is smiling.
IndyLib
He’s a darling Krista.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
OMG he is adorable! What a sport!
IndyLib
grrrr-argghhh, hate no edit on FFMac
He’s a darling, Krista.
Betsy
@John Cole:
Spoken like someone who has spent very little time around babies.
I tried explaining that to my good friend’s colicky newborn, but she was skeptical.
Me: “Don’t cry! You don’t know how good you have it! Don’t think it’s gonna get better than this!”
Her: “AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH”
licensed to kill time
OT, but BJ just went down for the last half hour for me – wha happen? (and Krista, your baby Sam is just tooooooo dang cute for words! Enjoy these new baby months, they go all too quickly, despite the lack of sleep and all.)
Demo Woman
What a doll. I do love RJud’s comment, Bean has good taste. At twelve pounds, he should start sleeping a few more hours during the night. Wahoo!
What a nice surprise for a stressful Monday. Thanks Krista for sharing the picture with us.
Dreggas
that pic needs a caption…something along the lines of “I see what you did there”.
PurpleGirl
He is some seriously cute. Best wishes for the whole RedKitten family.
Martin
Eh. Cole is just jealous he doesn’t get as much sleep and breast feeding himself.
MikeJ
Any idea which plugin does comment edit here?
steve s
“Exactly. It’s what keeps normal people from strangling them for waking up and screaming every 45 minutes.”
Just going to Wal-Mart and hearing one shreik for 5 minutes is enough to make me murderous.
http://peopleofwalmart.com/
Joey Maloney
Lovely baby. May he always have reason to smile like that.
Not as competition, but here’s the only picture you’ll ever see of cute teabaggers. (SFW, don’t worry.)
spudgun
@Skepticat: I don’t tend to think of myself as a fan either, but then I see a face like this and get a major attack of the “squees”.
What a cutie-patootie!!
licensed to kill time
@steve s:
Gawd, what a funny site! I was killing time chatting with a doctor in Mexico while we people watched on the street. He idly asked, “Why do Americans dress like children?”
I had no answer beyond “comfort”.
HRA
Great pic of a handsome baby! The personality is so evident. Congratulations Krista and family.
SGEW
Blaargh! Too ridiculously cute. There oughta be a law.
It makes me feel good about the continuation of our species; surely we deserve to survive if our spawn are that god damned adorable.
JK
Adorable baby
John,
For long stretches of time over the weekend and for a few hours today Balloon Juice failed to load on my computer. Is migration to a faster, more reliable server on the horizon?
Anne Laurie
Gingers for the win! He’s adorable, RedKitten. But here in this political blog, his expression does remind me of the old Central European joke about predicting a baby’s future profession… did Sam lunge for the coin, the book, or the bottle?
Anne Laurie
@JK:
I second that question! Just in case anybody thinks some people get special privileges, WP still won’t let me edit the Lexicon. Which is killing me, if only because I can’t sneak in & correct the typos…
jeffreyw
@Dreggas:
With apologies to redkitten if I overstepped.
Svensker
Wouldn’t we all love to be THAT unjaded and so full of pure joyous enthusiasm?
Precious, precious, precious.
Sqqqquuuuueeeeeeeee, also.
Bad Horse's Filly
OMG! Cutest baby evah! That really added sparkles my already pretty bright day. You guys did good. Amazing what you can do when you cook from scratch.
MK
I miss the socks.
asiangrrlMN
@jeffreyw: Snort. That was funny.
Krista, I keep sneaking peeks at little Sammy. He’s a bright spot in my otherwise gloomy day. Congrats again!
gnomedad
Separated at birth?
R-Jud
@licensed to kill time:
I have almost never been so uncomfortable as when we were about to take my parents to a restaurant, and I had to ask my Dad to change out of his shorts and sneakers.
I almost felt like Lord Whimsy: “Have we in effect become a nation of infantalized man-toddlers?”, but I lack the sideburns and the bog garden.
freelancer
@steve s:
@R-Jud:
Y’all just killed an hour of my time. And WTF is up with the phenomenon of white trash gluing TOYS TO THEIR FUCKING CARS?!
