Evan - Two Months Old

Since Evan's a winter baby, I've been keeping him bundled up for his monthly pictures but you can still see how much he's grown! I tried to get a real smile for this pic but could only manage to catch this little smirk...

At his two-month doctor appointment on 1/4, Evan weighed 11 lbs, 14 oz (50th percentile), but that was after no being able to keep down hardly any food for 24 hours! We caught a stomach virus over the weekend - Brynn and I both had it at the exact same time on Sunday night. Thankfully, the worst of it only lasted about six hours for both of us, but poor little Evan threw up everytime he ate on Monday. I took him up to the ED when Dwayne was working on Monday night in case he needed an IV, but they gave him some Zofran which made him be able to keep down Pedialyte. All that to say, I don't think his weight is very accurate at all, but I'm using the weight they got at the hospital since it is probably a little bit closer to the real thing.

We didn't make too much progress on the sleep front during month two - Evan still had to sleep with me every night and wakes up every 4 to 6 hours. But, on his two month-day, he gave me the present of sleeping 8 hours for the first time! It was great!

Happy New Year - 2011!

Dwayne had to work on New Year's Eve so I took the kid's over to Rachel's parents house to hang out - I didn't get too many pictures.

How cute is Brynn's outfit?


She really liked their dog Roxy, but called her "BeBe" all night...to Brynn, any black dog must be BeBe!


She loves Josh and wanted to sit on the couch with him - look at that tired face! This was probably at almost 11 pm, right before she went to sleep.

Christmas part II

After Dwayne had to leave for work, the Ostiens and Great-Aunt Jan came down for Christmas dinner!

We enjoyed relaxing and eating clam dip,


Had a delicious dinner,


Followed by the traditional buche de Noel, made by Valerie.


Gammy sent a package of Christmas gifts for the kids, including a Christmas dress with matching dress for her doll for Brynn! So cute!




It was a wonderful Christmas!

Christmas Morning

I loved Christmas this year! I wasn't sure what to expect with Brynn since she is still too little to really "get it", but she loved it. She loved opening gifts and was excited about every single one. We spent the weekend at my parents - Dwayne had to work on Christmas afternoon but I'm so glad he didn't miss presents in the morning because watching Brynn was so much fun.

We started the morning opening stockings - Brynn discovered a puppy first. She calls it BeBe!

She liked it so much she had to give the puppy a kiss.

An Elmo too??

Evan was not naughty, despite what the bottom of his union suit says.

Then Brynn had to try out her new fork, spoon and plate set.

Daddad, what did you get?

Brynn got a lot of accessories for her baby dolls since she loves to imitate us being a little mommy.

Mommy's shoes

So I took this video vertically by mistake and now I can't switch it, but it was too cute not to post. Brynn found a pair of my sandals in the closet and had a great time walking around in them.

First smiles

The first smile is definitely one of my favorite milestones! Evan caught a cold from Brynn and even though the poor thing has been stuffed up and miserable with a pretty high fever, my mom and I caught one of his first smiles on camera when she was over at our house helping me take care of the sickies. (Evan's shirt is open since we were checking for "retraction" to see if we needed to be worried - even though both kids sounded awful, we took both of them to the doctor and were told they both just had colds.) Daddy is especially good at getting smiles out of his little guy!

Evan - One month old

Our big boy is a month old! The first couple of weeks involved a lot of crying...he seemed to be having a tummy pains. I'm not sure if his digestive system was still adjusting or if it was something completely different, but after a couple of weeks he seems to be doing a lot better.

Evan has yet to spend a night, or even a nap, in his crib. Maybe he is a mamma's boy already, but he only sleeps at night if he is in bed with me. I am trying to wean him at least to the pack 'n play in our room, but so far he hasn't lasted longer than an hour in there. I have to admit I like snuggling with him though...The longest stretch of sleep at night is 4 hours so far - hopefully that will increase soon!