"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark" --Chinese Proverb--

Well little Andrew hit the one month mark a week ago! He had his 1 month check up on Friday and weighed a whoppin' 12lbs 9oz! He's definitely my little porker boy :) I looked at Evelyn's baby book and at 2 months she weighed just 11 lbs...granted her birth weight was also lower than Andrew's but still...he's growing a lot quicker than she did! He's pretty long though so he's not overly chubby but is getting some more rolls on him and is super adorable. Everyone LOVES his hair and I get lots of compliments on it. He's getting a lot more interactive with us, still loves to be talked to and smile at us. Evelyn loves to talk to him and sing him songs, which is super cute...her favorite to sing are "Book of Mormon Stories" and "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star". Someday I'll put videos on here...

Unfortunately he's not all smiles and cuteness...a week and a half ago he started that "cry-at-night-for-a-good-hour-or-so-for-no-reason-and-won't-be-comforted" thing that babies do...ugh. He at least isn't as inconsolable as Evelyn was at this phase. Mark and I just take turns til he conks out which is a better system than both of us trying cuz we get a break :) Inconsolable, crying babies really can get super frustrating! Sometimes he is comforted by the vacuum, which is a nice quick fix, but hasn't worked the past few nights so bummer on that one. But at least it's before we go to bed so it's not ruining my sleep. He's still pretty good sleeping-wise, mostly waking up around 1 and 5 to eat and then 7 which then I just stay up. Every once and awhile he wakes up more or is "restless". He's a real grunter/restless sleeper after 5 so I'm constantly waking up cuz I think he's waking up and then he doesn't. That's pretty annoying :) But overall he's a wonderful baby! I'm still not getting horribly much done cuz he wants to be held when he's awake but he takes nice long naps so I've gotten a few things done in that time :)

This past week Mark used a couple days of his paternity leave to stay home for a couple days...which also coincided with his birthday so that was a nice long weekend for us to enjoy and celebrate! I finally got around to taking some pictures of Mark in his uniform and the baby, which I've been wanting to do for a long time, and they turned out pretty good! I wanted one of his dress uniforms but they didn't have the "right" medals/ribbons/whatever on them so he didn't want to but oh well. The khaki uniform is my fav anyway :) I also got some of Evelyn and Andrew too which are super cute! I haven't edited too many though so here's a few :)

This is my all time favorite!!! I LOVE his big, curious eyes poking out! Too cute!

I don't have too much else to say so I'll just go through the rest of my pics on my phone to show what we've been up to :)

One month old! 

I finished another part of Evelyn's costume...her arrow bag! :)

Of course another pic of his hair :) 

and here's his beautiful blue eyes! they're turning a pretty blue right now :)

Mark and Evelyn at lunch on his birthday!

Listening to his sister :)

My two little loves!

Mark "blowing" out his candles, I didn't have any :) This was seriously THE BEST CHOCOLATE CAKE EVER though!!!! here's a link to it... http://www.sophisticatedgourmet.com/2010/06/chocolate-strawberry-layer-cake/....super duper amazing and moist and chocolatey! I couldn't stop eating it and I want to make it again but know I'll eat it all and gain like 10 lbs from it :) Anyway, we had a nice, fun birthday weekend for Mark. Spent lots of quality time together and even got some us time! Our friend Morgan watched the kiddos so we could go see "The Dark Knight Rises" on Saturday, which was AMAZING. such a good movie series!

And I redid my yard some more.... :) Some of my plants died after I fixed it the first time so I rearranged a bit and added some pretty mums to make it prettier and more colorful! So much better. 

At the dr's office on friday. 

hanging out at the gym while Evelyn does gymnastics!

He holds his head up so well!

:) 

Evelyn at gymnastics

Anyway....there's our week or so for you! Not too much going on really but we're enjoying the days Mark's taking off (he's taking off two this week too for a long weekend) and really enjoying some cooler weather! SO glad it's cooler!

"There is nothing like the blessing Of a bouncing, baby boy He will fill your home with energy And touch your heart with joy. He'll hug you and bug you And try you within But each precious memory You'll treasure again and again."

