One Month and 29 Years!

Last Friday Luke turned one month old! He already looks so much different I think mostly because his face has filled out quite a bit. This first month has had its ups and downs. He's adorable which helps a ton but sometimes the crying can be overwhelming. Thankfully he's only really had one purple crying fit (apparently it peaks at 2 months so we'll see) and it was incredibly hard to watch and listen to. I felt so bad for him. As of right now his sleeping has gotten a bit better, at least at night. He does down about 10 and gets up around 2. Then gets up again about 6:30. It's a major improvement from every 3 hours. By the time you fed him and laid him back down you were lucky to get an hour and a half! I think the hospital made us paranoid about making sure he was eating every 2-3 hours since they would come in and make sure you were not going to long between feedings. Andy has been great in basically taking over when he gets home from work and even getting up for the first feeding on the weekends. He is such an awesome dad. Luke and I are so very blessed!

We had our one month check up today. He is 50th percentile in everything, weight (10lbs 4oz), length (21.5 inches), and head circumference. He also got his second Hep B shot today. I think we ALL cried. What a terrible job that much be, giving poor little babies shots! Luke, we love you so much we're willing to put you through that to protect you...Other that rolling over another cute thing he has started doing is cooing occasionally as well as smiling more meaningfully sometimes. Those moments are so precious to us and we can't wait until he does it even more! When he makes eye contact with you purposefully it just melts our hearts and man is he strong! Even the doctors always notice how strong he is!

Here is our sweet boy at 1 month! The lighting was awful this day so I might try to get some other photos later...we'll see...



 

So our super awesome Mr. Andy turned 29 Saturday! When asked where he wanted to go for his birthday dinner he chose Domino's. That's my husband...he puts everyone else before himself. Especially his little boy. And he was right, staying home was much easier then going out would have been. After we ate our wonderful friends invited us over for a birthday dessert (which was great because I have had NO time to bake :o( ). They got Andy chocolate cupcakes and even had candles for him to blow out. They are so sweet!

 

Alright, enough for now. I'm sure there will be more to come this week!

Rolling Over

Yesterday I put our sweet boy on his belly for tummy time and he rolled over! At 3 weeks our little Luke has already learned to roll over. So today I decided to catch it on video. This is probably more for the grandparents to see their grandbaby in action, but enjoy none the less (he actually does it towards the end of teh video...)! Oh, and please ignore my talking in the background. Thanks! ;o)

 

Now, I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing because now he won't stay on his tummy and I know that is important for him to learn to hold up his head and get a head start on being mobile...hmmm....

Luke's First Three Weeks

We were blessed with so many visitors in his first couple weeks of life. I just wanted to post some pictures of them and say thank your for loving our little boy!

The Fetters were so sweet to come visit us while still at the hospital:

 Both of our moms were so wonderful to stay and help out. Without them we probably would have gotten  no sleep nor would we have thought to eat...thank you both!

The Johnson's, my adopted family, came when Luke was only 5 days old!

 Finally Auntie Amber was able to visit! Unfortunately she had gotten sick right around the time he was born but she was nice enough to not give us her germs. We were so glad when she got to come hang out with us though!

We also had a friend from work come visit with her daughter as well as Auntie Reg. Sadly I did not get any pictures of them with Luke :o(

Since he was a Christmas baby we had to get some pictures with the Christmas tree, even if we didn't get one of all three of us. He didn't want to cooperate the day we decided to do this and then it was time for the tree to come down.

 Luke's first bath which he hated (at home):

 And of course I just had to post a few cute pictures we have taken...or a lot!