Our little peanut is officially a quarter of a year old! He is such a happy little guy and we are loving seeing his personality start to come out. We’re convinced he wants to talk to us already and he seems to have a lot to say! Ben’s Stats: Weight: 10 pounds 11 ounces Fifth …
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The Big Grandparent Visit
Alex’s parents spent most of the month of August here in Washington with us. They had planned the trip well before I even was pregnant, but it worked out extremely well that the time coincided with Ben being a newborn, as well as my maternity and Alex’s paternity leave. It also helped that the weather …
Lake Chelan Trip
For the last big hurrah of the summer and our time with Alex’s parents we headed east over the mountains to Lake Chelan for a few days. Alex and I went to Lake Chelan for the first time last summer and absolutely loved it. It wasn’t hard to convince his parents to join us there …
Busy Bees!
It has been a really busy month of August with having Alex’s parents in town, as well as a short visit from his sister, trying to find a nanny and working on hiring a design build firm to get us on our way with our major renovation we’re hoping to embark on soon. Oh! And …
Ben’s Photo Shoot
It’s already been more than a month since Ben’s newborn photo shoot, so he has changed tremendously, but these photos will always serve as a good reminder of what he looked like right around his due date. He was 7 weeks old and probably around 5ish pounds I think. Our photographer, Kim Hildebrand, did such …
Ben is Two Months Old!
Ben turned two months old on July 31st! And according to his doctor yesterday, he’s acting like a two month old and not like a preemie. That was music to our ears! Overall, Ben is doing exceptionally well. His height is officially “on” the charts {2nd percentile} and his doctor told us at his next …
The Happenings
Things sure have been busy over here in our house the last week or so! We’ve been loving the summer weather that has finally arrived in Seattle, so, naturally we’ve been getting out and about and enjoying the sunshine quite a bit. My dad was here for a visit last week and got to meet Ben. …
Grandparents!
Ben has officially now met all four of his grandparents! Alex’s dad was out in Seattle when Ben was born, so he got to meet Ben the day he arrived. Naturally Alex’s mom rushed out here as quickly as she could after Ben was born, as well. My mom came about a week or so …
Too Busy Having Fun!
Well it’s been about two weeks since I posted an update about how Ben is doing and I can’t believe how fast that time has gone by! We have been so busy having fun that I’ve neglected writing an update. I’ll just let the pictures from the last couple weeks speak for themselves…
Memory Lane
About 3 weeks ago, one of the NICU volunteer photographers came around to the bedsides of different babies and offered to take photos. I just received them and boy was it a trip down memory lane. While I’ve all but forgotten about our time in the NICU, it was nice to see such beautiful photos …