1 Month Old

Happy 1 month to Evan! It's 4-4-12 & he was born on 3-4-12. It's also Grayson's 9th birthday today. I can't believe Evan is already 1 month old & Grayson is 9 years old. Time is flying by. I made a little cupcake to celebrate. In his baby book, it has a place for a picture for each month during Evan's first year. I thought I would make his monthly pictures festive! This first picture looks like he's blowing out his candle.

Isn't he cute??

As for me, I'm still healing. Some days I really feel it & am still taking Advil. I was hoping by 4 weeks that I would really feel a big difference, but it's about the same as it was last week. I'm much better than I was during my first 2 weeks, but it's slow progress. To help me feel better, I did help Evan eat his cupcake.

Visit with Marie, Bobby & Kim

Jerry's sister, Marie and her husband Bobby & daughter Kim came to visit with us on Sunday afternoon. They got to hold Evan just as he was going down for a nap. He really likes naps when someone snuggles him, so he had a grand ole time.


While they visited with Evan, Vince was busy planting some new trees in our yard. They are a great natural barrier from our neighbors. He did a great job!

Billy & Eddie Visit

Billy & Eddie came to visit us this weekend. They arrived Saturday morning and were hungry, so we ate a chicken pecan quiche that I made for brunch. We then went to Milliken for family day and enjoyed a tour of the complex & free food for lunch. They were particularly interested in landscaping to get ideas for their new house/yard. This was the perfect weekend to look at trees & shrubs because everything was in bloom.

For dinner we took them to Wade's followed by dessert at the Beacon. Just one of those restaurants is enough to do someone in, but after eating at both of them, we were all stuffed to the gills. The brownie sundae at the Beacon was sooo good, especially since I haven't eaten a lot of sugar lately.

Eddie guessed at Evan's name before he was named & he came up with the funny name of Pierpont Fauntleroy. Billy had a onesie made with his name on it.

They left Sunday morning after eating some of my Ebelskivers (banana stuffed mini pancakes). It was so great to visit with them & I'm glad they got to visit with little Evan!

Daddy's Dressing Gown

Barbara found Vince's baby gown that he had when he was born in 1974. It reminds me of an old fashioned Christening gown that babies wore. I took a few pictures of him in it today. He was not in a good mood for the pictures so I was lucky to get the few that I did. The little bib & shoes were also Vince's. It is almost 38 years old, but looks great on little Evan!

23 Days Old

Evan is so stinking cute.

He hates to have a wet diaper. I mean he HATES it. He will cry until it is changed. This means that even if you just changed him & he wet again, you have to change it again immediately. We're hoping this is a sign that he will be easy to potty train seeing that he doesn't like wet diapers. He doesn't seem to mind stinky diapers at all, just the wet ones.

He is becoming more & more awake these days & they key part of that is days. He sleeps well at night & is very active during the day. He usually sleeps about 3 to 4 hours in stretches at night, feeds & goes right back to sleep. In the day, he feeds more often, especially in the evenings. He is also a little bit more fussy then as he's not sure what to do when he's awake. He's a very happy baby.

And he's photogenic!

Visit with Aunt Linda & Uncle Dennis

Aunt Linda & Uncle Dennis came to visit us Friday & Saturday this past weekend. They had never been to my house before so it was nice that they came to see us & the new baby.

We had a great visit with them. Friday night we ate out at Long Horn Steakhouse while Evan slept the whole time. Aunt Linda sang to Evan lots of older songs & he was so entranced with her.

They left on Saturday morning after breakfast to head back to Alabama. I'm glad Evan got to meet some more relatives.

Evan studies faces so astutely like he's trying so hard to understand the language. We figure he'll be speaking by next week.

Cute Baby Pictures

Evan is very photogenic. He keeps those hands near his face all the time & moves his head back & forth a lot so it's hard to get a good picture of him being still. He makes the cutest noises while he's playing in his little box crib. We put him in this little pack along crib near the window so he can get his daily dose of sunshine. He will wiggle his head so much that any blanket under his head is bunched up in about 10 seconds. He will also kick & scoot until his head touches the top of the little crib. I weighed him this morning on his scale & he's at 6 lbs 4 oz! He went over the 6 pound mark quickly!