Shaun's 1 month visit

Shaun is now 1 month old and weighs 12 lbs and is almost 23 inches. I thought those were pretty good numbers until I heard how much his cousin had grown in 1 month. My nephew Hugh went from 8 lbs to 11 lbs in 1 month. Now that's impressive. Shaun is doing good. He is trying to hold his head up and is staying awake more during the day. We had to put Shaun on soy formula because he has a sensitive stomach like Emily had when she was his age. We recently took some family photos. Both Emily and Shaun did not cooperate, but we got some cute pictures. We were at the Johnson's for Zoe's birthday party this past weekend and all the kids went swimming in just their swim diapers. Emily had alot of fun. She was splashing everybody. At one point she was the only baby in the pool.

Now Brad turned off the camera before he finished his comment but the whole comment goes " We've got the pole dancer and the mud wrestler." He is referring to Zoe as the pole dancer since she was hugging a pole in Florida this past January and Emily as the mud wrestler since she was rolling around in the pool.

More pictures

Here are some pictures of both Emily and Shaun. We recently bought Emily a chair that's her size and here's a picture of her in it. Everybody is doing good at our house. Shaun is awake more these days but still sleeps a lot. right now he sleeps pretty well through the night and usually in his crib. Brad takes the late night shift and I take the early morning. That gives us at least 4 -5 hours of straight sleep for the both of us which works for us.

Here's a daddy's girl in the making.

The boys of the house taking a nap. Typical male behavior.

Finally a picture with Shaun awake.

Emily enjoying her car ride.

Shaun with his great aunt Diane.

POW! BANG! Batman!!!!

Brad prefers Batman but Shaun looks cute in his Superman outfit as well.

Marilyn, Tom and Emily strolling down the street in Newport.

Here's a fun video if Emily saying waffle.

Shaun Alexander Mack

Sorry for the late update. Shaun was born on 6/8/10 at 12:29pm. He weighed in at 10lbs 15.7 ounces (basically 11lbs) and was 22in in length. He came out with a full head of hair which surprised both of us. We knew he would be big but I was expecting him to be bald. I'm sure it will all fall out and come in another color. We are all doing well and adjusting. There is a picture of me the day before we went to the hospital so you can see how big I got towards the end.

I did not forget about Emily. Here she is coloring on the floor. she likes to lay down on her belly and color. Its really cute and funny.

Last post before the hospital

Here are some pictures of Emily and of the baby's room. Everything is good here but we are anxiously awaiting the arrival of the newest Mack. We will post pictures of him once we have some. Enjoy these for now.

Busy and lazy

Well, we have been busy lately but I also rather get to bed early some nights then post. That's why it has been so long since my last post. Emily is changing everyday. She finally has moved into her forward facing car seat, which she enjoys. She is walking much better now almost running but not quite there yet. She is starting to say more. Emily can say hello, bye, baba for her bottle, ba for ball, pretty close to saying flower and row(she likes the song row, row, row your boat), yes and no. She also started saying animal sounds. Her best ones are lion, sheep and cat. We are working on others. she is also starting to do the motions for the wheels on the bus and says t,t,t when the horn toots in the song. Its really cute.

We went to the Johnson's house for Easter. Emily took a ride on her first swing and loved it. I have a video of her below. we had our first ear infection. Emily went to the doctors because of a cough and came out with a double ear infection. She never had a fever and never really pulled on her ears like kids usually do so we had no idea there was an infection. But she is all cured and better now. I think Emily might be growing since she has been taking her naps earlier than usual and is crankier than usual. Hopefully that is the case or we are hitting the terrible twos really early.

Here are some pictures and videos.

pictures at last

Here are the pictures I promised a couple of weeks ago. They are not in order of events but I have put captions with them so that you will know when things happened. Emily had a great 1st birthday. The weekend of her birthday party the weather decided that we needed snow. It didn't effect anything and the party went on as planned. The visit with grandma and Uncle Tyler was great. I took her to her 1 year check up on the 8th. She was 18.46 lbs (9%) and 28.5 in (26%). She went from 29% in weight to 9% and 47% in height to 26%. We weighed her a week later since she had not been eating very well the week before her doctor visit due to her illness to see what she was. In one week she had put on 0.2 lbs. We keep weighing her every week because the doctor said once she is 20lbs we can put her in her forward facing car seat.

In other news she started walking the Friday!! She still prefers to crawl but she can walk just slowly. I have video of her walking below. Her top teeth are finally coming in as well. Soon we will be able to give her more solid food since she will be able to chew it.

With only 4 months until the next one we decided to go crib shopping today. We did not find one until the very last place we went. It should be here in 6-10 weeks. The theme of his room is dinosaurs.

Here's a picture of Emily playing with the TV remote.

Emily loves her doll that Grammy gave her. She hugs it and then spanks it. Not sure where she picked up the spanking.

Just a random picture of her smiling at home.

Here's Kayla, Zoe and Emily playing in the balls in Florida earlier in January.

Emily loves to talk on her phone. That's why she has two cordless phones, one old fashion phone, and one cell phone. Of course she prefers mommy's and daddy's cell phones.

Emily liked to pick up the sand but did not like it on her hands. She would immediately try to brush the sand off while sitting on the beach at Sanibel Island in Florida.

She loved being tossed gently on and off the bed in Florida with Kayla.

Just being a goofball at the zoo in Florida.