Jude 1 Month

Happy 1 Month Birthday Jude!

I can’t believe my baby boy is already one month old!  On one hand it seems like he has always been here and it is very strange to think back on our life without him and on the other hand time has gone by so fast that I am amazed that it has even been a month. 

Things are going well and I think I am fairly adjusted to Mommyhood and the lack of sleep that comes with it J.  Jude is growing and changing so much every day; at his two appointment he was up to 8 pounds, 9 ounces (his birth weight was 8 lbs, 7 oz, and he was down to 7 lbs 15 oz when we left the hospital). 

He is getting more awake and alert by the day, he definitely recognizes Josiah and I’s voice, even though he can only see us if we are a few inches from his face, and he loves being social and interacting with people while he is awake.

The blanket in the pictures is his baby blanket I made for him (with some help from Marmie to get the binding finished).  I found the tutorial for the rag quilt here, I have looked through their blog and they have lots of good DIY ideas.

My sister-in-law was gracious enough to do a photo shoot of Jude while she was here at Christmas. Here are some of my favorites from that; these were taken when he was one week old. 

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This is a short synopsis of some of Jude’s major events in his first month.

This is Jude with Dr. Clark when he was just a few hours old.
Dr. Clark is the family doctor, and delivered Josiah and all of his siblings.
There is a picture in Josiah's baby book of him and Dr. Clark right after he was
born, so we thought it would be fun to get a picture of Jude and Dr. Clark.

Jude getting ready to come home from the hospital.

His First Christmas and first picture with Santa (aka Grandpa Ben)

His First (Oregon) Christmas tree. His onsie says "My First Christmas"

Happy Christmastime!

I hope you are having a wonderful Christmas season! Hopefully it is not too busy, so that you can enjoy spending time with friends and family and celebrating Christ birth, the reason for the season!

Our Christmas season has been very enjoyable, and is going by so quickly! We finished off November by buying our Christmas tree (a REAL live fir tree, actually grown in Oregon!), and celebrating our 2^nd anniversary. 

I can’t believe it has been two years already, time has gone by so fast! To bring in December we have put up our decorations, and started into the traditional Leis family holiday food already (homemade chex mix and chocolate covered pretzels, yum!!!!). 

We also entered the world of smartphones! That has been to play with our new phones and figure out all that they can do, already we have used them lots for navigation and pictures. I have a feeling it not take that long before we wonder what we ever did without themJ. Unfortunately due to Josiah catching a bad cold we did miss the Denver Festival of Lights Parade that we were planning to go to last weekend L. This weekend made up for it though; we ran errands yesterday, basically finishing up our Christmas shopping  and attending a white elephant gift exchange and dinner at one of Josiah’s friend’s house in Denver. That was a wonderful time to get to celebrate with friends, laugh at all the goofy gifts and eat some really good food!

Now we are counting down the days until Christmas, and until J.R. arrives, 14, in case you haven’t been looking at the calendar J. That is for Christmas at least, for J.R. plus or minus a few depending on when he decides to arrive (at this point I’m definitely hoping for minus a few J). Hopefully soon I will get an entry done on all the things I’ve been accomplishing in the nursery.

37 weeks pregnant. The Dr says everything is going just the way it should, and JR can come whenever he wants to (hopefully soon!)! YAY! Sorry for not a more recent picture because I'm actually 38 weeks now.

Have a happy Christmastime and hopefully soon we will get to announce the arrival of a new addition to our family!