4 Months Already!

We have discovered laughter.

3.5 months old

15 Weeks

3 MONTHS ALREADY!!

We have reached a small milestone. Little man is now 3 months old! Its small in the grand scheme but for the parents its quite the long and joyful journey. Here is what you have missed since then. We are now a great little yapper and now love our hand in our mouth more than ever. Take a look at the pics over the past couple weeks.

10 Weeks old

A couple of new pics to share.

Little man really seems to enjoy sucking on his hand these days. We think he is looking for his thumb but as of now its not really large enough to provide any comfort.

Drew also seems to be entering a growth spurt as he is now eating almost 7oz per feeding up from 4oz 3 weeks ago and 5oz last week.

He is already 60% larger than we when brought him home.

A cute smile to share

Caught our first smile session on video. Its good to have a couple smiles this week since his mommy is going to be leaving him with the nanny for the first time. Mommy is a little sad to have to go back to work, but I think we have the best possible set up for our little man with our nanny share. At lease he is close and in good hands.

2 Months and growing

We just returned from our two month check up with the little man and we were told he is darn near perfect (or totally perfect if you ask his family). We are now up to 12.1 lbs and 20" long which rates us right at the 50% mark of babies his age.


We can now consistently get a smile with a little work on our part and we are hearing some new noises everyday. We are now at the AGUU stage with a couple other cute noises.

8 Weeks and Counting

So we got our first official smiles this past week. It was SO exciting and actually brought moma to the point of happy tears. We were beginning to wonder when they would come.

Drew and Amanda just returned from their first trip to SSI to see Nana and Papa's place and meet some of the fun beach people. They had a great time and came home to see dad after several long days away. We will share some pics from SSI as they arrive.

Drew has his two month Dr appt this week when we see exactly how much he has grown. He definitely feels heavier and looks much longer in length. We will however get our first needle pricks this week with our vacines so that should be interesting.

Almost 7 weeks

Drew is almost 7 weeks old. It is true what they say that they get older so fast. By no means is he old, but we are seeing new things everyday and that gives us more time to reflect on his changes. Some fun new things include losing most of his hair on the top of his head with the exception of a very healthy mullet in the back, a couple new sounds have entered his "vocabulary" and he has increased his little appetite eating double what he did a couple weeks ago.

We had some professional photos done recently which you will see more of as we get them printed and distributed. Drew's Mama is heading back to work in a couple weeks but we have been blessed enough to find an great nanny share. We will be sharing a nanny during the day with one other baby which makes us feel very comfortable and less fearful of all the dreaded daycare germies.....

Question for our audience? Do you think our little man is looking more like his daddy or mommy these days?

I am 5 weeks old

Sorry for the two week delay in new pics. Things have been super busy and our blog editor (daddy) has been on the road a little. Drew is coming into his own. Besides appearing to be much heavier and longer, he seems to be much more alert and aware of his surroundings. He is definitely eating more and filling out, now complete with chubby cheaks. Our one month Dr. appt is this week and we are curious to see how much he has really gained. Mommy is loving the time with the little man at home and has done a good job getting him on a schedule.

Drew's grandma and his Auntie JJ from Boston are heading down this week to meet the little man so we are excited about that.

3 Week Old

As we start week 4 with our little man so far we are feeling very good, super positive and extremely blessed. Drew has been more than a good sport during our first three weeks together. He seems to enjoy sleeping at night (sometimes up to 5.5 hours), eats like a champ and really only cries when there is something that we can fix. Despite the good luck we have had so far, we are keenly aware that we have growth spurts, belly aches and some rough patches ahead where we may not be so lucky with his demeanor. We are enjoying what we have now and ready to roll with our new found enjoyment of being Drew's parents.

I will note that there has a been a theme amongst his parents that we never knew there were THIS many diapers for the little babes. It seems that if you need to do anything around the house you might as well stop by his room and change a diaper while you are in the process of your chore as there is a 97% chance it could stand being replaced. We are still looking for the secret as to how to handle little men when you change their diaper. There has got to be a way to plan for "that moment" when in the process of the diaper replacements the cool air rushes in and we get a little sprinkler on our hands. Any suggestions besides the PP TP?

Lookin more like his Dad everday

I see my boy learns quickly how to do some proper lounging.

Looks pretty comfy if you ask me.

2 Weeks Old!

So nothing exceptional to announce other than our first diaper rash... Poor guy. He seems to have pulled through this without an issue. A couple cute videos and then we are on to diaper change number 2000 of the day. The web says its time for crankier and hungrier babies as we enter week 3... We will keep you informed.

Drew's first bath

On other fronts, little Drew had his first bath at home today. Actually he had it the other day so don't think we are bad parents with a dirty baby... :-)

Although he was not so sure what he thought about this experience he did seem to appreciate the after effects.

Drew is almost back to his birth weight

So after a week of losing weight our little man is almost back to his original weight.

We waited and waited for the milk truck to arrive and finally it did. After losing nearly 13% of his body weight early going from 7lb13oz to 6lb13oz, we have put back on 14 oz over 4 days. SCORE! That's a big success for our little eater. They hope for 1/2 to 1 oz of weight gain a day so 3.5 oz a day in weight gain says that things are moving in the right direction. Go Drew!

Drew and his singing Nana

Santa Claus DOES EXIST!

So its official, Santa has come to town. If you don't believe me just check out the photos to prove it. There is also a nice video of little St. Drew with his Nana singing in the background.

Drew's first Entry

Days 1-5
Drew was born Saturday 12/12. Born with quite a little cone head we are happy to see it return to its normal shape. As you can imagine he has done a lot of sleeping since coming home on Tuesday 12/15. Although he has had his moments of crying it has been manageable thanks to great work by his mommy to keep him fed and the use of "The Happiest Baby on the Block" video we rented from the library.
Simply put it is the equivalent of the Baby Whisperer...
We also decided, to great success and relief of tired parents, to implement the use of a pacifier. We were told to wait a while since we needed to master Drew's latching before we added this but after we saw such great results in his sleeping by allowing him to use it we became a fan.

Attached are some of the recent videos and pictures from the first 5 days.