Week Three

 He looks cozy, but Owen tried out his stroller this week, and didn't love it... Mom and Owen ended up stopping at 2 bus stop benches to nurse and finally ditched the stroller for the carrier, which made him happy.  In the end, the stroller made a nice grocery cart instead.

 I noticed that even when Owen is farther away on the couch, it appears that he stares at Daddy's fly hanging on the lamp!

                                                   Sleeping on one of us is his favorite.

                           Mom tried out the sling around the house, but it didn't quite look right...

Meanwhile, Daddy figured it out while Mom was napping.  Now that's a much cozier looking baby!

Two weeks old!

 Owen is 2 weeks old today, and we woke up to the news that President Obama was re-elected, yay!  This week Dad went back to work, but has been staying home in the morning to help so Mom can get some baby-free sleep.  We took Owen out in the Manduca carrier on walks in the woods, where he walked every day inside mama before he was born.  Owen and Mom also visited Auntie Olga, whose baby is overdue, in hopes holding Owen would bring her some good luck to get labor going.  Owen is doing a lot of eating and sleeping and growing this week.  He doesn't like to be put down, so Mom is learning to do things one-handed.  All in all, we are learning more and more about eachother every day, and we love taking care of him.

                                   Very occasionally, Owen lets us put him down in his swing.

Garden gnome.

                           With his cloth diapers on, Owen is already wearing 0-3 months clothes.

                                               Daddy tried out the carrier for the first time.

 

                              Cell phone self-portraits are a little more difficult now!  Sorry Dad.

Owen isn't super interested in toys yet.

Christmas cactus is already in full bloom this week!

The O man sleeps well in his carrier.

Dad getting some Owen time before going to work.

Grandpa Vyleta and Auntie Kayla sent him his first Chicago Bears gear.  He loves it!

                                                    End of a meal, one satisfied customer.

 

                                                              Daddy, the baby whisperer.

                       We can't stop taking photos of that face.  We think he looks like an older boy,
                            but the rest of his body is definitely that of a flimsy 2 week old!

                                                     Sound asleep, as long as he's on dad.

                                                                            Awake!

                                                                  ...and back asleep.  :)

Owen's first week

Owen has been home for just over a week now, and we are all doing very well.  The labor was long and with some bumps along the way, with 12 hours at the birth center (mostly in the tub, which was awesome) before the little guy got stuck and we transferred to the hospital.  A few more hours of hard work for all of us at the hospital, and he was finally born, at 1:47pm October 24th, his due date.  Dad has been home all week and has been a huge help, it will be sad for Mom and Owen when he goes back to work on Monday.  Surely Mom cannot do as good a job burping Owen, and Owen also loves sleeping on Dad whenever possible.  Owen LOVES to eat, to be held close and to gaze up at us in his drunken monkey state of being after eating.  He was 3.520 kilos (7 pounds, 12 ounces) and 50 cm long (20 inches) at birth and at his pediatrician visit today he weighed 3.580 (7 pounds, 14 ounces) and his head grew in circumference a whole 2 cm, we think from going from cone shaped to round.  Mom is learning to sleep in 2 hour increments and also to trust that she doesn't have to stay awake and watch Owen sleep at night, so she is feeling much better.  All in all the first week has gone great, and here are some of the many photos we've shot around the house this week as we've become acquainted with our new little man.

First outfit at the hospital.

Sleeping on me during our one night hospital stay.

Cozy in Great-Grandma Grace's blanket.

Nick attempting to imprint.

Our little garden gnome.

Yes, we gave him a pacifier on Day 2.  No, it did not affect his nursing and he will not even accept it anymore!

He aggressively sucks on anything anywhere near his mouth.  This was before milk came in, poor guy was hungry!

Love his faces.

Best drunken monkey face.  He opens his eyes WIDE and makes fish faces with his mouth when he's drunk on milk.

Staring up at one of Daddy's flies.

Meeting Auntie Olga.  Her baby will be here soon too!

First outing in the wrap.

Owen meets our doula, Monika.

Midwife Gabriela weighs him with a fishing scale!  Back at birth weight 6 days later.

Daddy getting Owen ready for his first bath at home.

Midwife Gabriela visited us every day after the birth to check on us.

We love the sleep sacks because they're so easy, but he looks so cute with legs!

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