One Month!

Ok, so four weeks vs. one month isn't a huge difference, but we're documenting his whole first year on a month by month basis.  Curtis and Amber sent the super cute stickers shown on the onesie below.  We'll post one for each month of Charlie's first year to watch his growth!

Look for more updates soon!

Meighan and Charlie

Four weeks?!?

Charlie will be four weeks old on Tuesday...where have the days gone?  People told me that maternity leave would fly by and that entire days would pass like an hour.  I didn't fully understand this until the beginning of my third week of leave.  Where did today go?  When your life is centered around feeding a baby every three hours, the days fly!

Charlie is such a great baby and we're really settling into a great routine around here.  He's been known to go five hours between feedings in the night (THANK YOU) and is such a sweet baby!  He's also been known to poop immediately following a diaper change and/or bath and occasionally manages to actually poop on one of us...already advanced for his age, that kid. :)

See below for a few new pictures from the past several weeks.  With Cy around, it is REALLY hard to keep up with posting even 1% of all of the pictures!

Charlie is all about taking his bath each night...this is, so far, my very favorite picture of our sweet little boy. 

Cy and his mini-me...

Charlie is changing so much, but remarkably, looks more and more like his Dad each day!



He is working that double chin...did we mention that he gained a full pound in only one week?

Cy's mom got us a Moby wrap while she was here.  We love it!  Note that Charlie's mouth is wide open as he sleeps.  Cy says that's the only thing Charlie got from me. 



Charlie went to a very special little girl's 6th birthday party this past Saturday (Happy Birthday Mal!).  He didn't really get into the action...

He did, however, get a visit from the birthday girl...

In all, we are loving this new addition to our life!

Until next time!

Meighan and Charlie

Charlie is here!

I know I'm a little late in posting this given Charlie is actually 10 days old. Forgive me. I'm typing with one hand while I hold this sleeping angel baby who (knock on wood, cross your fingers and say a prayer) has been going four hours between feedings in the night!

Here's a quick recap: Operation Eviction was a total bust. I tried everything! And I mean everything: acupuncture, eating at a specific Godfather's Pizza, walking like a mad woman and scrubbing our hardwood floors Mr. Miyagi style on my hands and knees. Turns out the only thing that got him to budge was an induced labor last Tuesday! That started as a debacle, too when the hospital called at 5 pm on Monday night to say we'd been placed on the "on call" list given how busy the Labor and Delivery unit was. It's good I was alone at home because I'm pretty certain my head spun around like the girl from "The Exorcist". After an anxious night of no sleep, we were able to go in at our 7:30 am scheduled time (hooray!!!!). I'll spare you the details, but labor and Charlie's delivery went exceedingly well (we're talking post-epidural, here). So well in fact that Cy declared it was "easy" and "so natural". EASY?! FOR WHO?

I digress...I know you don't really want to hear me blap anymore...you just want the goods. So, before I get to pictures of Charlie I just have to tell you how remarkably blessed Cy and I feel to have this darling baby boy and a remarkable support system of really wonderful family and friends that are like family. Life is good!!!

Our first family photo:

Cy took one of his infamous "Go Go Gadget Arms" pictures after my first push!  In this picture, I'm saying, "REALLY?!?"

For those of you who have followed the blog, you know that I hoped for Charlie to look just like Cy.  I definitely got my wish! 

And a couple of pictures from Charlie's photo shoot at the hospital.  He was not even 24 hours old!

Charlie looks so much like Cy in this picture!

Charlie's first big trip out of the house was to Hy-Vee (aside from the pediatrician).  Appropriate given our shared love of food and his ability to eat himself into a food coma.  He was born at 8 lbs. 6 oz and we brought him home at 8 lbs 1 oz.  On Wednesday at the pediatrician, he was already 8 lbs 13 oz!  

I can't get the picture to turn the right way, but decided to post it anyway... :)  He slept like a champ at the Hy-Vee deli!

 

I'll try to be better and post more regularly with less blapping and more Charlie photos.

Until next time!

Meighan and Charlie (racked out and completely unaware of his blogging today)