Trip to the Game Farm

Grady and I joined Jen, Ruby and Jack at the game farm in Frankfort last week. Grady slept through the whole thing, but I managed to get a picture of him with the gigantic snapping turtle.

Warning: the pictures are frightening!

The picture above was taken at 36 weeks...

This was taken today-6 weeks, 5 days after delivery...

Needless to say, I'm feeling a ton better! I officially started running again on Monday. I started with the fifth week of couch to 5k so that I don't completely kill myself. I've missed running and so has Hayes. We are both determined to lose our baby weight!

Mommy's Little Helper...

Grady at 6 weeks

Updates:

Grady is now smiling and giggling. Giggles are still usually when he's sleeping, but we can occasionally get him to smile at us making funny faces or noises at him, or shaking toys that make fun noises. I'm sure this will become more frequent over the next few weeks.

He's growing like a weed, nearing 10 lbs and 23 inches long.

He's been sleeping very well at night, usually about 6 hours from 9:30p.m. to 3:30 a.m., eat then back to sleep till about 7:30, eat then, back down immediately till about 10:30 a.m. I'm pretty pumped about this trend toward sleeping through the night. Of course last night he ate ever 3 hours...may be going into a growth spurt.

He's following our hands and other toys from one side to the other.

We completely adore him in every way! There's not one aspect that I don't like about being his momma. This has been the biggest 6 week lesson in servanthood that I could ever have imagined. Jon and I are here to meet his ever need. I love to see his needs met and him totally satisfied. It is by far the most exhausting and demanding, but also the most rewarding and joy-filled experience of my life. I just need a couple of little Grady smiles a day to keep me going. That's all the reward I need!

Enjoy the cute little pic! I'm off to cuddle with my son.

Erin

6 weeks down...

I had my 6 week checkup today and I'm officially released to exercise. On this weekend's to-do list: buy new running shoes along with other running necessities! I'm soooo excited to start literally running my rear end off.

Yawns...

Baby Yawns....

and....

Puppy Yawns...

Grady turns 1 month!!

Grady turned 1 month old on Monday. He's getting sooooo big!

I went to a baby store today in Lexington that had baby scales. So I weighed our little man. He's weighing in at a whopping 9 lbs. 5.8 oz. with clothes and diaper. That's up 1 lb. 2.5 oz from his doctor's visit 3 weeks ago. He's gaining over .75 oz per day. I love knowing that he's growing and maturing the way he should be.

Here are some recent pics.