6 weeks old & Disneyland

Demitri, at 6 weeks old you had your first trip (outside the womb) to Disneyland! You did so well on your first BIG outing, we got to the park around 2 and didn't get back home till midnight. I had plenty of diapers with us, our couple small travel wet bags, extra clothes, your Star Wars blanket, and the Ergo carrier. I wore you around the park and you slept quite a bit, but as usual when awake you were bright eyed and checking everything out. We even took you on your first ride, Pirates of the Caribbean. The first time on you were sound asleep, the second time you were awake sucking on your paci. with your head on my chest just checking it out.

Dad and I were talking and we cannot (can) wait for you to be older and actually be excited and enjoy going to Disneyland-going on the rides and seeing the characters. We LOVE you being so little and are eating up every single moment and talk about how we don't want you to grow up too fast but we are excited for all those fun stages as you grow...but don't grow too fast! It's already so crazy that you are just a short couple weeks away from being 2 months old.

My smiley man

I love that Demitri has started "interacting" with us more. Yesterday he was making faces at me so I took a ton of pictures.

but after a few minutes of the camera being in his face he was over it.

More pictures from our shoot pt 2

5 weeks old

Demitri turned 5 weeks old yesterday. It was also his first Saint Patrick's day. We celebrated with a special "it's my 1st Saint Patrick's day" onsie and just cuddled inside out of the pouring rain where it was nice and warm.

He seems to have grown a lot over the last week or so. Daniel and I measured him and he is 22 inches long, so he has grown an inch and a half since he was born. However he hasn't put on much weight so he's a long skinny little thing.
This last week he has (very) slowly started to discover his voice, and that it can be used for more than just crying. He will sit and try chatting with us, making lot of different faces and movements with his mouth, and occasionally will get a squeak out-which surprises him and he then makes a "what was that" face. So funny, and it makes me so excited for when he really starts to babble with us.

Today he had his "baby dedication" if you are not familiar with what that is, it is Daniel and I saying publicly that we are committing to raise Demitri as best we can to love God and in the way God would want. It is not a baptism or christening. I called family and told them about it and that after we were having a "meet the baby" potluck luncheon. It went well, it was very short, Demitri didn't cry or fuss at all, and my family all thought he was just the cutest thing ever.

After such a busy day and so many visitors little man is pooped out (literally) and just wanting to nap.

More pictures from our shoot

A few more pictures from Demitri's newborn shoot, still waiting on the rest and I cannot wait to see them! Here are the most recent ones posted...once the rest are up I will show them off as well. Hopefully they are just as cute.

One moth old

Ugh time just needs to slow down!
My baby boy is a month old today and growing up too fast...but I am loving every second of it! Not much has changed in the last week, but so much has changed since his birth. Which is still so surreal to me, every time I look at him as he sleeps I am just blown away by how amazing he is and how blessed I am to be his mommy.

Yesterday we took him with us to "see" episode 1 of Star Wars, he did really well! He slept through half of it and then woke up wanted to eat, and just chilled the rest of the time. Not that it would have mattered if he would have fussed since we had the theater all to ourselves!
My little Jedi all dressed up in his robes.

And of course Daddy was loving his outfit and decided to dress up in his as well.

And our family photo. You have to love (proud) nerdy families.

3 weeks old

3 weeks? That means that next week my little baby boy will be 1 month old! How on earth is that possible? Wasn't he just born, where is the time going?
This last week has gone by rather quickly, somehow.
Celebrating Dr Seuss Day in his Cat in the Hat diaper

Demitri is cluster feeding again, so I think that he is hitting his first growth spurt. He seems to want to eat, or snack, ever 45 minutes to a hour. And honestly it is annoying for me because it really makes it so all I am doing is nursing, but I know that after a few days it will be done with and we will (hopefully!) go back to our 2-3 hour feeding schedule. Even with his wanting to chow down ever hour during the day he is still sleeping well at night...mostly. Daniel and I get 3-4 hours of sleep at a time and when he wakes up we change his diaper and I feed him then it's back to sleep for another few hours.
At his Dr appointment the other day he was back up to his birth weight and is "looking great". I talked with his pediatrician (who was also my pediatrician when I was a kid) about having his frenulum clipped due to his latch issues and possible speech issues later on but he said that he didn't feel it was necessary just from looking at it (that he has seen shorter and that having a short frenulum does not always mean the child will have speech issues) but that he would talk with the Lactation Consultant after our next appointment and discuss with her what she thinks and get back to me. Daniel and I don't want to have it clipped unless it is necessary and would be beneficial.
He was not happy to be undressed

There are definitely times where I am frustrated but I truly love being a mommy! Moments like this make every frustration, late night, early morning and tear more than worth it!