I am pretty sure I have caught up on everything for now. We leave Thursday for Athabasca, AB for a friends wedding celebration then we will be home for a few weeks before heading back to Idaho for Darrell’s cousin’s wedding. After that, we will be taking a much needed breather and sticking around the house for a month before a trip to Arcata for the MLJ reunion (still thinking on that one).
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Darrell and I usually go to the zoo in whatever town we are in. It has just been something we have done since we got married and is a nice little walk around area. We knew we wanted to take our children to the zoo many times a year so we went ahead and bought memberships and took Edward to the zoo for the first time. We were joined by Doug, Julia & Colin. It was a nice day outside and there was a lot of people there, so we just slowly meandered around and stopped to feed Edward every now and then. It was a nice little afternoon and we only saw about 1/4 of the zoo (if even that) so we know we will be going back a few more times. Right now there are Jaguar cubs, Lion cubs and Otter pups at the zoo which is probably a big draw for the zoo right now. The Woodland Park Zoo has Zootunes every summer where they have performers come out and play. We weren’t sure if we were going to be in town but were excited that Trombone Shorty was going to be there on Wednesday (today). Unfortunately, by the time we realized it, the tickets were already sold out. 🙁 We got to see him in New Orleans and he is amazing if you ever get a chance to see him you should go.
Time has just flown by. I can’t believe that he is already two months old. I can still vividly remember giving birth. He has grown a lot in the last month. He is now 25” long (off the charts for height) and 13#9oz (90th percentile). He has slowed down weight gain and is only gaining about 1.5oz per day instead of the 2oz/day he was at 1 month. He is starting to outgrow a lot of his 0-3 month clothing. Some of the 0-6 month we have are starting to fit him nicely which makes me doubtful that we will end up being able to use them when he is 6 months. I need to go through his clothes and put away the ones he outgrew and prep the next ones as I only have up to 3-6 month out right now.
He is starting to smile more and more on purpose and in reaction to us. I love it! He is getting the cooing and the giggling going to. This boy has truly wrapped me around his little finger. (I’m pretty sure Darrell is wrapped around the other one as well. :P) We love getting lots of photos of him (as I’m sure you can tell), the downside is that he doesn’t know what to think of the phone. He will be smiling and giggling but as soon as he sees the camera, the smile turns into a WTF face. We are trying to get sneakier about getting photo and video of him smiling. It is definitely hard to get a good one. Thank goodness we have digital photos with the amount of photos we take.
Edward has got a bit of a tummy, so we had to pull the cloth diapers out a snap. Makes me happy he is growing but sad that he is growing so fast. We have also found out that he sleeps much, much better on his side than on his back. Once we started putting him on his side, he started sleeping for anywhere from 5-7 hours at a time at night. It makes this momma happy that I am getting sleep! The only issue we have had lately is that he goes down for naps just fine during the day. but once it hits about 6pm until about 10:30-11, he is nursing every hour and refuses to sleep. He gets cranky and just seems like he has hit the stage where he is so tired he can’t sleep. We are definitely working on that and I hope it gets better. We are a little tired of one of us trying for half an hour, the other one trying for half an hour and then the first one goes back for another half hour before he finally goes down. Then it is easy peasy until the next night. He wakes up and gets a feeding between midnight and one and then doesn’t wake up until between 6-7. Eats and goes right back down until 9am. This is a lot like he was in the womb as he use to have his “dance party” every night around 9pm.
He loves holding his head up and ‘standing’ on us. We have also found that he likes sitting and facing forward so I usually hold him on my lap facing forward a lot and he will just sit there and look around while gnawing on his hand. Still hasn’t found the thumb reliably, but has gotten the thumb/forefinger suck down.
We are just enthralled by this little boy and are completely in love. Darrell is excited and ready for #2 already. 🙂 – not happening for another year at least.
After we got back from Vancouver, we had a pretty busy week. That weekend was the Seattle Scottish Highland Games and we headed down to the fairgrounds on Saturday so Darrell could finish getting the items he needed for his Bagpipe outfit. It was also a way for him to find a local piper band to play with. There were a lot of bagpipes there and it was amazing. We absolutely loved it. We randomly ran into one of Darrell’s college friends (Larkin) and she was excited to meet Edward. Darrell got everything he needed and he even found out that he had a choice between a lot of bands to play with. He ended up going to two rehearsals and found one that he liked, so he will start practice again on Thursday nights (with the exception of this Thursday when we leave for Athabasca, AB). Depending on what we are doing next year, Darrell wants to go down and camp out for the whole weekend with everyone. We shall see though. 🙂
Darrell’s Kilt & Bagpipe Outfit:
That also happened to be the weekend that one of Darrell’s college friends (Julia, Mitch & their son Colin) was moving into town. Michelle & Jim (more college friends) were coming into town to visit them, so we all got together for dinner and then some of us hung out at the park across the street from us the next day. It was a lot of fun and we are looking forward to spending more time with Julia et al. At least it will be fun for me since we are both stay-at-home moms. It will be the much needed adult interaction when we have had enough child only interaction. 🙂
We headed up to Vancouver, BC to visit Darrell’s Grandad and Marie while Darrell attended an IEEE conference. It was a long week, but it was a nice first trip to Canada for Edward. We weren’t sure for awhile if we would be able to go as there were problems getting Edward’s birth certificate so we weren’t going to be able to get his passport without having to spend a lot of money for the expedited one. Luckily, we found out that if you are driving to Canada or Mexico, children don’t need a passport until they are 15 years old. They only need their birth certificates. Yay for us!
We left Seattle on Friday night around 7:30 and got into Vancouver around 10:30. It was quick and fairly pain-less. We crossed the border at the 539 near Aldergrove since it was only slated to be a 5 minute wait and I-5 was slated to be a 45 minute wait. Edward does not do well in his carseat in the car if the car is not moving, plus we would have needed to stop and feed him if we had to tack on another hour to the trip. Grandad & Marie had a nice room waiting for us and Edward slept great the whole time we were there. We got up early on Saturday and headed out to go catch the ferry over to visit Mary & Maurice at their place in Sechelt. It was a blast and they had a gorgeous view. We only stayed there for one night and then headed back to West Vancouver.
Darrell’s conference started on Monday in Downtown Vancouver, so he took the bus to downtown and spent the day down there. It was hard as it was his first long day away from Edward. Before then, the longest he spent away was a few hours when I would head out to do the shopping et al during the week. He was at the conference for 4 days coming back each evening. I took Edward into Downtown Vancouver on Tuesday so Darrell’s co-workers could meet Edward and we could hang out together. Tuesday was the day there wasn’t much that Darrell wanted to do on the conference list, so we had lunch and wandered around for awhile before heading back to go out to dinner with Grandad.
Darrell finished the conference on Thursday afternoon, so we headed back on Thursday so we could get home before any weekend traffic started up. It was fun hanging out with everyone and also seeing Grandad Ross (Great-Grandad to Edward) hang out and spend time with Edward. These are definitely the moments to treasure. 🙂
Ferry Ride/Trip to Sechelt:
Hanging out with Mary & Maurice:
At the conference/Downtown Vancouver:
West Vancouver with Grandad & Marie:
