indulge me.

while taking the chair picture, i was able to steal some time to take some real pictures of the baby. to play with aperture and manual focus. and now i've come to waste your time with a million pictures. of the most beautiful baby ever...

















if you just didn't get enough, there's even more on our flickr account

two months

today i am sick. which stinks. so asher and i have spent most of the day in bed. so maybe it's not that bad...he's very snugly, this two-month old of mine.

that's right, on friday asher turned two. months.

at his two-month appointment (which was awful. i hate shots) he weighed in at a whopping 13.5lbs, and both his weight at length are in like the 120th percentile or something. okay, maybe not, but sometimes it feels that way carrying him around.

so two months...back in the chair. you can see one month and one week here and here.

...okay, seriously. i wrote that and then went to look for the week and month posts. and we've never posted about the chair. hmmmm...i'm losing my mind...

so, then, we'll start from the beginning. we decided that we would take a picture of asher every month in the same chair...you know, to show how much he grows. so we started at one week, because at one day we were still in the hospital. here's that one.



woah. he looks like such a newborn.

okay, month one.



and month two!



yeah, remember what i said about the 120th percentile?

he's so big. so old. two months. he's smiling a ton these days, his neck is so strong (the things you start saying when you become parents...) and he's getting to know his hands, i think starting to realize how to use them. basically. he's awesome. and a genius. and the cutest baby ever. ever. :)

through the generations

this weekend we had a very special visit from the greats...





daniel's parents and two grandmothers came out to see asher. we sat, and then ate. and then sat some more. and i'm pretty sure the grandmothers are convinced all we do is watch and talk about basketball...





but did you hear that georgia made the tournament?!?!?!?! so it was worth watching and talking about...





asher's extremely alert and attentive these days, and according to our visitors i'm sure, still sleeps a lot!

and, of course, he loved meeting his great-grandmothers and seeing granna and grandad again!

month one

well, we're a bit past asher's first month, but nevertheless. we're always behind, aren't we?

i made the above mosaic today...i'm pretty proud of it. (if you click on it it get's bigger...) it's in calendar form and is a picture for every day of asher's first month. there's only a couple of pictures that are fudged—that weren't taken on the day...

so anyway, i'll just fill you in on several things...

i'm feeling better and better every day (it's kirsten, by the way...) — tuesday marks six weeks and we were told at the hospital that it would be a full six week recovery. let me tell you. it's taken every day of that six weeks. and i'm thinking i might have some "discomfort" every once in a while after those six weeks. but the difference between today and five and a half weeks ago is unreal. and i never thought i'd feel better, so i'm pretty excited about it...

as of asher's one month birthday (feb. 25) he weighed in at 11.5 lbs! huge!

there's two pictures above—one at one week and the last one at one month—of asher in one of our chairs. we're going to take a picture of him in that chair every month! look at how different he looks from the one week! (like i said -- he's huge!)

we're all doing well here—we're having a blast being parents. we're getting, honestly, a great amount of sleep. asher only wakes up to feed, like every four hours or so? and then he goes right back to sleep...on the other hand, his naps aren't really that frequent or predictable right now, and he really, really loves being held...like, won't let us not hold him. so it's hard to get much done.

asher's in full baby mode, cute baby acne and losing some hair. and he's getting really precious rolls and a double chin (again, he's huge!) he's definitely grown out of most of his newborn clothes, but is still good in his 0-3 months. his neck is getting really strong, he's able to hold it up a ton. and he's definitely staring better and you can tell he's thinking hard. he smiles a bit here and there, but still at random—in response to daniel or i doing something, but it's just not like we can make him smile yet. and he's cooing and sighing and making sweet noises, too...

it's amazing :)