10 weeks alreadY?

"I'm 10 weeks old!"

Our little boy is getting so big! He is a ton of fun to play with-- he smiles at us a lot, especially after a good sleep or a meal. Sometimes if I smile at him when he's getting fussy, he sort of stops mid-whimper and does a mixture of a grimace and smile. It's pretty funny! He loves looking at lights, swinging, and observing the world.

Getting big: his thighs and arms, his cheeks, his lung capacity (louder crying but also cuter noises too), and his golden eyelashes: one fell out while I was feeding him the other day, and I had to measure it because it was SOOO long! It turned out to be 1/2 an inch long!!!

Our attempt at an eyelash picture-- can you see the fringe against the brown couch?

Snoozing on the couch

Exercizing-- I'm sure he'll eventually learn to love it for more than 5 minutes!

And las but not least, a smiley video:

Mel's Visit Part 2

I forgot to post the non-basketball pictures of Mel's visit!

Jeff is always glad to play Wii with someone who is actually good at it

We played one of our all-time favorite games--Herd Your Horses. Mel whooped me!

What a Week!

This week, my sister Melody (Mel) came to Walla Walla for a basketball camp, and we got to see her the day before and the day after her camp. Jeff and I also house/pet-sat for a family in our ward from Tuesday to Saturday. They have 2 beagles, 3 cats, 3 guinea pigs, 2 fish, a bird, and a frog. What a handful! But we enjoyed their central AC during the many heat advisories. I also particularly liked having a dishwasher. I must say, I'm not fond of guinea pigs (the smell) or dogs that bark at 4am to be let outside... It was a nice change of pace to live in an actual house for a few days, but I'm still glad to be back home in our little hot apartment! Here's what's been going on around here:

Jeff needed a home-teaching companion on Sunday night, so he took his son

Aunt Mel!!!

Kind of random, but I don't think I ever posted a picture of MY t-shirt quilt. I did Jeff's first, and then finished mine a week or so before Jay was born. Somehow, I still have about 30 t-shirts...

And now, for some intense basketball pictures!!! The last day of Mel's camp they did drills and such for proud parents to watch. Jay and I went and swelterd in that gym to see Mel's sweet skills (how did they survive 4 days in that sauna of a gym?) I enjoyed attempting to take non-blurry pictures

Mel was really tired after the long week of playing basketball, but she still looked great to me!

Rebound!

I like this one-- she makes basketball look so fun!

She shoots!

She scores! (ok, Mel may not have shot this exact basketball, but it was hard enough taking a picture of a swoosh so I couldn't be picky about WHO shot the ball...)

And my champion sister with her fellow all-stars of the camp league. Go Mel GO!

SMILEY FACE!

Jay now LOVES to SMILE!!!! HORRAYYYY!!! He is such a happy little guy, especially in the mornings. He loves to lay on his back, kick his little legs, punch with his hands, and use his sweet voice. Check out this handsome grin:

Content smile

Sometimes I think he forgets exactly how to smile when we smile at him, and this face comes first

Then he remembers and the dimples come

Then he gets really excited and starts boxing and kicking and squealing

and he is TOTALLY smiling at me here... my favorite smile by far!

Here's joyful little Jay in the morning

Ironically, as I was finishing this post, Jay woke up from a nap, and he's wailing at the top of his lungs...

Sweet little VOICE!

This week Jay has started using his little voice when he's happy! He has also smiled a little at Daddy and Mommy!! wahoooooo dimples!!

It's All GONE!!

I have a magic trick for you: be warned, it is scary and drastic!!!

This is what I looked like yesterday

and from the SIDE ... see the long lush hair...

...And POOF, it's all gone!

Bigger and Cuter

Jay is getting some baby chubs!! And his little strawberry hair is growing! He has started smiling and using his voice all the time. We still can't make him smile, but sometimes he smiles while looking at us. Here are the latest photos:

Aunt Steph (Jeff's sister) came to visit this Friday!

It is rare to get a picture of Jay with all of his limbs in focus-- he loves to wiggle! Look at that tummy... I must be doing something right

These are my favorites (we draped him over the couch arm, I held his booty, and Jeff took the pictures)

Can you see his little golden hairs?

Jeff's favorite

My favorite

Our week

Here's what we've been up to lately (aside from taking a pile of pictures of our baby, of course)

Woah! I made it through the magic 6 week post partum period, so I'm allowed to run now! and it's never been this hard before! My first run was Friday, June 3rd, and I ran for 20 minutes and covered almost 2 miles. This may take a while...

Jeff was in class yesterday when I wanted to run, so Jay came on his first run in the jogging stroller (and I had to document it with a picture, of course!)

and Jeff finally got his windy day. I gave him a trick kite for his birthday last month, and it hasn't been windy enough to keep it aloft... until yesterday! He came dashing in after class, grabbed his kite, and headed for the park. Jay and I trailed behind

The master at work-- he can make the kite do flips and even do a Wronski Feint (for all you Quidditch fans)

and we love pizza-- our latest concoction is barbecue sauce with chicken, bacon, fresh pineapple, and cheese. YUMMY!!!

Our little squirmer

Time for a million more pictures of our cutie!

Jeff says Jay looks like Mickey Rooney in this picture

A favorite sleeping position...in his new shorts that traveled alllll the way from the Hong Kong Hillam family!!!

This is what Jay looks like after a nice big milky meal--tranquilized baby face!

The next 3 pictures are all from the same nap. Jay was on the floor by the couch while we were watching a movie--I swear, I never SAW him move, but suddenly he had wriggled over and over again

The first move (the remote is where his head was originally)

We put him on his tummy next, and he moved even faster--somehow yanking the burp cloth out from under his face and sliding off the blanket at the same time

The third time we moved him back onto the blanket, he was off it in no time!

For Grama-- the booties fit perfectly!! Even though I laced them on nice and snug, he still manged to kick one off!

and that's the end

Baby Blessing!

Today, all 4 of Jay's grandparents came to church with us for Jay's baby blessing! That's a lot of driving-- 2 hrs for Jeff's parents, 4 1/2 hrs for my parents--that's 13 hours (round trip) total driving time between all of them just to see their grandson blessed!! They must love him or something. Jay was a good, quiet boy during the blessing, although he did a large poop right beforehand and there was no time to change it!

At last a picture with Uncle Kyle!

We've never had THIS many people in our apartment! We love our family!

The MEN after the blessing

This Dad loves his boy!

Our little family-- notice Jay's nice Argyle socks!

Everyone

(Mel was in Missouri visiting Em, Jesse, and Steve)

The moms/grandmoms

Weekend in Seattle with the fam

We stayed at my family's house in Bellevue this weekend so Jeff could run his marathon. Jay met Aunt Mel, Uncle Kyle, and Grampa for the first time. We love our family!!

Exercising

Mel was SO sweet and good with Jay!

High five, Grama!

Grampa!!