J.D. Rhoades
If it was hot, I’m with your Dad on this one.
All the answer you need, bro.
freelancer
Also, Dave Weigel has some bombshells, via ThinkProgress and Sully:
Wow.
Da Bomb
Redkitten’s little kitty is such a cutiepie!!
What a nice way to end the workday!
JK
@freelancer:
And Peggy Noonan’s response to this would be “Just Walk On By”
freelancer
@JK:
And Cokie Roberts would say that their position is “interesting”.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@freelancer:
I gotchyer prayer right here:
“Dear Lord, please rapture these idiots up into heaven right now, before they get any more innocent people killed. I don’t care if they don’t deserve a ride on the big sparkly escalator to the fluffy cotton-candy cloudland Macy’s dept store shopping spree and Dollyworld fantasy in the sky. Just get them out of our hair, and take them to a better place where they can be truly happy, so the rest of us left-behind folks can get on with all the tasks we have cleaning up the messes they made in this vale of tears, without them constantly getting in the way and making things worse. Amen.”
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Also, cutest baby picture ever. Good job, Redkitten and family!
Shell
Ah, an old soul. An old, happy soul!
Max
@freelancer: Per teh Twitter, Dave is going to be on Ed, starting in like 10 minutes.
P.S. Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue: An American Life will be out 11.17.09. Sweet jesus.
Midnight Marauder
So I just came across this little golden nugget while browsing around HuffPo just a few minutes ago.
It’s the annoucment of the release date and title of Palin’s “memoir.” I think the commentariat here will very much so enjoy the title she selected:
Yet another milestone for the ever-evolving entity known as the Republican Party, the farce that cannot be parodied.
Jay C
What a face!!
SOOOO cute!
Congrats and best wishes!
freelancer
@Midnight Marauder:
Unless she went full farce and decided to write about Anna Paquin, I’m not interested.
It’s gonna be a ghost-written handjob to the Liberty and Tyrrany crowd.
If she did write it herself, I’d stand in line.
for a midnight release.Wow did that sound wrong.
gnomedad
@Max:
I’m sure she can’t wait to read it.
Jay C
@freelancer:
Gen. Boykin: wasn’t he the dude who opined that we would be successful in Iraq because “Our God” was “bigger than their God” or whatever…..?
Whatta maroon.
Midnight Marauder
@freelancer:
Absolutely correct on that one. But nonetheless, I’ve come to learn that if Palin is involved in anything in any way, shape, or form, then the chance of batshit insane things happening increases exponentially.
Even if it’s her dictating her “life story” to a ghostwriter.
She is like the King Midas of batshit crazy.
Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman)
@RedKitten:
But, but…aren’t you Canadian???
From reading NRO and the rest of the right wing blogosphere, I thought it’d take 3 years to get an appointment for his six month checkup…
Snark aside, congrats and may mother, father, and son have many happy moments together.
DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)
He’s eating a horse and smoking weed? Dayum, he’ll be playing hockey in no time! ;)
What a handsome little guy you got there Krista!
Anne Laurie
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
LOL!
(Altho you may have outed yerseff as a Grey’s Anatomy watcher… )
Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman)
Forgot to add:
It looks as if he’s already learning to say ‘Eh?’. :)
SiubhanDuinne
Somebody else said exactly what I was going to observe — he has so much wisdom and seems to be an Old Soul.
Plus, of course, he is SQUEEEEEEEE cute! Truly beautiful and adorable, your little Samuel Kitten. Please keep supplying us with pictures as long as you’re okay doing that. I for one would love to watch him grow (but would nevah EVAH want to jeopardise his privacy).
Thank you, RedKitten/Krista. What a wonderful treat at the end of a long hard work day.
Joey Maloney
@gnomedad:
Stay on the line, please, so we can make sure you get the internets you just won.
Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman)
This thread is proof of the old saying that it only takes a baby/puppy/kitten to reduce rational adults to a squealing immature mass. :)
Though if I have to lose my maturity, there are worse things to ‘squee’ over. :)
All kidding aside, God bless you and your family.
