Something special for D

I saw kiwi crates in a magazine a few months ago and thought they were very interesting.  I have since seen them on several blogs and have become even more intrigued with them.  I decided to go ahead and sign us up.  I thought it would be something special that I did with just D.  It was going to be something that he got to do because he was the big brother.  We got our first one in last week and it did not disappoint.  I was very impressed with the activities and D liked all of them.  He spent about an hour working on them, so that is a win in my book.  He is never interested in anything that long.  The one that we got was a gardening crate.  It came with the material to do two activities and several more that you could do at home. 

The activity was planting bean and squash plants.  They sent everything we needed to complete the project:  the pocket and suction cups to hang them in the window, the dirt and the seeds.  

The second activity was decorating flower pots with model magic and planting a flower and a vegetable in them.  D got to pick and color the flower and the vegetable that he wanted to use.  There were several choices.

We need to work on coloring.

Finished flower pots

They even sent scissors.

It has been a week and D asks to watch his plants grow everyday.  We are starting to get a few little green sprouts.  

I am excited to get the next one in the mail. 

PIctures of G

  This is in the hospital.  I ordered these stickers to take his picture in every month.  For the first month I had one for every week. 

 This is the blanket I made for him.

 Read to go home

 G with his alligator.  D has a bigger one that looks the same.

 First Bath

Easter 2012

This is way late but here are pictures from our day.

D's Easter basket

 These are the only pictures I took of D in his Easter clothes and I took them with my phone.  He would not look at me for anything.

 Walking to Gran's

 Checking out the loot

One month

We survived the first month.  G is growing bigger everyday.  He weighs 8 lbs. 12 1/2 ounces and two weeks ago at the doctor he was 21 1/4 inches long. When D was little I took his picture every month with blocks, I wanted to do something different for G.  I ordered the stickers that have the months on them, but I wanted to do more.  I decided that I am going to try to take his picture with something different every month that I could either write or put the number on or use something to make the number.  This month I used some little plastic counters that happen to be buses. 

Adjusting to life

 We are making our way in this new life.  I think we are about to get in a routine.  It has gone better than I thought in some ways and a little worse than I thought in others.  My recovery from the C-Section went very well.  I have done much better than I did when D was born.  The baby is pretty calm most of the time.  He sleeps 3 1/2 to 4 hours at a time and seems to pretty mellow.  D is adjusting pretty well.  He is more needy some days than others, but for the most part he is doing well.  He wants to help and sometimes hears G crying before we do.  It is amazing to me how different the boys are even though G is so little. For example, G loves to be wrapped up tight and cuddled, D never liked any of that.  I am interested to see if they will always be this different.

 I have lots of pictures of G by himself, but I will put those in another post.  I wanted to share the ones that I had of the boys together.