Big Kid

Sutton got really hot after a nap in his fleece jammies, so I stripped him down and he sprawled out on our bed. For some reason when he's naked, he seems so huge.

I can't believe how sweet my boy baby is! :) So blessed.

Snow Tracks

I find it funny that this little guy:

Can't take a direct route out in the backyard to pee. He likes to meander:

He's pretty cute and good at posing for me.

He's also good at stretching.

And Sutton's good at napping. Notice the dog hair by his eyebrow? That's how we do it here at the Dreher house.

 

 

Doctor Visit

On Monday morning, Sutton and I paid a little visit to his doctor. I just wanted to get the bruises around his eyes looked at, and we also ended up having some blood drawn just to make sure everything was normal. Here's my big man before his exam...he was in heaven surrounded by all that paper.

I ended up taking him off the table as soon as I was done taking these photos because he was crumpling it and squealing so loud that I figured everyone wondered what was going on in there.

After doing a full exam, she said he looked very healthy (and he weighed an even 22 lbs with his clothes on). The blood draw was a little traumatic. I had to sit holding him in the chair that has the padded arm that comes down and I distracted him with a toy while one nurse held his arm down and another poked him with the needle. His face screwed up and he let out a cry when it happened...he calmed down pretty fast, but then it was like he kept remembering what just happened and he would let out random cries for the next couple minutes. They wrapped his arm in a bandage and I left it on til Adam got home that evening so he could see how pathetic looking it was.

I got the results the next day...everything was normal except a platelet count was elevated which just pointed to him having something viral. He's been a bit congested for the past few weeks, but it's been barely noticeable. I'm hoping that's all it is. We're going back in two weeks to have more blood drawn just to make sure everything's going back to normal.

Baby Food, Beatles, Bruises, BFFs, and a Baby Shower.

Daddy makes eating fun. Lots of noises and watching the spoon fly around are involved, but...

We also get a lot more messy when Daddy is feeding us.

This is a super cute Beatles hoodie that I found at a consignment sale when Sutton was a newborn. He wears it a lot, but I'm sad for the day it doesn't fit anymore, I love it so much!

You may or may not have noticed in the last few photos that Sutton baby has some bruising around his eyes. It was a bit worse than even this photo above shows. There's a darker one on his right eyelid and the purple dots under his left eye were a lot darker. Long story short, we're not sure what happened to cause the bruises and I'm completely freaked out about them. I'm also frustrated because I tried to get into the doctor on Friday and they wouldn't return my call (don't do that to a paranoid new mom), so I will try again on Monday. My poor little man.

Friday night we had our small group at our house. These are some lovely ladies who are some of my best friends. Melinda, Risa, and Val (who didn't realize a photo was being taken...).

Meanwhile, Sutton was having a fun time in his exersaucer.

Yesterday I threw a baby shower for Audra at her house. Here was our amazing yellow cake with chocolate frosting. It was yummy.

In lieu of regular baby shower games, we played Apples to Apples. Such a fun alternative! Side note...I didn't see this at the time, but my little stinker (who's being held by Risa on the right), is grinning at the camera in this photo! Ha!

We were looking for a knife to cut the cake, and all we could find was Audra and Justin's wedding cake knife. So I made Audra and Val (who helped me out with the shower, thanks friend!) cut the cake like at a wedding. :) Check out how great Audra looks for just having had a baby 2 weeks ago! I unfortunately didn't get any new photos of the little boy baby, but refer to my photography blog because I took his newborn photos last week.

Baking, Etc.

We put those chocolate chips to good use today and baked chocolate chip cookies! Sutton helped.

Since he likes playing with paper, and since we had some extra Christmas cards laying around, he was excited to play with a photo of himself.

 

This has nothing to do with the photos, but...our baby food saga continues. He eats pretty good now, but he likes what he likes and hates what he hates. I never thought peas could cause a temper tantrum this early, but he takes after his Daddy in hating them. Pears are freaking good apparently and he lets you know if you don't feed them to him fast enough.

 Sutton is kind of in love with Diesel. He laughs at him all the time, even if he's just walking past. Diesel's oblivious. Sometimes he acknowledges the baby, sometimes not. When they play together, it's super cute. Diesel tries to get Sutton to throw his toys. :)

Diesel went to the vet today for his yearly checkup and shots. He's severely overweight, so now I have to stop feeding him my cereal milk every morning. He's in for a lot of disappointment. He can hear us finishing a bowl of cereal from a mile away.

Adam's team of 5th grade teachers made a donation to the Kansas Humane Society in memory of Axl, and I wanted to just say a big thank you. Meg, Kathy, Martha, Christine, and Brad...it means so much that you care enough to make such a gesture. I know you all realize how ridiculously in love we were with Axl and recognize how huge this loss is. Thanks again.

(And obviously...I was unsuccessful in my attempt to upload a video. Well, not so much unsuccessful as impatient. It was going to take an hour to upload and I ain't got that kinda time. Maybe another day.)

Chocolate Chips

Reeeeeeeeeach....

 Chocolate chips are a good toy. The bag is so crunchy. 

AH!

(I am now going to attempt to upload a video...don't hold your breath though. When it comes to video, I have no idea what I'm doing.)

Sunshine!

Today was beautiful! The weatherman had said it was coming, so I'd planned on taking Sutton and Diesel for a walk all week. (Another thing I couldn't have done if Axl was still around.) But, as it turned out, Adam needed me to stay home and wait for a package to be delivered that needed to be signed for, and of course it didn't come til the end of the day. So we had to settle for hanging out in the backyard. (Photos taken with a P&S camera...)