First Christmas and One Month Old!

Well I hope everyone had a great Christmas! Ours was nice and uneventful. We had a wonderful time hanging out with Josh's family, and look forward to some time with my family in a week or so.

This post is mainly for pictures, as Dave couldn't really enjoy Christmas yet. He slept most of the day. He did get some cute new clothes and a couple of toys that he should be able to play with soon.

He has been holding his head up very well lately and he's starting to notice his hands. Also, he's definitely working up being able to smile voluntarily. I'm really excited about that!

Alright, onto pictures...

As you can see, Dave has recently acquired the ability to focus. And he always wins staring contests, just try him.

Auntie Em with Sophie and Dave. The babies need a little coaching so they look at the camera for pictures...

Officially one month old. My how time flies. Notice his funky hands-he's working on using them for real.

The cousins take a nap.

Dad and Dave. I'm not sure what's up with Dave's fist pumping. He must be excited about something.

Dave in his Christmas bib, commemorating the day.

And here is a short video clip of Dave and Sophie Christmas morning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uozqSaMCz8

Hopefully I'll be uploading more videos here soon.

Activity Galore

This past week we were very busy with visitors and visits. After mom and andrew left, dad and kyra came in to meet Davey.






Dad hanging out with Dave. Turns out his stomach is the perfect "bump" for Dave to sleep on. Unfortunately for Dave, Josh and I don't have this state-of-the-art grandpa feature.






While they were in, we went to the Bowyer family Christmas at Grandma Bertie's. Dave was incredible there, especially with all the people holding him and such. He didn't make a peep! Kind of crazy for such a little guy.







Here's the new great-grandma and Dave.






Also, Dad helped us cook Christmas dinner for the cottage on Sunday. He brought up a huge ham that he smoked on the grill and we made the rest of the fixins for dinner. I think the guys really enjoyed it, plus they received lots of stocking stuffers to open. All of them will be gone for Christmas, so we had to do this a little early.

Our child has a mullet/rat tail. Here is picture evidence. Maybe I should put up a poll on whether or not we cut his hair. I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't cut it, but Josh is awfully convincing in his concerns over Dave's self-esteem.







The rat tail. It looks like a mullet when it's not pinched together.

And here is Dave getting annoyed at our constant pictures...

...or maybe he's not all that upset afterall. I'm thinking he's just a ham for the camera :)

Well, now we have Christmas to look forward to. We're hanging out with Josh's family since we're off Christmas Eve and then going back over on Christmas. Yay for the guys getting homepasses! Otherwise they would be stuck here at the cottage with us. Not that we're not awesome.

Hope everyone has a great Christmas! Don't worry, I will post lots of pictures...

Being 3 Weeks Old is Exhausting

He's three weeks old today, and growing so fast! I am dying to buy a baby scale so I can see how much he weighs now. Unfortunately, we'll just have to wait until his two month appointment, bummer. Even though he is getting bigger he still sleeps just as much, as will be evident from this post.

This week we put up our Christmas tree, which Dave thoroughly enjoyed.









Clearly having an awesome time.












And since he is so impatient, he decided to eat my hand before I could feed him. Not cool buddy.





That was pretty much his only activities of the week. My mom and stepdad came up to visit so he was very spoiled and received more ridiculously cute stuff.

Josh and I started him in his cloth diapers this week. It is going surprisingly well. A lot of this has to do with the really cool diaper sprayer that attaches to our toilet to wash off the poo. It is the most practical baby related item purchased to date. If you cloth diaper, I highly recommend it.

On to the sleeping...







Napping with Dad on the couch. Right after this he punched Josh in the face. Hilarious.










Napping on Dad. Check out the reindeer on his bum.













And the kicker-I caught him yawning. I need to videotape him when he wakes up. It takes about 10 minutes to get him fully awake and he has the funniest expressions as he wakes up.






