Old Friends and New

Some good friends of ours came out for a visit last week.  They have a baby girl who is three and a half weeks older than our baby, so it was really fun to see them together.  We spent some time in Winter Park and some time at our apartment.  It was really snowy and pretty cold here, so we didn't get out as much as we'd have liked to, but we did have a great first game of bowling! As you can see from the pictures, we had a blast, but whoa was it busy having 3 kids under 2 in our life!

Dads holding babies

Some get to know you squirms in the gym!

The end of our walk, which involved taking three steps, throwing snow, taking three more, throwing snow...you get the idea

Finally figured out the Ergo Baby

Mommy-baby selfie

Nothing like holding his hand!  

Bowling Alley Nap

This blue square was perfectly placed for E to watch everyone bowl from.

It was amazing how much the babies loved just hanging out.  We tried things like this...

But their favorite thing was to just lie next to each other and squirm!

B figured out they had a "wiggle button" and they would go nuts for him!  Mostly she would, and he would watch her go nuts, but it was adorable!

They often inadvertently held hands.

We took him out for a brief walk in his amazing red snowsuit.  First off, it's 0-3 months but seems like it would fit him in a year.  We'll see.

Second, it was so fun to lay him down in the snow and look at him.  We laid him down on a slight incline to take his photo, and he just slid a few feet!  Then after he stopped, he sneezed and slid some more!  B caught him mid-sneeze.

Then we decided it was too funny and we had to catch it again on camera.  You're welcome.

She wasn't happy about the snow, but we just haaaad to get this picture!

Maybe it was her hat in her face, actually....

Nothing like two newborns to make a 23 month old look HUGE

Happiness

 At one point, I was alone with these two yay-hoos.  We started out happily squirming.

 Then I decided to try tummy time.  A was very happy to just lie there and watch her lift her head like a champ.  Then she faceplanted and started crying.  Then he started trying to lift his head, which made him cry.

Then pacifiers saved the day.

We are so lucky to have had so many visitors and to have friends who are willing to travel even with two kids under two!  We hope they had as much fun as we did!

The balloon

We've had a few difficult evenings with our baby, who apparently learned about the witching hour from his 9 week old friend who came to visit (more on that soon! he also learned how to talk instead of grunt!) and decided to try it out for himself.  But two evenings ago, just as he was starting to fuss again, dad pulled a balloon down and put it in his face.  This balloon is from my work baby shower in December and it's a miracle it's even still up.  Then dad put the balloon string in his hand, and we got to watch as our baby was mesmerized by the floating thing that goes up, not down, and learned that when he pulled on the string, the big floating thing came closer.  Sorry for the poor quality of photos and video, I wasn't about to miss the experience just to adjust the lighting in the room.

Tracking, smiles, and first snow

We got our first confirmed smile on Valentine's Day, in the morning after he had finished eating.  We were both looking at him and so it was really special to us that he smiled at both of us.  Since then, we've gotten a lot more smiles, but they're so special that we don't want to look away to grab our camera.  At least not until yesterday, which was Grandma's birthday.  I finally resolved to get one on camera for the occasion, and after about 15 minutes of making ridiculous faces and noises, captured a semi-smile.

Smiling for Grandma's birthday

He smiled at Freddy immediately before I got this, but I missed it.

On weekend mornings we like to take it easy and have our breakfast in bed.  Dad caught a few photos of the ritual.

His feet will kick and he'll try to stand up sometimes.

Cuddles

Keeping both eyes open is tough!

First snow on his face!

The first time he made an expression for me while taking a photo

Busy in his gym

After our first trip to library story hour

He smiled at Freddy right before I snapped this but didn't quite catch it.

Love this

And this

1 month photos

Dad took some photos of A around his 1 month birthday.  We're not exactly a family of precision here in Bridgelandia.

Favorite time of day

Our favorite time of day is the 45ish minutes between when dad gets home and the bedtime ritual begins. Tonight A actually was asleep for it, usually he's still wide awake. Tonight dad read aloud from his book while A played the cuddlebug role. Dad's the best.

One month

A and i went for his one month appointment. He is now 22.25 inches long, in the 80th percentile for height. He weighs 9 lbs 14 oz, which is 50th percentile. His head was 14.75 inches around which is the 60th percentile. He got one shot today which he took pretty well, considering.

After he finished being weighed and before i could get his new diaper on, he managed to require a change of paper on the table.

Another exciting one month event was that he had his first major blowout. It was the first time he seemed affected by the state of his diaper; he was none too pleased.

Big day!

The fourth week

Our little man is already four weeks old!  The time is absolutely flying by.  I saw a newborn baby last Friday who looked like A did when he was born, and I realized that he has changed so much since then!  He's put on 2 pounds, is awake for longer stretches during the day, is MUCH better at eating, and has started to track things with his eyes.  My dad was holding him this morning before heading back home and I walked around him and A watched me the whole time.  It was pretty awesome.

He also woke up one day and was just too big for newborn clothes.  He's probably too big for newborn diapers as well, but we have a bunch left and I'm just trying to use them all!  It's not that I'm clinging to him being tiny and I can't let go, nope, not at all.

He's also been getting better at sleeping.  He almost always gets at least one stretch of 3 hours of sleep per night, but last night he slept for almost 6 hours.  His progress doesn't seem to be linear, but more of a peaks and valleys pattern, but it's a general positive trend.

He's now met all of his grandparents and he has been cuddled and loved like all babies should be.  He loves it when grandparents visit!  Unfortunately most of the ones from Grandma and Grandpa's visit are on Grandma's camera, so we didn't have many, but we had fun exploring Boulder and Louisville. Grandpa Steve was here for the weekend and we enjoyed the 70's weather with a hike.

Anyway, some more photos!

Getting their snuggle on

Grandpa's first look

Too tired to fully greet grandpa first thing in the morning...must take after his mom

First hike in the ergo baby

Red Rocks loop

Sunshine canyon

Family photo

SO stoked about the hike

Dad leaves for work before we wake up sometimes.  Before we wake up for the third time, I guess we should say