Update on David

I’m sure it has to do with him being the 4th, but I just haven’t taken very many pictures of David.  I’ll try to do better.

He’ll be 2 months old at the end of this week and is doing great.  He is still a super nurser, loves to be held, and has started smiling and cooing at us all the time!  He holds his head up great and stares at the ceiling smiling enthusiastically. 

Not only do his parents and grandparents think he’s wonderful, but his brothers love him a lot and are really great helpers.  Brian and Christian both love to give him kisses and hugs and Aaron can help pick him up and carry him if asked. 

Since I’m still nursing him once and often twice or three times overnight I’m still pretty tired, but I know someday (soon?) he’ll sleep through the night.  I can survive a little longer since I know this stage will pass. 

We really have a great family and are especially glad David has joined our family.

Grandma Thomas with David at 2 weeks

Paul with David at 2 weeks

Paul and I with David at 2 weeks

Brian loves just being with him

David chilling in the bobby at 3 weeks

Christian giving him a hug (basically laying his head on top of David)

Grandma Fuller with David at 6 weeks

David smiling for the camera at 7 weeks

Looking super cute!

C and D side by side on the floor.

Christian giving him a kiss!

Can life really get much better?

David’s Baby Blessing

When David was 2 weeks old we were lucky to have Paul’s parents and his brother Andrew and sister in law Michelle come visit.  Most of the time we just stayed at home and hung out and passed around the baby. 

Paul and his dad and brother drove to Austin on Saturday for the BYU v UT football game and had a great time spending time together.

That Sunday Paul was able to give David a name and a blessing at church with his father and brother and some other family friends assisting him in the priesthood circle.  It was a wonderful day and I’m glad they were able to share it with us. 

Coincidentally, Monday was Grandparents day at the elementary school so they got to go to lunch with both Aaron and Brian at school!  I’m really glad it worked out that way.

Anyway, now for a few pictures!

Our family with Grandma and Grandpa Thomas

David Thomas with David Thomas!

Michelle and Andrew Thomas

Dave and Kathe with their newest grandson

Lastly, some pictures of my cute baby when he was 2 weeks old.

Paul’s Birthday

Paul’s birthday was this month and since I threw a baby shower on his actual birthday, we celebrated the next day by going out to dinner then on Sunday with a family dinner and opening of presents. 

Christian helping him open a puzzle

Yogurt covered pretzels

DIY book for the house

I don’t exactly know what a reciprocating saw is, but he wanted it!

He continued to get other presents later in the week as several things were ordered and arrived late.  I hope he had a good birthday and knows how lucky we each feel to have him in our family!

My 2 sets of boys

At times I feel like I have 2 sets of kids. My older boys and my younger boys.

First we have Aaron with Brian then fast forward a few years and we have Christian with David.  Same outfits.  Same chair (it’s been recovered though).  Different, but similar.  Totally cute!

What we’ve been up to lately

It’s been a crazy couple of weeks and I know I fell way behind in blogging over the past few months, and while it’s understandable with a new baby, I really need to document our life while he’s so little!  So I’m working on it and have SEVERAL posts half written.  (David’s baby blessing, Paul’s birthday, an update on David and some other general posts)  I hope I can finish them all this weekend.

Other than the posts I already mentioned, here are some of the things we’ve been up to lately.

I already blogged about this on my other blog, but I’m still so excited that we have Bountiful Baskets here in Houston now.  We’re still only getting baskets every other week, but we’ve gotten them 3 times now.  Here are pictures of what we’ve gotten in our baskets!  Can you believe it’s only $16.50 for all this!

The day after David was born, Paul bought our family a new TV.  We had previously just had a 27” for our main TV, but Paul decided it was time to upgrade!  And we upgraded to HD service just in time for college football.  When BYU played against USU we had a fun family night.  This summer when we went to Utah we made sure our boys had t-shirts from both schools (we try to brainwash them equally).  Before the game we let each kids choose which school they wanted to root for.  Here’s the results!

It really was a good game, despite the fact that BYU got lucky and won at the end!

Despite the sleep deprivation I am proud that I’ve kept my house in pretty good shape.  Mostly because I’ve made sure that I’ve had reasons to keep the house clean.  I threw a baby shower for my friend Haylie.  (she’s the one in the pink on the left)

I  invited some friends over for a turkey dinner to help clean out my freezer. We ended up with 8 adults, 3 2yos, 1 4yo, 2 5yos, 3 7yos and 1 8yo. I think the kid table had as much fun as the adult table!

I babysat for my friend Julie’s twins.  4 kids under the age of 2…was a little crazy, but it was only for a few hours.  I honestly don’t know how she manages her twins and 2 year old!

This week our Relief Society had a Provident Living cooking class.  I taught everyone what to do with pumpkins.  We cooked up 2 pumpkins and I ended up with 9 cups of pumpkin pulp for to make pumpkin cookies and other goodies!  I also got a cup of pumpkin seeds which I roasted and already ate!  So yummy.

 

Aaron and Brian have had a lot of fun lately too.  Now that they both go to the same elementary school they spend more time together.  Not only do they ride the bus together but they share a room too.  Aaron has the top bunk and his own light to read at night.  Brian has finally gotten interested in reading too and we will often find them both reading late at night well after we’ve told them to go to bed.  Hard to get mad at them though!

Life has definitely been busy, but busy is good.  It makes us tired, but we will survive! 

I wonder what will be next!