One Month

I can't believe that he's been around for a month...but he has!  Here are a couple of pictures around the one month marker.  This first one is a day or two before we left Thailand to come back home to JH.  He did great on the airplane, by the way.  Or great until about 10 minutes before we landed, and then it was spit up, poop, and general crankiness.  Oh well.  

These are from last night.  While I heated up dinner, Logan tried to catch Ro's smiles.  Every time he smiled though, he moved, so those pictures are all blurry.  But this one is close to a smile.

Chilling in his chair, with a new toy from Aunt JuJu.  

Overall, he really is a good baby.  I didn't really believe that my whole day would be taken up by caring for him, but it really basically is.  Its good though.  All our neighbors love him, but chastise us for not putting enough clothes on him, putting him in the Ergo carrier, me not wearing enough clothes, not keeping a hat on him...etc.  But its good..we just smile and say, "You're right, we'll do that next time."  :)

--da

Tummy Time

Here's Rowan getting some good tummy time, on his own.....

.......and with Logan.  

--da

Rowan Coulter Heinrich

Well, three weeks into this newborn baby thing, and I am just now writing to say, "He's here!"  But, seriously, we're three weeks in, and life is just not even the same, and of all the things that I need or want to get done during the day (that don't have to do w/ Rowan), blogging is not in the top 10.

But, he's asleep, for now, and so let me quickly tell you that Rowan arrived on October 15, at 1:45 am.  He was 7 lbs 14 oz and 19 inches long.  It was a wild experience, giving birth....for all the normal reasons plus the fact that he came only about 4 hours after I finally acknowledged I might be in labor, and so 2 hours after we arrived at the hospital.  (Remember that blog post about the trouble we had w/ the airline not being too keen on me flying while 36 weeks pregnant?  And how I was sure that there was no way I could give birth on the flight down here b/c it was only an hour and a half long?  Well, turns out I maybe have to almost eat those words.)

We are all doing pretty good.  Two of us are sleep deprived, but I'll let you guess which two I'm talking about.  :)  Ro is pretty much growing like a weed.  Here's a picture from this past week.

So, that's it for now.  We probably get to head home to JH in 10 days or so.  We're looking forward to returning home!

--da