Thursday, January 22, 2009

Christmas

We went out to West Texas the after Christmas to visit Will's family. We spent nearly a week and had a great time.

My parents came for a short visit while we were there...

Here is one of me with my mom and sister


My dad, Luke and Will


Will's sister and brother-in-law have 2 boys as well. Layne is 3 mos younger than Luke and Riley is 6 weeks older than Cole. It was a lot of fun and very noisy with all the boys there! The big boys are non-stop running and laughing and screaming from the time they get up to the time they go to bed.


I just had to post this one of me and my baby to show just how warm it was. It got close to 80 degrees while we were there! I know everyone here can identify with that though!




Sunday, January 18, 2009

Guess Who

Here are pictures of the boys at 1 day old. Can you guess which is which? It may be obvious to you guys but I think they looked so much alike at this age!




Thursday, January 15, 2009

Compare and Contrast

I have just been looking back and forth at Luke's baby pictures and pictures of Cole. I thought I would post some and see what you guys think...

Here is Luke at 3 months...

And Cole at 3 months...
The likeness is there but Cole is definitely developing his own unique characteristics. Of course the XXL cheeks help in that department!
He is now 3 1/2 months old and doing all of the fun things that a baby his age should be doing. I remember things getting really fun at this stage with Luke and it seems to be the same way with Cole. He laughs and smiles at every face that comes into his view. He will spend and hour on the floor talking to the ceiling fan! We started some cereal this week and Im hoping that helps tide him over for the night time because this baby likes to eat AT LEAST every 3 hours (see the chubby cheeks in above picture!) We have gotten down to only 2 feedings at night but Im pushing for only one, in the early morning hours preferably. He is pushing 17 lbs now, which means he has doubled his birth weight and he just rolled over yesterday from his tummy to his back for the first time.
Luke is the sweetest big brother and is really getting to be a help to me. The other day I was doing dishes while Cole was in his swing and started getting fussy. Luke was playing in the other room and I started to call him and ask him to give Cole his "plug". Before I could finish my sentence, Luke came running through the kitchen yelling "I got his plug!" and went to give it to him. When Cole is on the floor, Luke lays there with him talking to him and hugging on him. Im really enjoying this time with them together. I know it will be over all to quickly and they will be fighting all the time!