Your Very First Month

My baby Blake... we anticipated you for 9 months and knew our life was about to change greatly, but we never knew just how much.

You have taught us patience, laughter, humility, and most importantly a love that we NEVER knew we could feel. Your dad and I often look at you and ask ourselves how we were so lucky that you came into our lives and we often say how you are our best accomplishment so far.

We look at you and can't wait to see the adorable child you will grow into...the personality you will have... the man that you will be when you "grow up".

If you could understand right now, the one thing we would tell you is to cherish every moment of this wonderful life you have in front of you. I look back in just a short month of your life and I can't even believe how quickly you are growing up... I see brighter eyes, more personality, a bigger body (of course!), and the way you are starting to smile. It quickly reminds me to cherish every second that I get to spend with you, even if you are screaming at 2am because you think the world might end if you don't get a bottle, because you are quickly growing up in the blink of an eye and I don't want to miss a moment!

Love you more than life itself dear Blake! Can't wait to see what comes in the next month!

In case time goes way too quickly, here are a few pictures of where you've been in this short month of your life...

Love, Mom

The moment we first met... 

It was love at first sight!

You had the longest fingers and piggies

Dad was so proud to call you his...you still sleep with him like this now:)

You will always be such a cute little monster to us!

Your very first mail... 

don't worry too much about this when you get older, 

it might not even be around then :)

Your big dog-sister, Wendybird.

She too was in love with you at first sight...

she follows you around wherever you go and checks on you at night in your crib.

Your first month-birthday! May 10th, 2012!

We will see just how big you get next to this little calendar your first year!

Two Weeks Already??

I hear mothers say ALL the time, "cherish every moment because it goes way too fast", and man are they right! I can't believe he is already 14 days/2 weeks/one half of a month old!? How can that be?? It was just yesterday that we were the completely inexperienced parents (trust me, we're definitely not professionals now!) holding a little 8lb miracle!

As you all were aware of our first week fiasco, as we'll call it, the second week has seemed to go by somewhat better and less eventful. Although our sleep is still very much deprived, we're enjoying spending more and more time with "awake Blake" :) It is fun seeing him learn to look at things... supposedly he can only see things anywhere from 12-18 inches from his face :) This makes feeding time so much fun! While this is a lot of fun...he is definitely a growing boy! He is already at 4 ounces per feeding (every 3 hours) and as of lately sometimes we'll think 4 ounces is enough and then an hour later he is STILL hungry! I think we may have a monster on our hands that is definitely going to give us a run for our money :)

Not too many stories of interest in the last week other than his belly button falling off! When we went to his little check up, it wasn't looking like it was coming off anytime soon. So the PA went ahead and put a drying agent on it to assist in it falling off.

The very next night, it was D's turn for the 4am feeding... he comes rushing into our room as I'm TRYING to catch what few Z's I can... and he says "babe! what do I do with his belly button??" Thinking to myself..."nothing... you just leave it till it falls off now let me sleep!!"

When I got into the room he pulls away his little sleeper on his leg and there lies the "belly button" HAHA! he says "no...like what do I do with this?!" I quickly grabbed a wipe on the changing table... picked it up off of little Blake's tiny leg, and tossed it in the trash. He looks at me like "how am I supposed to know what to do!?" haha Not that I know what to do at all either... but it definitely cracks me up how D gets caught up in these little small things. Lets just say that we are NOT keeping the belly button for his shadow box of "firsts"!

Happy 2 week birthday sweet little lion!

2 Week (almost) Appointment

B-man is doing GREAT! He had his 2 week doctors appointment (although he's only 10 days old). He is in the 50th and 55th percentile for height and weight, right down the middle so that's good considering we thought this was going to be a toddler walking out of me when he was born :) I must have just been carrying him in a weird way or something that made him seem larger than he really was.

We are slowly getting into some sort of a routine...lets just say the little guy sleeps for about 3-4 hours...poops once a day or so and then pees at every feeding :) Which is normal...meaning that we go through at least 6-8 diapers a day and most days closer to 10 because the little guy likes to pee right after you put a new one on :) We're quickly learning just how expensive this little man is, but worth EVERY penny!

We had his newborn photo shoot yesterday... and OH my goodness what a cutie he is... I know I'm biased people, but seriously he is irrresistable! Here are a few that I got on my phone while Bryndi (with Brynmarae Photography...she does a GREAT job!) took her pics. I grabbed my phone (trust me, this is no profressional quality here!) at the end so these are all of him sleeping, but there are more that will be up to look at in a couple weeks or so. Enjoy!

The story behind the sock monkey outfit is that D used to have a sock monkey of his own, in fact I believe his mom still has it and he is too embarassed to ask her for it so he could be comforted through the nights here in Denver, and well I saw this adorable outfit on Pinterest and just loved the whole sock monkey thing. I LOVE the way they turned out!

This is my fav of the ones I took... I'm sure I'm going to LOVE all the others from Bryn!

Proud Daddy! Doesn't D look scared?? haha He was! He was terrifed he was going to hurt the little guy.  I also love how Blake has his little toes curled up on D's arm... so adorable!

You see...what Blake doesn't know is that I've secretly already planned to black mail him with these photos in his senior yearbook in high school...you know the ones they have parents send in for the whole  HS to see?? yeah... I've already plotted that :)

We will keep everyone posted of any new things with Blake...even if its his first booger... laugh...giggle... etc :) 

Much love 

~R