Lazy Days of Summer....

This was our first weekend since Evan's birth at the end of March that Bret, Evan and I have had to just relax! It was so nice to not have any activities planned and just go with the flow of the day.

Evan has the same reaction to long NASCAR races as I do!A little wave hello to Uncle Phil to thank him for his hat. Its still a teeny bit on the big size, but the way he grows, it should be tight next week :).
just hanging out...pay no attention to his extra full diaper that clearly needs to be changed pronto..

2 month check up

He's a growing boy! Evan weighed in at 13lbs 7ozs (a gain of 2lbs 10oz) and was a whopping 24.5" long (an increase of 1.5"). His weight is above the 90th percentile (but I spaced on where exactly he fell) and his length has moved from the 90th percentile at 1 month to the 95th percentile! Since Evan is starting to look like he might grow into a pretty tall guy, the nurse assumed that Bret was really tall (clearly Evan isn't getting the height from all 5' of me :) ). And, after I told her that Bret was not in fact tall, she thought it would be really interesting to see how Evan progressed!

Evan also started on his vaccinations today getting two shots (one in each leg). The poor guy was fast asleep when the nurse came in to give him the shots, and he was not ok with being woken up by a shot. It took me around 30 minutes to calm him down...I'm still trying to calm myself down :).

This weekend...

Evan and I on his big 2 month birthday! Evan sleeping on anyone and everyone :)

jen
sarah

great grandma shirley

meeting kensea

emily coy

katie coy

close up!

SOOO BIG!

i love these...he looks like such a little man!

he is fascinated by the animals on what we affectionately call the death swing. i swear low on this swing is high on all other swings, and high on this swing actually does a complete circle.

Meeting more family

great-grandma mary great uncle jack - this is one of the people that evan is named after. my uncle's name is actually john, but we call him jack.

great aunt jo

Not just another cute picture!

this is more than a cute picture of evan. what is important about this picture is that evan is sitting quietly and HAPPILY. i set him in his bouncer wide awake and thought that i was only going to be able to take my usual 2 minutes or less shower. but as i was showering i kept listening for him to shriek and i never heard a peep (this has NEVER happened..i normally can only shower when he is sleeping). i took a normal length shower, made the bed, AND picked up a bit!! i was so amazed i had to take a picture... and this is what he was staring at the entire time. i guess i picked the right bedding!

I'm BACK!

Its been a bit since I've posted any pictures of Evan (sorry Brian, please forgive me!)! For a bit, I was suffering from severe sleep deprivation. Evan decided it would be a LOT of fun to switch his days and his nights again. I have to disagree...it was NOT fun. We went for a week or so with Evan sleeping only bits and pieces through the night. It seemed like it would take him hours to fall asleep and the second I would put him in his crib he would wake up because he would startle or spit-up all over himself. So, he would get a little bit of sleep in my arms before going into the crib, but I would get zero sleep. Bret would wake up in the morning and ask me how much sleep I got, and 0-2 hours was becoming the most frequent answer. So, a few days ago, after I had tried to get him to sleep for 2 hours and Bret had tried for 2 hours (he let me sleep for a bit since I hadn't slept for 2 days straight....ahhhh!), I decided to revert back to what worked in the beginning...the BOUNCER. Evan slept through the night at 6 days old swaddled in his bouncer. And, it worked like a charm. Evan has slept for at least 5 hours straight every night for 4 nights! I feel like a new person! I'm thinking we will stick with this bouncer technique for a little bit more and then give the crib another shot. Maybe by then, he will stop spitting up all over himself!

Any way...here are some pics from the days that I have been MIA

Evan's first bottle! Ok, not technically his FIRST bottle since we had to supplement until my milk came in, but this is his first expressed breast milk bottle ;). And, there is actually a story to that too. Evan decided he didn't like the bottles that I wanted to try, so he actually took this bottle (finally) using the nipple for the formula supplements that we had from the hospital, and we attached it to a breast milk storage bottle. I ended up taking the Infamil nipple to Babies R Us to find a bottle that had one similar. And, yes, I find it quite amusing that I have used the word nipple more times in the last two weeks than I may have in my whole life! Strangely, since Evan's birth, I can't seem to make it through a day without discussing or mentioning nipples or breasts!

this is him working and not getting anything from the bottles that i wanted to use...

and this is the bottle that we created ;)....he sucked the milk down in no time!

he has now discovered the toy that i put on his carseat. even if he is crying, as soon as i put him in it, he immediately calms down and starts studying it...i just wish i could take the picture without he creepy red eyes! and, i'm just noticing how crazy red his hair looks in this picture! Check out those thunder thighs!!!

Sonia came to visit!!! Sonia just finished her third year of med school at Harvard, and she worked a visit to meet Evan into her break. It was sooo nice to catch up with her since I only see her about twice a year (sad!!), and since she has decided to be an OB/GYN, I had plenty to tell her! She was also a great help. While she was here, I got to shower for longer than 2 minutes and shave my legs!!!

and rachel, bret's cousin, just got home after finishing her first year of college at Alabama. Evan was so excited to see her that he passed out ;).

The weeks are FLYING by

I am putting him in outfits like this until he can verbally tell me not to :). Which will probably be his first sentence...MOM, stop dressing me like this...the other kids will make fun of me! Bret thinks Evan is so happy because he is wearing Bears attire...sure, it has NOTHING to do with the cute little safari animals dangling above his head.