new moon & check up

Despite having an almost one month old baby boy, Brett and I were able to watch an entire movie, start to finish!!! And the movie of choice...NEW MOON!! Although the acting was horrible at times, the movie was very good (Jacob=hot). Brett and I both enjoyed it and Graham...well, Graham slept on Brett's chest the whole movie. God bless Brett for taking one for the team and remaining immobile for the entire movie to I could watch the next chapter in the Twilight saga!! We have already decided to get a babysitter for when Eclipse comes out!

We have also made it through our first week alone. Despite feeling more tired than we thought possible, I think we are doing OK. Graham had his one month check up yesterday and our little man is growing quite well. He weighs 9.5 lbs and measured 22 inches long. His head is also up to 14 inches in diameter. He is measuring in the 50th percentile in all his measurements, except his head, I can't remember what percentile he is in. He is doing great, and his umbilical cord is still attached. It should fall off soon.

time of day

As most of you know with a new baby, your sense of time completely goes away. For instance, I no longer eat meals at "regular" times. Brett and I are up every three hours throughout the night. I have not set an alarm since pre-Graham (neither has Brett). We rely on him to get us up.
Last night we fed Graham at about 11 pm. He should want to eat again at 1 am. So Graham wakes up and Brett looks at the clock and says, "Holy Cow, it's 4:30 am!" I was like "What!, he slept that long!" We did not feel like we had gotten that much sleep so it was hard to get up to get our crying baby. When I got up I looked at the clock and saw that instead of it being 4:30 am, it was in fact 1:40am! This made much more sense being that our kiddo rarely sleeps through a feeding and neither of us felt like we had gotten 5+ hours of sleep!! Oh sleep deprivation, how we love you!!!
Can you believe that Graham is over 4 weeks old now!! Times flies when you have no concept of it! We have his 1 month check up today, so we will post his news when we get back!

orangutan feet

Graham has some amazing feet. Besides being adorably cute, they have some super gripping power. He can grip your finger while he is feeding with his toes. I know this will make people in our family happy, especially Aunt Kimmy!! I also have this ability and used it in the last few weeks of being pregnant and while recuperating from C-section surgery. He also has a large space between his first and second toe. The space is so big it freaks Brett out, but I tell him it is completely normal, even though I have no idea if it is normal. I did see a photo of my friend's baby, thanks Bron!, and her daughter also had a big space between those two toes, so I am not that worried. He still has the super gripping power with his feet!!

More family photos:

Graham's first trip to the mall.



Graham and Daddy.



Graham and Mommy.



Chilling.



Ooohhhh...



Big smiles.

Graham Making Faces

Here are some of Graham's favorite facial expressions. This is from earlier this evening.

Let's Eat While We Can

This is video of Graham in his swing - shot just a few days ago. He will be three weeks old tomorrow. It is amazing how much he has changed and grown already. Enjoy.

work it out

We got Graham's social security number in the mail today....and to be honest, I do not like it. Brett and I both have numbers that start the same, and I was really hoping it would start like ours. But alas, he was born in a different state, we all were born in different states, so it can't be like ours. Oh well...on a funner note, we were reading the instructions on the card and Graham can't sign the card until he is 18 or when he starts working. I told Graham that he will definitely be signing the card before he is 18, because if he wants to text and send photos to all his friends and girlfriends, he can get a job and pay for that himself. Brett thought this comment was worthy of a post and I agreed.