Charlie Loooves WynnGuy

"Beebee!  A beebee!!!!"
Charlie do you want to hold the baby?
"........Yesh."

Unfortunately I didn't manage to get any pictures of him helping me wipe Wynn when I changed his diaper.

One Month!

WynnGuy is one month old today.

We got up this morning and it was like he was a new kid!  He's more alert and interactive than ever.  After a clean diaper, warm clothes and a belly full of milk he gave us his first happy smiles!  The camera was right there so I captured it all:

Life is good for Wynn.  

He had a check up today and the stats are as follows:

Height 21.75 inches (apparently they measured wrong at his birth!)

Head Circumference: 40 cm

Weight: 11 lbs, 14 ounces!

Oly gained exactly 3 pounds in her first month, but Wynn has some catching up to do because even though he's bigger than she was, he has only gained 2 pounds, 10 ounces.  He spits up and Oly never did, so he's a little wasteful.  Another baby off the charts!

Our buddy Adam came to visit, a little later than with Oly, but he and Colleen are pretty busy preparing for their little boy who's arriving in a couple weeks.  

Today also would have been the 70th birthday of George Harrison.  On the day of Wynn's birth, when we arrived at the hospital and settled down to have a baby, we put on some of George's music to listen to during labor.  I love his solo work and Timmy loves me, it felt like a very good vibe to bring a person into the world to.  Some time during labor, one of us brought up the idea that Harrison would be a fantastic middle name if we ended up having a Wynn!  For maybe 30 minutes we were really considering it.  But in the end, we are very happy naming him after his Mama, his Grandpa, and his Great Grandparents.  Although naming him after his Mama's favorite Beatle would have been cool too.  Happy Birthday George!  The world was a better place with you in it!

Wynn at Almost One Month

Here's an old picture from his second day, still at the hospital, clutching one of Oly's Honks that she gave him.  

Remind me never to have a newborn during flu season ever again.  Trying to keep Oly and Tommys hands off of him is not easy, although it is sweet how much they both love him.  Problem is when they're constantly 2 inches away from him, you want to just put your palm in their face and push them away.  I'm pretty sure after this picture was taken Ashley picked Tommy up by his hoodie and ordered him to go play far away.

Tough guy:

This is a really cute shirt, but not a cute face picture.

Quick detour to Oly girl: She's big time into spelling.  She came with me to the grocery store when she was home sick with a cold, and I bought her new foam alphabet letters for being good/tolerable.  The problem with those packs is that there's only one of each letter, which makes it tough to spell many words.  In the tub that night she wanted to spell "ball", so I told her b-a-l was as close as we could get.  She looked around in the water, found the uppercase i and said, "But this big I looks like an L! We can use it!"  Woah.  She blows our mind constantly.  (We've since gone back and bought two more packs of letters so we can spell almost anything now!)

Amy hit the nail on the head:

Kiddo looks like a Monchichi!

Right?!?

I'll try to get some better pictures of his stork bites and forehead birthmark.  It's AMAZING how they're exactly like Oly's.  Exactly.  

Flintstone toes:

You think he's growing much?  We forgot to warn Oly that she could hold him at the very beginning but he's going to get waaay too big soon and she won't be able to hold him again for years. 

Here's a picture of Oly that I think looks just like WynnGuy.  It doesn't hurt that he wore these PJs yesterday:

Sorry that these blog posts don't really have much flow or narrative.  

"You get what you get and you don't get upset."

Pooh Bear

Thanks Grandpa Dave

A little big, but we're confident he'll grow into it.  

Rose Tree Park

Baby's first visit to the park:

Reading-Farmer Visit

Here's Grandpa Dave with 4/5ths of his grandkids!

Here's Papa Guy with all of his kids:

Here are some photos representing the rowdy living room while everyone was visiting:

What is missing are pictures of the TONS of food that they cooked and brought, the tons of fun that the three big kids had and the pumpkin PIE that Amy baked for me!  It was an absolute joy having them here!

WynnGuy

Wynn's 3 weeks old today!  I can't believe it.  He's now 10 pounds 14 ounces.  He looks like a completely different kid than when he was born. 

He crosses his great big flipper feet across my lap when he nurses.  

We have no idea who he looks like.  We keep asking him, "Who are you??  Where did you come from??":

But he definitely came from us because this ultrasound is no joke:

Here are my guys fast asleep in bed:

First Auntie and Cousin Hugs

10 Days Old

Go to the Nana and Grandpa Blog on the right for many more fantastic Wynn pictures.

Delicious short rib dinner made by Papa Guy:

Wynn's first trip to Iron Hill!!!!!

Oly's been a fairy for a few days and says that a very special milestone was passed last night:

Wynn's wings grew in!  They're still very tiny though so he needs her magic to fly until he gets older. 

She really, really loves him.  And not just for show so we'll take pictures of her (this is a very tiny sample of all the times she's held him since he arrived).  She seems to love him for all of the reasons anyone loves their baby: they're super cute, warm, cuddly, they grasp your finger, they gaze up into your eyes, they share your DNA.  

Very special first: Tim got to feed his child a bottle.  Oly didn't take a bottle until she was a toddler when we supplemented her with "vanilla milkshakes" (soy formula).  As a baby she refused every single one even though it was full of the pumped milk she drank 14 times a day, no matter how many different bottles we bought.  For Wynn at 10 days old, we tried 2 ounces of warmed pumped milk and the kid HOUSED it.  Papa gets to feed his son every night from now on and the warm and fuzzy feelings it gives him is overwhelming.