 Today my little boy is 4 weeks old! I can't believe it's already almost been a month! It really has flown by! Andrew is getting so big and is still super sweet and so good! He's had a couple bad nights but overall is doing really good sleeping...the past few nights he's only been waking up 2 times and is getting 2 good stretches of sleep, which is great for me! I hate when they do the "wake up every 2 hours" thing cuz then you're up in between and have to get back to sleep and before you know it they're awake again...not very restful. But he's a good boy and at least gives me a few nights with good sleep before doing one of those nights :)

Let's see...we haven't really been up to too much...I've been slacking quite a bit but we haven't quite got our "schedule/routine" set worked out with a new baby...it's starting to get better though and I've gotten a couple things done this week that weren't just basic clean up/do laundry/feed baby type of stuff :) those are down further though...anyway. I did take some more pics of sweet little Andrew, but only have gotten around to editing these few...didn't get exactly what I wanted til the end of the session and then he was waking up and getting cranky so I had to stop, darn it! :( I still got some cute ones though! how could I not with such a cute little boy? :)

I really want to get some of Mark and Andrew with Mark in his uniform bu haven't gotten around to it yet...hopefully soon before Andrew gets too big! :)

one of my favs :)

another fav! he's so sweet! 

trying out a little hat ;)

right before the end.. I wanted some more of him on his tummy but he got fussy :(

 The only other thing to "report" is about his two week appointment...which was actually the day before he was 3 weeks old but whatever :) He weighed a nice 10 1/2 lbs though! He's definitely a chunkier baby than Evelyn ever was, but he's also a better eater :) There's a lot of "porker" nicknames flying around for him right now :) Evelyn thinks it's hilarious when I call him "porker butt". :) silly girl....

little porker! 

Well I don't have much else to really ramble about so I'm just gonna go along with the pics from here on...

His cute little bowtie outfit that he wore to church! so adorable!

super bad pic from my phone but he was on his tummy and flipped over to his back right when I took this! he hasn't done it again but for 2-3 weeks old that was pretty good :)

love his little mouth! so sweet :)

Andrew LOVES to be outside! We've got on a lot of walks this past week cuz it's finally cooling down and actually pleasant! I swear he'd love to be outside all day if he could...it's the quickest way to get him to calm down and go to sleep sometimes too! He falls asleep within minutes of going outside 95% of the time :)

a sweet little shot of him in the morning! he's gotten so much more smiley lately....love it! 

Evelyn is such a good big sister...granted half the time she doesn't have much to do with him but she loves talking to him and kissing his cute little head :) he loves to listen to her too :)

love this face of hers! :)

he's still a bit too squirmy for her though 

"watching" his first Bama game!

silly faces....

I adore his hair! it's so cute and soft and adorable :)

sweet tired boy!

and he's awake....

Last weekend we went to the beach for a little bit...the water was a bit rough but Andrew and I just sat under the umbrella and he slept the whole time and I chatted with my friend Morgan who came with us. Evelyn and Mark built sand castles the whole time :) great Saturday!

This past Monday Evelyn started her gymnastics class! It's every Monday for an hour and she LOVED it! 

She was so cute too! I have some video but haven't loaded it yet...next time I'll bring my real camera too and get some better quality pics :)

Yesterday I asked Evelyn to help me in the kitchen and her response was...hold on mom, I'm texting someone...oh boy.... :) Not even three years old and I'm getting the texting issue :)

Here's one of the projects I was able to do this week....didn't take long but that's alright! :) 

Another project! Evelyn wants to be Merida for halloween so I'm sprucing up her dress/outfit for it :)

I kinda winged the whole hooded cape thing cuz I could only find a size 6 pattern but it turned out really good! Can't wait for the whole outfit to be complete ;)

Then I also totally fixed her dress...I redid the bottom gold strip with better/sturdier fabric and completely redid the top...I took one of my old shirts again but this time used a pattern to make the top and did the square neck like Merida's actual dress...turned out MUCH better!

So cute!

My big project was to redo the front yard area! I really hated what the y put in the plant area...it was so crowded and ugly and didn't make sense....so I re-arranged it a little bit, added some new mulch and the fencing, then hung up some hanging plants and our Navy thing

Since I took these I've taken out a couple more plants, one died, and added some mums. but looks so much better than before! We like to sit out on the porch pretty much everyday so I wanted something nice to look at ;)

We also hung up a hummingbird feeder because someone told us they had some come to their house and the very next day we saw 3 hummingbirds! Evelyn loves to watch for them. It took me forever to get this pic though...they're so fast!