Carrie
How adorable….almost makes me want to have an other.
Congrats, Krista, he’s gorgeous.
Xenos
Kate, my 2 1/2 year-old, confirms that Sam is a cute baby. But then she thinks all babies are cute, so perhaps she is not the best judge. But she squealed and ran off to play with her collection of baby dolls, and that makes for high praise.
andrea
That is one cute baby. Does he have a favorite hockey team yet?
General Winfield Stuck
Well, the DSL Gods have just let me back on the tubes to see this beautiful bouncing baby boy. Happy as a clam he looks to be. Great work Krista!!!
Emma
Beautiful! Just what I needed after a miserable day at work!
spudgun
@Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman): Oh, puhleez, you know you want to…come on, let’s hear you say it:
SSSQQUUEEEEEEE!!
I knew ya could…
Warren Terra
I’m late to the thread, and I didn’t read much of it, but I just wanted to add my judgement to the consensus: that picture is absolutely adorable.
It would appear, ma’am, that you make great baby.
Bad Horse's Filly
@Anne Laurie: Yes, I did watch Grey’s, why do you ask. ;-) But of course I could not resist…I do run a cooking blog, ya know.
Free At Last
@RedKitten:
What a beautiful smile! And my congratulations to the photographer – it’s not easy capturing one of those early smiles before it fades into a lopsided goofy look.
RedKitten
@SiubhanDuinne:
Hell, the way kids are now, I’ll be lucky if he’s not posting pictures of his dick online when he’s 13.
Srsly though, I’ll keep up the pics for now, while he’s still eliciting “squees” from you guys. When the squee-ing tapers off, we’ll know it’s time to pack it in (mind you, by that point, we’ll hopefully have another, who will hopefully be just as cute.)
auntieeminaz
That baby is pure joy personified.
Zuzu's Petals
I’m thinking you might have a little redhead on your hands there …. ?
Dr. Squid
I’ll see Redkitten’s little ‘un and raise you my next daughter who should be out by this time tomorrow. Film at, well, some time tomorrow.
Dr. Squid
I’ll see Redkitten’s little ‘un and raise you my next daughter who should be out by this time tomorrow. Film at, well, some time tomorrow.
Anne Laurie
@Dr. Squid: Wishing you & your family the best, Dr. Squid! Keep us updated!
asiangrrlMN
@Dr. Squid: Oooh, good luck! Another Baby Juicer about to be born.
keestadoll
OH GOOD LORD that is one adorable kid!
Demo Woman
Krista, I think that Sam is a future astronaut.
Doctor Science
Fatal … levels … of cute … detected ….
cj
I think he sees a titty.
Delia
I think Lily has been outcuted. That’s one darling baby there.
Lesley
Very cute ecstasy.
Obama Death Panel Chairman (formerly glocksman)
@Delia:
my
Impossible!
Dog cuteness and human cuteness operate on different levels.
While Little Bitsy and Lily are cute, they aren’t cuter than my my Haley.
That said, little RedKitten is going to need a big stick when he gets older.
He’ll need it to knock some sense into all the adoring females trying to club him for their own. :)
bernini
…this is an opportunity for “balloon juicer” to be added to the BJ Lexicon.
Congrats to the parents, super cute kiddo.
pika
Now that is a cute bebe. Apparently, this is his expression after seeing garden-variety-sized cats, and then seeing Tunch.
twiffer
almost as cute as mine. [grin]
Comrade Sock Puppet of the Great Satan
“Spoken like someone who has spent very little time around babies.
I tried explaining that to my good friend’s colicky newborn, but she was skeptical.”
Colic is miserable. I still have a repetitive strain injury from trying to rock my then apparently demon-possessed spawn to sleep when they were colicky.
It went away after we got him on solids. Then sleep returned. Precious, joyful sleep.
RedKitten
@Comrade Sock Puppet of the Great Satan: No colic yet, fortunately. Evidently I was a very colicky baby — Dad was tempted to pitch me out into the snow on more than one occasion.