Our new day

Egan is almost 2 months old! Over the past few days he has been 'chirping' a lot more and working on batting toys. It's incredible, his newborn time is gone. Now we have a baby. A very sweet baby, no doubt.

In honor of those sweet newborn days, I made a little video. In addition to the maternity photos, we also had pictures taken with Egan when he was 5 days old. These are some of our favorites.



Photography by Isabelle Marchant
Music is You are the new day by the King Singers

And some things never change

Like Elena's outfit selection.



Believe it or not, there is actually a theme to this outfit - everything except the unders and hair kerchief were given to her as 'new big sister gifts.' You can't tell, but even her socks don't match each other. (and the arms is not actually hurt but a 'pretend sling' since a classmate broke his arm and now everyone's arm hurts.) Tami, if you are reading this, it's your hoodie butterfly shirt put on backwards!

A few small, precious changes

We have been pleasantly drifting through this newborn time with our little guy. He's growing and was 8 lb 2 oz at 4 weeks and at 6 weeks is around 9 pounds. We have been rewarded with his first smiles. They are most frequent when he is over your shoulder cuddling or sitting in the kitchen in the bouncy seat; he likes to watch his sister antics. They, of course, disappear when the camera appears. Egan is getting much stronger in the neck and head and has started a daily regime of shoulder push ups. I tried putting him tummy down over the boppy and he wasn't at all pleased with that idea, so we've got a few more week to wait on that one. He has started to make a coo'ing noise, just one sort of an 'ahhhhh' sigh. Unfortunately, he's also gotten his first case of the sickies and has a little eye infection (which involves putting eye drops in four times a day which is lots of fun for everyone involved) and general fussiness (I'll spare you the tell tale 'poop' signs of a virus.)


Almost caught this smile, but the sleeper got in the way.

little opa

And our final week of grandparent assistance was provided by little opa who had an exciting week. He cleaned the fridge, mopped the upstairs, cleaned the bathrooms. In return we took him to an apple orchard and he took elena fishing where they caught a duck (not recommended but the trauma to all parties seems to have passed.) He also got good nap snuggles with Egan and was rewarded with a much more engaged baby, as Egan is starting to see much better.


At the orchard - which is really out of production and our only method of getting the tasty, high apples was to try and 'whack' them with sticks. Very popular with Elena.


It snowed while little opa was here! You can't really tell in this picture, but there were snow flurries.


Elena introduces little opa to egan


Hanging out with the whole gang!