Grandparents!

I thought today would be a good time to show just how much Kam loves his grandparents and how much they love him!

We'll start with how much he loves his grandfathers. Last weekend and this weekend we were amazed by the way he just stopped crying and was immediately calm after his Bip or his Pawpaw got him!

Now, rest assured he certainly loves his grandmothers, too!! They dote on him and he loves on them...it's a wonderful circle, really=) Here's Kam with his Nan and his Mema!

Kam sure is a blessed baby!!

No Pictures Today...

Thought I'd warn you early! I will have quite a few when we get back home tonight or after church tomorrow, though! We had a big day yesterday! Kam made his first trip to The Ehrhart School to meet all my kiddos and my co-workers. They all loved him! My 4th graders were at P.E. and swarmed him. Well, the girls swarmed him. The boys swarmed me to tell me how they did on their TAKS tests! (They did AWESOME by the way, I am SO very proud of my kids this year!! (83% of my 4th graders passed and half of them got Commended, only missing 1 or 2 questions overall!! And my 5th graders are at 70% right now, but I am really hoping that at least one of them (hopefully 2 or 3) passed their TAKS the second time around!) Both these scores are the best that our school has ever done in these grades for the Math TAKS. Woo hoo!!

After our trip to the school, we made Kam's first overnight trip to Mema and Pawpaw's house in Starks! He's been here for short visits before, but we spent the night this time and he did so great!!! He gets lots of love and he just eats it up! Also, we made a record last night...he let us sleep from 1 a.m. to almost 5 a.m. WITHOUT WAKING US ONCE!!! That is a 4 hour stretch. That is HUGE for our boy! Just hope it can continue to happen:) He has been such a sweet baby today...in a truly great mood!

Tomorrow we're going to take Kam to our church for the first time. We had a trial run last week at my parents' church, and he slept through the whole service! I hope that's the case again tomorrow!

Check back tomorrow for pictures from this weekend...I am off to play some Yahtzee with the fam!

It's Been a While...

I know I haven't posted in a while (a week!!) but I had good reason. We have been busy! We spent this weekend making Kamden's first long visit to Many to see my parents, drop off Ella, and let all my family meet him! Here's Kam ready to go:

He did GREAT on the trip. He slept the whole way there (3 hours!), which we weren't really shocked about since both the Breaux and Lambert sides of our family are excellent car sleepers:) All my family was able to visit (except Uncle Roger, but since he's in Maryland we'll excuse him:) ). We took pictures of everyone holdin Kamden, but there is no way I'm posting all those on here. See my Facebook album for all the lovely pictures from this weekend. Here are a few highlights.
Kam spent a LOT of time this weekend like this:
and this: . He spent a little time like this:

and this: and this: !
We took our first full family picture on Sunday!

Kamden also did great on the ride home. Slept the whole way again!

He's really been having touble sleeping at night. Well, unless we are holding him. This weekend was really bad, and I am assuming it is because of my chocolate and peanut butter intake :( So I have given up both. I haven't had either since Friday and man I am craving it! I have had some chocolate chip cookies, but I figure that can't hurt much and he hasn't had any problems with gas this week. Still, even when he wasn't gassy, he wanted to be held all night when he slept. Kaleb discovered that he really likes to lay on his side, so we bought a sleep positioner for him on Monday. It's a piece of cloth and at the bottom of it there are two wedges that velcro and we put him in there on his side in his pack n play in our room (wow lots of prepositional phrases there!) and the wedges keep him from rolling onto his stomach. He is doing great with it!! He still wakes up every 2 hours, but he eats for 30 minutes and then I can usually put him back down and he only fusses for a couple minutes if any and then falls asleep! It is nice!! And it was really cheap, too, just $15 at Target! Here it is in action:

Speaking of Target, Kam and I hadn't been anywhere except to hospitals, doctor's offices, Kaleb's parents', my parents', and my parents' church until today. We went to Target!!! It was so nice to get out. I found this awesome sling there!!! I really think Kam and I are both going to enjoy this. It's hands free cuddle time!! I definitely feel like a mama kangaroo.

That is about it for this super long update. I promise I will try and do better with the daily postings from now on!!

Sleepless Nights

I know I didn't post yesterday. That's mostly because I slept for most of it. Kamden stayed up ALL night Monday night. What a party animal. He wasn't happy to be up all night either. He was pretty upset about it. My wonderful husband let us both sleep as much as we wanted yesterday, though, so it definitely made up for it!! I don't think it's his congestion keeping him up. He's still stuffy, but it's so much better during the day. He just did not want to be put down and I'm guessing he just still has his days and nights mixed up. Not fun. He stayed up for a while yesterday evening and while he slept yesterday during the day Kaleb made sure that we put him down in something each time. Like this:

So precious! Shout out to Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Glen for that bouncer! He loves it=)

Last night after I put Ella to bed I came into the living room to this:

Wondering what has him so interested?

He is his father's son!! Kaleb didn't make him turn his head or anything. Guess he just noticed there was a game on. I sure do love these guys!!!

2 Weeks Old!

Wow! So hard to believe that our little man is already 2 weeks old!!! I've been watching the clock today and trying to remember what was happening at that time 2 weeks ago today. I like today much better:) Right now I'm relaxing in our recliner while Kam is sleeping soundly in his swing to some Ben Harper. Mmm this is nice. Here, let me show you!

Last night was pretty funny. Ella left some of her penguins in the living room and Kaleb had put Kam in the floor to change his diaper. We noticed he wasn't crying like he normally does when he gets changed. Kaleb looked and saw that he was staring at the penguins, captivated. So we had a little photo shoot=) I would love to know what he was thinking about those crazy penguins!!

Stud

Okay, not much in the way of an update today. Nothing's really happened! But check out the pose our little man struck while waiting to get a bath this evening. I swear we did not pose him like this!!



Is that a stud or what??

Big Sister is Home!

Today was so nice! I woke up feeling great (after my initial dose of 3 ibuprofens--yes, the doctor prescribed it!) and vaccuumed and mopped the house. It reallllllly needed it! Tomorrow I'm tackling the dusting. I also got a lot of clothes washed today. It feels really good getting up and getting something done! I'm glad I'm feeling well enough to do it. I am having a hard time realizing that we came home from the hospital a week ago today! Wow.

Kamden took a nap in his pack n play for the first time today!




This morning Kaleb's mom and aunt came over to bring Ella back to us and to see Kam for a while. It was so nice to get to visit with them! I really enjoy having visitors over, especially when it's to gush over our beautiful baby! Ella didn't waste any time. She hadn't gotten to hold him in a long time (her words).


Here's how I've spent most of my evening! Loving on this little guy...


And watching this sweet girl perform for us...



We are so very blessed!