Smiles!

Devin has the cutest smile ever! And he is getting very good at sharing it with us! He starts out with a half grin with turns into an open-mouth smile that makes us smile, which makes him smile bigger! The tricky part is getting in on "film." He won't really smile with a camera in his face, so you have to move it out of the way and try to get him to smile. By the time you get the camera back into place to capture it, the smile has gone away. But, sometimes we are lucky! He also smiles like crazy while he is asleep. Guess he has good dreams! One time I was holding him while he slept and he kept smiling, so I grabbed the camera and took a short video of him. Unfortunately, I can't upload said video b/c it is too big. Bummer deal dude!
Oh, and I just wanted to add...we got Devin weighed the other day b/c it has been 4 weeks since he was last weighed ( 7 lbs 6 oz at 2 weeks old) and it'll be another 3 weeks or so before he goes to the doctor again and gets weighed and we've been curious to see how big he has gotten. So, ya'll ready for this? At 6 weeks old, Devin weighs about 10 lbs 10 oz! Wowzers! I knew he had gained some weight, but I dunno if I woulda pegged it at almost 11 lbs! What can I say? He likes to eat, our chunky monkey!

A new haircut (and color) and some very yucky weather!

So, it has been almost 4 weeks since I had Devin and I have worn my hair in a ponytail almost every single day. I knew I wanted to get my hair done after I had the baby and I finally got around to getting it done. I got some blonde highlights (since my hair thinks it wants to be kinda brownish now) and a bob cut. I really like it and Morian does too (even though it's not long!)

On another note, we woke up this morning to this:

How can it do this to me?! Especially when I was sooooo looking forward to a nice dry winter! And it is only October. It's only s'posed to snow around Christmastime, at least in my book! Yuck!

Devin's First Bath

Devin's umbilical cord recently fell off, so we decided that it was time to give him a real bath, instead of a sponge bath. He enjoyed it much more than he did the sponge! With those, he would scream the whole time (until we washed his hair of course, he liked that part!) With his first tub bath, we sat him in the water and he seemed a little unsure of it at first. I gave him my fingers to hold on to and boy did he hold on! But, after a minute or so, he started to relax and I think he really enjoyed himself! He likes the warm water! So of course we had to take some pictures of this momentous occasion!

Devin chillin' in the tub! (what a big belly he has! he must be eating well!) And don't worry, we made sure he was modest!

A close-up of Devin

Devin getting dry

We love his froggy towel! So cute!

2 week check-up

So, on Tuesday, September 30, we took Devin in to see the doctor. His doctor is very nice and explained things to us in an easy to understand way. We're glad he's nothing like the pediatrician who was at the hospital when Devin was born! So, when we left the hospital after Devin was born, we didn't know what he weighed (they usually lose some weight and then gain it back by 2 weeks), but he is now 7 lbs 6 oz and about 20 in long! (The nurse who measured him said 19.5, but he was kinda scrunched up!) He still doesn't fit into many of his clothes- mostly the plain white onesies that just aren't that cute! Well, he makes them cute, but I can't wait till he fits into his really cute clothes! Um, he's in the 25th percentile for both his height and weight, but for his height he's a good weight! He's still as perfect and precious as ever! I'll post some more recent pics soon! He had to get the PKU test done, which is where they prick his heel and then hafta fill like 6 little circles on a piece of paper with his blood. He was bleeding pretty good and having a good cry; it made me so sad to see him sad like that! But he exhausted himself crying and fell alseep! I can't believe my baby is already 2 weeks old!