2mo check up

Today William weighed 14lb 4 oz and was 23.75 in- so he grew 1.75 in and has gained almost 6lbs since he was born! Gooo baby William! Everything else was fine. he did get his first round of vaccines and when I heard him cry after the first one I started to cry- it was soo sad! I couldn't stand it and he had 2 more shots to go. He yelped, I cried and then it was over. He was so brave. He has the cutest band-aids on today- his first ones. I will post a pic later. It's late for me and I'm tired. We have parent conferences again tomorrow so I'm off to bed. I just wanted everyone to know how big he's getting :-)

Happy Birthday to you!!!!

The birthday boy

Today is the big 2 month birthday! I can't believe I'm typing this while I'm at work (kids are doing a review sheet :-) ) and Chad's taking the baby to the sitter- just two short months ago we were at the hospital. He has changed soo much! I feel like he's getting a little personality and we know what he likes and what he doesn't. I thought this morning as I was getting his bottles ready how cute they were with only one ounce and now he has 5 ounces! He's changing so much, so fast. I want time to slow down. He is the happiest baby and Chad and I can't believe what we did without him. Who would've thought how content we'd be to just stay at home and say "oooo" just to have him repeat it back to you, but I wouldn't trade those moments for anything. It's hard to believe you can love something so tiny so much. Happy 2 month birthday to our favorite, our sweet, our wonderful little William!!!!

Brand new baby
Chad looks like he's holding him so carefully here..you should see him now- what a pro!
He wore this last night and his legs hang out of the bottom. He sits up to the giraffe in the swing- he was so little!!!! Look at his skinny face!
Here's the chunky baby we love! We go to the doctor tomorrow- I'll post with his new stats...I bet he's grown 2 inches!

Happy Birthday Sweet Baby!!!!!!

Happy Friday

What a happy baby we've got!!! Lately William has been such a chatterbox it's so cute, I love it! As he was chattering tonight Chad took a few pictures that were just too cute not to share....

My sister is coming today with her two boys Eli and Cope. I know William will love having some little friends to chatter with all weekend! I'll try to get a few shots for you...

Happy Friday to you from our happy baby.... Have a great weekend!

Week 8- Where does time go???

I won't bore you with the details of the last few weeks, but basically I'm back at work full time (it's OK), Chad's busy, busy doing contractor things, and William is growing like a weed. We have a two month appointment next Wednesday- I bet he's grown two inches! Here are just a bunch of pictures of him with short descriptions....

Oh I forgot his new thing is to try and repeat what Chad says. Chad will say "A- goo" and William will say it back...soooo fun

He loves to blow mouth bubbles- we call him rabid baby.....

Before we leave the house if he's in the carseat for too long he'll fuss. Chad's response- act like the carseat is the Flying Dutchman ride at a fair.... it works I can't complain!

happy baby

If it's nice out I'll spread a blanket in the yard and set up camp for a "picnic." he LOVES it ..I do too until the mosquitoes find us!

Seriously- you can't tell me he's not huge compared to just a few weeks ago....

Here we are playing "Steamroller" (have I blogged about steamroller?)with him. He just giggles and giggles. This is when he firrst started repeating stuff back to Chad :-)

Dad's view of life with William.... he feeds him all the time :-)

This one's dark, but funny- Chad was trying to carry him on his shoulders....

Week 5-lots of pics!

So I apologize for not posting much last week..we were pretty busy and honestly I just didn't get around to it. I am starting back to work this week- well sort of. William will start going to Miss Nicole's for daycare this week and I am filling my week with appointments and getting all of my school stuff together. Hopefully I'll find time to post once or twice a week. I'm going to try!!!

Chad and I looked back at "old" pictures yesterday- he's just changing so much, we can't believe it! He now has a super sweet double chin and is getting a chubby belly- I love it! We're convinced he's longer too, but we'll have to wait until our doctor appointment to confirm our suspicions...

William has started to smile- real smiles, not gas smiles! He'll only give you one every so often, but they will melt your heat! Chad likes to take this blue pillow we have that's squishy and roll it over his feet and tummy and stop right before the head and kind of sing "Steamroller" by James Taylor- it gets a smile 90% of the time...so sweet! He also likes when you hold his arms Frankenstein style and kind of shake them and say "OHHH Monster baby".... someone's ready for Halloween!

