two weeks old.

 being two weeks old is hard work, brady says!  his days were filled with lots of diaper changes, naps, good eats & hilarious expressions.  we fall more in love with him every single day and two weeks old brought lots of joy to our little family of three.

we like to start our mornings slow, with lots of snuggles in mom & dad's bed :)  waking up is hard to do, especially when you're too little to drink coffee.

 brady has had so much more alert time this week.  he's awake usually for about 20-30 minutes after a feed, and it's been awesome to see his little blue eyes more often.  his expressions CRACK us up...i've heard several times how much more expressive he is than most newborns.  i guess he gets that from momma ;)  i love his little bird mouth, the furrowed brow, and his serious but calm demeanor.

and nothing beats a sleepy newborn smile.

also new around the homestead: patio furniture!  we have long been craving a shady spot to sit & enjoy our backyard and we finally pulled the trigger on this set.  we LOVE it.  being home more this summer with a new baby makes this especially handy to have.  and thankfully we found it on sale at target!  score.

one morning while pouring my first cup of coffee, brady took a moment to remind me how HUNGRY he was by mouthing my arm :)

we were so blessed to have our first out of town visitors come when brady was15 days old!  my mom & aunt jane made the trek from the midwest to spend a long weekend with us and we soaked up every second of their time here.  it was wonderful to introduce them to my little tiny and to spend hours just visiting & laughing & enjoying time together.  of course i was in the pit of depression when they left & can't wait to have them both out again soon.  i think it's safe to say they fell in love with little mister.

jane wasted no time offering brady his first candy :)

"talking" to grammy one morning!

being with daddy is by far brady's favorite activity so far (besides eating of course ;))...

i love this one of his little hand on mike's.  i think they'll be two peas in a pod as he grows up.

 we started really doing tummy time (and side time as you can see) this week and so far brady tolerates it okay.  he's very alert & just looks around and when on his tummy is able to move his head back and forth.  i don't know that he focuses much on anything but he seems to be fine laying face down & just looking around.

we weighed him at a lactation appointment at ten days old and he was 6 pounds 10 ounces. after losing eight ounces in the hospital, he'd gained altogether 15 ounces in his first ten days of life.  not bad for a little guy!  momma's milk must be good!

"touchdown brady!"

not so sure about the newborn napper attachment on the pack-n-play for naps...

okay, i guess it'll do.

what a difference a week makes!!  this is brady at just a few days old and at two weeks old.  he looks so much longer as his legs are really stretching out!

 one of my favorite things in LIFE is a sleeping baby on my chest.  A+ is my own baby sleeping on my chest.  we spend a lot of afternoons like this on the couch.  he is the sweetest thing ever & i can't get enough of this time with him.  mike agrees!

my little buddy accompanies me while i get ready in the mornings.  he's content just chilling in his rainforest bouncer.  seriously he is the most mellow peanut ever!

mister serious.  i could eat him up!

the eyebrows!  he's getting so big in his carseat only two weeks in!  he doesn't seem to mind getting in & out of it which i'm grateful for - have met many a newborn who freaks out when getting in or out :)

little man has decided this week that he LOVES being awake just when momma is ready for bed!  his favorite time of day is 10-11pm when i'm winding down & he's perking up.  these are a few pics of him this week at bedtime.  DING!

(p.s. i love love love our video monitor. best purchase we made! this is the night vision mode...great quality.  even better in daylight.)

 we celebrated mike's first father's day this week.  sunday was a really sweet day just the three of us.  church, followed by mike's pick for lunch (taco bell! man after my own heart!), presents galore, and then an afternoon snuggling on the couch watching golf.  it was perfect in his book, and actually in mine too.  i loved our day together & LOVED celebrating what an awesome dad he is already.  brady celebrated by taking a nap on daddy :)

 enjoying his patio lounger with sun shade :)

watching dad while dad watches golf.

 my new life: coffee & a binky on the side table.  perfection.

he got his second at-home bath & still isn't a fan.  thankfully his distress over bathing is nothing a binky can't fix!  we introduced a binky at the end of week one, after his nursing was well established and we discovered that our little peanut just likes to suck.  he is greatly comforted by his bink.

mister bright-eyes in the morning.  i love when i put him on his changing pad to get him dressed for the day, after the first feeding of the morning.  he's just super alert, quiet, calm and adorable.  his expressions still kill me and he gives me lots to laugh at first thing in the morning.  it makes the sleepless nights TOTALLY worth it :)

week two has been amazing.  we are so ridiculously infatuated with this little human and all his sweet ways.  he is such a blessing.  he's sleeping really well, doing some longer stretches at night most nights - minimum of three hours but sometimes makes it four or five - and the doctor said as long as he's gaining weight well like he has been those longer stretches are okay.  he eats well when he wakes up in the nighttime and goes back to sleep easily.  we take almost daily afternoon naps together, but i overall feel really functional during the daytime because he's not doing 1-2 hour sleep stretches at night like i was worried about.  so far it seems he got the price sleep gene, not mike's side of the family ;)

so excited about what each day brings us with our peanut.