Nana and Poopah

Nana and Poopah have come for a visit

Benjamin's bedroom

Thanks to Grandma and my hard work, Benjamin now has a fully decorated bedroom!!

2 Months

Today Benjamin is 2 months old and he now weighs 14lbs-14oz (97th percentile) and is 24 1/8" (90th percentile) tall! I don't have any pictures to post of him on his 2 month birthday as he is not very happy today. He got his immunization shots and my poor boy has just been miserable ever since! So the following pictures are of him in happier times, playing with his favorite toys. The lamaze block he loves to thread his arm through and wave all around. The sesame street toys makes him laugh as he wildly waves his arms at them and makes them swing.

Our new dog

Okay, it's really still Maully...but she looks like a new dog :) Sam and I decided to shave her to reduce the amount of fur in our pool and our house! Took us 2 hrs - that dog has, or really had, a lot of fur. But at least now her head looks proportional to the rest of her body!

More pictures

Grandma was on a roll with packing....
Such a rare occurance to see him sleep during the day, we had to capture it on camera!

Long awaited updated

Well, we've been a little slow in updating our blog. We've been trying really hard to get Benjamin on a schedule so that he would sleep more during the day (or for that matter sleep at all!) so the blogging fell behind. So to summarize: at his 1 month appointment, Benjamin was 11lbs-10oz and was 23.5" tall (95th percentile for both). We had to return to the doctor 1 week later as he went from being a baby that never spit up or burped to vomitting, so they wanted to make sure he wasn't losing weight. He weighed in at 12lbs-4oz, so no reason to worry! The vomitting was probably just a mild form of acid reflux and now we just keep a lot of burp cloths around when feeding. He has also started to hold up his head when on tummy time and just adores looking at himself in the mirror or watching his mobile. And those are really the only major changes...so enjoy the pictures.

3 weeks

Benjamin turned 3 weeks old on the weekend and celebrated it by doing some new stuff! Daddy gave him his 1st bottle - which he devoured in less than 10 minutes! Although that's not suprising considering how this boy eats. At his 2 week checkup, he was 22.5" long and 9lbs-14oz -- he had gained 14oz in 1 week!! Benjamin also gave us his first smile :) He prefers to save the big ones for Daddy but Mommy and Grandma can get some small ones from him.

2 weeks

Today Benjamin is 2 weeks old and there is not much news to tell :) He eats, poos (8 to 10 times a day!), sleeps (sometimes does 5hr stretches in the night!!), fusses (i have cut out onions, tomatos, garlic and broccoli from my diet so we're waiting to see if that helps), plays happily by himself in the mornings, and just loves to be held and cuddled. We've attempted a couple short shopping trips and he stays fast asleep in his car seat, as long as you keep moving! Tomorrow we returnn to the doctor to find out how much he has grown.

Daddy time

Hanging out with mommy

Our boy just keeps growing! On Wednesday we had a doctors appointment, and they were concerned with his significant weight loss so the lactation consultant had us start doing supplemental feeding with Benjamin for 2 days and to feed every 2.5 hrs. We returned Friday for another weigh in, hoping he met his goal of gaining 2 ounces....and he had put on 11 ounces!! The doctor had to weigh him twice she was in such shock :)

The following are some pictures of Mommy and Benjamin hanging out while poor daddy is at work. Daddy pictures will be coming shortly!

A day at home

1st Bath













Nap time (supposedly)
















Check out the hair!! and we have no idea where this hair came from..

Headed home

Benjamin Thomas is born!

He's here!

here's the scoop:

Marlene's water broke at about 4am Saturday Jan. 20 - we waited around until 8am before heading to the hospital because she wasn't feeling any contractions, and we knew it was going to be a long day.

Induction started around noon, and real labor began around 2pm. After 2 and a half hours of pushing, little Ben arrived at 3:25am Sunday. Look at that head!
Ben was 9 lbs, 0 oz, and 22 inches long. His head looks normalish now. I'll let the pictures speak from here:



more to come! come back often!

2.5 weeks to go

Here is me at 37.5 weeks, carrying our 8lbs-6oz boy.

Almost here...

This boy of ours is definitely getting used to having his picture taken. We were sent for a 3D ultrasound today as my amniotic fluid has been measuring high and our doctor was thinking I may have to be induced next week (at 38 weeks) . The ultrasound did still show high levels, but the genetic specialist couldn't see anything wrong with our boy and since the levels are just borderline high he felt that it is still safe for me to stick with our original due date. However....he strongly recommends not being allowed to go past the due date as baby Waters is now measuring approximately 8lbs-6oz, with 2.5 weeks to go. According to the doctor, I will be giving birth to a toddler :) I've included a couple of the 3D ultrasounds. He refused to move his hands away from his head, so it was hard to get clear shots of his face. He is looking down in both of these with his fist up by his eyes.