This week we went to a birthday party for our friend Shawn- they played Guitar Hero and William just slept and drank a bottle the whole time. I'm glad loud things/places don't really phase him... he did smile and giggle, but it was when Shawn's mom was telling us about someone's accident and how they can't move their legs and can only be off the ventilator for a few hours- he just cracked up and giggled four or five times. Not the best timing, but it lightened the party mode.... and it was adorable- I've never heard him laugh that much when he's awake! Here he is at the party "sleeping"- he kept doing these funny arm things :-)

We met Molly at PeiWei- of course he loved some Molly time! (He did poop on this outfit and it won't come out- even though we have a new washer!) That seems to be his thing these days- poop and stain. Maybe he's bored with the 0-3 and wants to start wearing new things.... But our new washer is fabulous- it's soo quiet- gotta love that!

Last but not least I wish I took better pictures. looking at everyone else's blog I wish I was a better photographer! Why did I not take a photograph class in college instead of ..I don't know distance running, water safety, soccer, horseback riding- the list goes on and on of silly classes I took! Or maybe I could've taken some classes just once like Physics (three times) or Chemistry (twice)....ugh! My advice for new moms- take a photography class while you're pregnant!!!

One month down

I cannot believe it's been a month since William was born!!! It just seems like we've always had him. Chad and I are both falling into the parent routine pretty well- especially for getting up every three hours for the last month! I thought he was getting bigger, but never would I have imagined how much weight he has gained in just the past two weeks. We went to the doctor Friday because he's been fussy, had these crazy bumps on his face and upper back, and we thought maybe it was a reaction to some medicine he's taking for thrush- all in all he's fine, we're not tasking the thrush medicine, but the big news was that he's jumped from the 75th percentile to the 97th in just two weeks!!! That's right he went from 9lbs 6oz to 11lbs and either 5 or 15 oz..I can't remember!, but regardless that's a lot of milk this baby has been putting down- go baby William! No wonder he's outgrowing all of his clothes! What a one month birthday surprise to hear how well he's growing!

he's so cute when he sleeps- he broke out of the swaddle and was twisting in this picture... I'm glad the flash doesn't wake him :-)

To celebrate his big birthday we went downtown to the Dragon Boat Festival- we got there right at the end, but it looked pretty cool. There were teams like the Pirates of the Cumberland (the river that runs through Nashville), the Pie-Rats, and the Slosh Bucklers. Pretty funny. They had team chants and decorated boats. Maybe next year we'll catch more racing.

The family at the river front- just a few weekends ago at the fair you couldn't see his head above the pouch!

We walked down to Boot Country to kill some time- no boots for baby William quite yet. Then we met up with Stacy who was sweet enough to ditch her recommendation letter writing fest :-) to come meet us at Las Palettas. This time it was Plum for me and Strawberry Pineapple for Chad- both were amazing! To top off the birthday bash we went looking fr a new washing machine (ours is getting a workout with all of the baby things- how does someone so small dirty so many things???) and met Brian and Rebecca for dinner at maniacs- what a day!!! Just wait until Month 2 birthday rolls around- oh that's shot day at the doctor, we probably will not celebrate!

Month 1 has been such a sweet time with the baby- I can't wait to see how much he changes in the next four weeks.... maybe he'll be sleeping for a five hour stretch at night by then :-)


Here are a few pictures for your viewing pleasure

he loves to twist around in the swing before he gets buckled in

I'm glad chopped me out of the picture, well my head at least.... hmmm

4 weeks tomorrow!

I can't believe it was 4 weeks ago tonight that we went to the hospital to have baby William. he's just getting so big and time is flying by so quickly! His new favorite thing to do- or the thing I like to do because it makes him not fussy is blow dry his hair. Today I even went and bought a second hairdryer to keep downstairs for him. he loves you to get his hair damp and blow dry it- he just sits there and looks right into the dryer- it's cute...

Here's a few pictures in the outfit wore home from the hospital (thanks again Kack!). We put him in it last night after drying his hair and his legs are so long they stick out the bottom of the gown- You can't tell me he's not adorable and snuggly in it!!!!