Our Little Man

We brought Licoln home 2 days ago and I can't stop staring at him. He is so dang cute. I still can't believe he was in my belly or that I'm now a mom! We spent 2 days at the hospital with no access to the internet so getting the word out (and photos) has taken a little time but it was nice to have the time to just focus on him.

The last two nights have been a little rough and I from what I hear it's not going to get easier any time soon. We had the classic first night with no sleep and funny diaper blow outs. I didn't know they can pee and poop at the same time! It was exhausting and great at the same time. My parents are in town and everyone is in love with him and we are grateful for the help.

Here are a few of his first photos. I am also starting a project to take a photo a day of Lincoln to document his first year. Hopefully it will be come a journal of sorts and will go beyond just cute baby pics, although there will be plenty of those too. It may be a while before I get the first batch posted since taking care of him is a full time job right now, and I'm lucky to get a shower in let alone post images, but hopefully after awhile I will get to posting them regularly.





Here are the official stats:
Lincoln Reinhart Faber
Born June 11 at 10:27
8 lbs 5 oz
20.5 inches long

Nursery

It is now officially three days past my due date and no baby yet. Waiting is harder then I thought it would be. You spend so much time preparing to be ready to go to the hospital early that it is a little anti-climatic once the day comes and goes. I'm sure it will be worth the wait but little guy come on out already, we all want to meet you.

One good thing about him coming late is that it has given us time to get the nursery in shape. I want to add in some more vintage and handmade toys but it is pretty close to done. A few of my favorite things: the orange and green quilt my mom made, Jon's art over the crib, the chair that Kate loaned us, the vintage books from our childhood, the stuffed cat, the cardboard deer and the owl bank my sister gave me.

35 weeks prego

Hard to believe we are in the final stretch. We still have a lot to do. Here are the latest images plus my belly made the news. Too funny. You can see it here:

http://www.kvue.com/video/index.html?nvid=241995&shu=1

Happy St. Patties day!

Click image to see more baby belly images.

Building a crib

After many issues, we finally got our new Dwell crib from Target. It only took them loosing one, canceling that order after several weeks of waiting, waiting for the crib to come back in stock, reordering it in a different color, calling several times for a refund of the first crib, putting the second one together only to have the original one show up the next day.

We put it together this weekend and I love it. It is nicely made and you can't beat the price for a simple modern crib. As far as putting furniture together it wasn't too difficult. We had a hard time figuring out how the drop side worked so we thought we had it on wrong at first. Cribs apparently only come with directions on how to put them together not how to operate them (a necessary item for those of us who have never used one before).