Well, I'm posting this during the Colts game, so I better get going and give my full attention to Colts domination (hopefully). Mom leaves tomorrow to be replaced by my dad and stepmom. Busy busy!

Two Weeks

So, Dave is officially two weeks old as of last Thursday. It seems that he's been around much longer than that! In a good way of course.

I love this picture. I think you can see what he'll look like as he gets older. I really need to get a less girl cover for my boppy pillow. It's so easy to pose him in it, but I'm sure he'd appreciate a manlier (that's a word) background.

Dave and I went on our first outing together-we headed down to Indy with Josh's mom to bake cookies with her and his sister. The new cousins were able to hang out, well as much as a ten week old and two week old can. Mostly they slept and ate.

In wonderful news, he slept almost 6 straight hours last night! Success. We'll see if he keeps this up, but we've been bribing him for future gifts if this continues. In fact I'm pretty sure Josh promised him the newest gaming system on his tenth birthday the other day. Surely Dave understands how awesome that would be.

We're gearing up for another string of visits-mom and Andrew are coming in on Wednesday and then my dad and Kyra are coming up on Saturday. Everyone wants to hang out up here now that Dave's here. I see how it is :) We also have a family Christmas party to go to, so I hope Dave's ready to get his travel on.

Dave looked cold yesterday, so clearly I dressed him in a ridiculous hoodie that has a hat with ears. And I'm pretty sure he's busting out a new dance move.

Here are the Christmas cuties. I think Sophie was smooshing Dave. He likes his personal space.

Hope everyone has a great week!

The wonderful world of newborn bodily functions

So I know that I've mentioned on here before the crazy amount of times that Dave poops, pees, pukes, etc. However, I feel the need to note that I had to change his outfit FOUR times yesterday by noon. At some point it seems a little outrageous :) The good news is that he has tons of cute newborn onesies that he's getting ready to outgrow, so it's nice to be able to use them all.

He has also been exposed to the greatness of his swing. Loves it. In fact, I think he cries just to be put into it. He lost his umbilical cord a couple of days ago, which was awesome and sad at the same time. That thing was getting nasty.

In cottage news, we officially have a full cottage-16 boys. Thankfully they finally found Josh a person to help him and he started the first day I was gone. Also, our cottage won this lip sync contest we have to put on for a local group. They sang to a hilarious version of Taylor Swift's song Love Story. And they dressed up as girls. Classy.

Alright, on to what everyone wants to see...





Chillin with dad. Notice their color-coordinated outfits? Thanks to Gamma for the super cute Gap onesie.













Big yawn. And his almost outgrown onesies...check out that belly.











I kind of caught a smile! Even though it was probably gas...

Doesn't he look old in this one? I'm always wondering what is on his mind. He has the funniest outbursts while he's dreaming.

One Week Old

Well, we survived the first week! Dave is such a content little baby. He's already working on sleeping hours at a time during the night, which I take as a very good sign. It has been very nice having Josh to help out during the day so I can get some relaxation time in.

I cannot believe he's already a week old. He has changed so much already, I'm already sad to see him move out of his newborn look. I want to cherish all the time now, but am so looking forward to when he's more interactive. You can see I'm completely torn!

Dave had his first doctor's appointment yesterday-passed with flying colors. He is already up past his birth weight, which is awesome. In fact, he doesn't have to go back for two more months since he'd already hit that milestone. Our little porker :) They did yet another test for jaundice, but it came back fine again. I think he must have a yellow tint to his skin or something.

Okay, enough updates, on to pictures!

My fellas taking a nap on the couch.

One week old, you can tell he was pumped to have this taken.













Dave was getting annoyed with my determination to take a Christmas picture. As you can see, he won the battle...hopefully we'll get some cooperation before too long.










I just love this face, plus he's in his super cute outfit that Gamma (my mom) bought him. Everyone's really excited to buy all the little boy stuff now. In fact, Josh and I went out and bought him some hawaiian shirts we saw a long time ago. Now he's all ready for Florida in March!