Sunday, March 18, 2012

Our little boy is 1 month old!

Okay, so he's actually 5 1/2 weeks old now, but on March 9th he was 1 month old. I took the following pictures to try and capture the momentous occasion. I am uploading them all here because I think you'll get a good idea of what this little boy looks like - sometimes I think he looks like he has darker hair and a slightly darker complexion (similar to David) but most times I think his hair and complexion look lighter (similar to me).

Some interesting facts about Lawson that we've learned over the first month:

  • He grunts during his sleep and Dave thinks it sounds like an elf's laugh.
  • He does have an inside voice, but most of the time he uses his outside voice inside.
  • He cannot do two things at once. For example, he cannot eat and poop at the same time - he stops eating to go to the bathroom and once he's done he'll start eating again. 
  • He has started to grin, but we haven't gotten an all out smile yet.
  • He is in love with ceiling fans.
  • He is getting stronger and stronger: he holds his head up very high now when he's doing tummy time and even gets his chest off the ground sometimes.
  • No matter what time in his routine/cycle it is, he will fall asleep in the baby bjorn (in fact yesterday when all else failed and he hadn't been to sleep for over 4 hours I put him in the baby bjorn and he feel asleep instantly - and I transferred him to his crib)
  • He is excellent at tracking things. He follows the ceiling fan no matter where we are in the room - craning his neck to get a view. Today when we were laying down on a blanket Riggins walked into the room and Lawson watched him move from the door over to the diaper champ (Mr. R loves poop!). 
  • He's started to look at us more. When I walk up to his crib he looks up at me and I love it! Today when I was changing Lawson Dave walked in the room and started talking and Lawson looked for his daddy. Very cool!
  • He is always staring at the fabric I put on the wall (see pics a few posts back about the nursery). When he's on the changing table he looks up at the fabric and when he's in his crib he looks up at the fabric on the wall (he also looks at the ceiling fan!). 
  • He loves to go outside. If he is getting feisty I take him outside and he just loves looking around at everything.


Anyway, here they are the pictures from his 1 month photo shoot with me....