Christmas decorating

We are skimping a bit on our Christmas decorations this year and using the "we have a newborn and a crazy toddler running around the house" as the likely excuse. We did decide to put up our artificial pre-lit Christmas tree and at first were not going to add any ornaments at all so as to avoid the inevitable removal of the ornaments by the aforementioned toddler. But once it was up, it looked so barren and sad that we added some cheerful red bows just for a little color. We promise to have our house back in full holiday swing next year!

Good job with the bows, Joey!

Joey helping daddy put the star on top

Joey inspecting his work...looks good to me!

Owen is 2 weeks old!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! As always, our family has so much to be thankful for. This year, we are especially thankful for Owen, our little Thanksgiving turkeyball and of course thankful for his adoring big brother Joey. It's hard to believe that Owen is already two weeks old! He is still sleeping a lot although he is starting to open his eyes more often. He is also eating very well and you can tell in the pictures that he's starting to get a little chubbier in the cheeks.

Here is Joey pointing out Owen's umbilical cord stump just moments before he gives it a big tug...not coincidentally, the stump fell out the next day.


And I couldn't resist a couple of photos of Joey sneaking to the dinner table to gobble down a huge spoonful of sweet potatoes while no one was looking...

Owen's first week

Owen was born one week ago today and we're so enjoying having him home with us. He is such a sweet and pleasant baby and things on the homefront have been wonderful (especially with Mima here to help). Enjoy some of our favorite pictures from this past week!

Coming home from the hospital

Big brother Joey welcoming Owen home

Joey teaching us how to use the bulb syringe

Resting...this is literally what he does all day

Joey checking up on his baby brother

Mommy catalog shopping with her boys

Owen patiently waits while we do Joey's bedtime routine

Sponge bath!

Sweet little feet

Finally...the eyes are open!

School pictures

Okay, so the title of this post should really be singular since Mr. Photographer only took a single shot of Joey on picture day, but then he managed to photoshop the one pose into four incredibly cheesy variations. And on top of that, he also managed to con me into ordering all four...

Introducing Baby Owen!

Our precious baby Owen made his surprise entrance yesterday! He must have heard me begging him to come out the night before - we went to sleep for a few hours and then my water broke at 4:00a.m. We got to the hospital, got Pitocin, got an epidural (yay!!) and before I knew it, we started pushing. I guess it's true what they say about second babies just slipping out because I started pushing at 12:51p.m. and Owen was born just 16 minutes later. He is absolutely adorable (looks a lot like his big bro Joey) and so far the only issue we've had with him is keeping him awake long enough for feedings! Enjoy some pictures of our cutie below. Click here to see more (and we promise to keep posting more pics over the next few days).

Owen Christopher
November 13, 2008

1:07 p.m.
7 pounds, 8 ozs.
19.5 inches long