What a Good Boy!

Wow! How does Sarah do it all? Here she is playing a game (and probably winning) as she feeds our boy -- she is Supermom! Talk about multi-taksing! What would I do without her?

Drew has added the back to tummy turn to his repertoire; he smiles and laughs; he takes long naps; he got blessed at church; Valentines came and went; I played dodgeball; tax season has officially begun; a lot has happened! My favorite new development for Drew has to be the smiling and laughing! Sarah rolls his arms as she sings "The Wheels on the Bus" and he opens his mouth as wide and smiles. If you are lucky, sometimes he will greet you with a smile. Although he has smiled at Sarah for years, he gave me my first interactive smiles on Valentines Day -- what a gift!

Speaking of Valentines Day, guess what I got Sarah: that's right, a Snuggie! Intending to surprise Sarah with a gift I knew she wanted (even though she wouldn't admit it), I naively ventured over to http://www.getsnuggie.com/. $87 and four free reading lights later, I realized that I had just been taken. How trying to buy one snuggie for my wife turned into a confirmed order for four is beyond me (all four were upgraded, with more fleece and pockets, for a small fee). Luckily, it wasn't hard to find three takers eager to buy my extra snuggies.

The day after Valentines was the day of Drew's blessing at church. After two tries, we finally made it there (we forgot the diaper bag the first try). Drew looked great in his white sweater and white pants (made lovingly and skillfuly by Grandma S.) With the exception of one family that lives out of state, Drew was able to have all of his grandparents, aunts, uncles, parents, and most of his 26 cousins there to support him. During the blessing, Drew was very quiet and well-behaved. Sarah and I are lucky to have such a great boy on our hands.

Here are some pictures:

Look at those great pants!

Here is our little family right before we were late for Drew's blessing.

Here he is smiling again with Grandma.

I don't remember if this was right after Drew's blessing or right after dodgeball -- but I can tell you the sloppy joe sure was tasty.

This one was right after the blessing.

Does it get any cuter than this?

3 months old!

I have had this post as a draft for the last week and finally I am getting back to it. In that waiting period Drew had his 3 month birthday (a picture of him on this day is below).

We went to the neurologist last week and most everything is looking good. He is doing great developmentally, and there has been no seizure activity that we are aware of. The one concern the Dr. had was how much Drew loves to arch his neck (he has done this from the very beginning, he has a very strong neck and loves to arch it back whenever you hold him). Dr. Van Orman said that some kids who shows signs of this can start to show some spasticity at about 8 months of age (basically my understanding is it would be cerebral palsy). He (and I) didn't seem too concerned since he is otherwise developing quite well but it is something to keep an eye on. Below is an example of one of Drew's favorite arching positions while Grandpa Coop is holding him.

Another unique thing about Drew is that he is so small, (but is looking big to us). He weighed in at about 10 lbs. 6 oz.(with his clothes on) at the Dr. appt. which puts him in the 5% for his age. Last night we hung out with some friends who have babies about the same age. As you can see Drew is the tiniest of them all. Aren't they all so cute.

Kaden (16 weeks), Sam (10 weeks), and Drew (13 weeks)

Drew, Kaden and Sam

One last thing, for the last month or so Drew has been quite a wiggly guy in his sleep. He will start out facing one direction of the crib when we lie him down at night and then in the morning he will be turned facing the opposite direction. I thought this was pretty crazy for how young he was. The pictures below were taken a few weeks ago, they are both from the same angle of the crib.

Night time

The next morning! (Crazy boy)