We’ve been busy the past few days: Grandma & Grandpa flew in from Florida to meet Lennon!
Grandma fell in love with Lennon instantly and has spent as much time as possible holding and playing with him.
Grandpa may be in love with Lennon too but he’s very nervous about holding him. The only way he’ll do it is if Grandma puts Lennon in his lap while he’s already sitting and then Lennon just sits/sleeps there without fussing.
Mom and Dad celebrated having the grandparents in town by going to see Dinosaurs Live at the Staples Center - without the baby! Yes, our first date after the baby arrived!
Last night we went over to Rick’s sister’s and had a big family dinner - with both sets of grandparents plus cousin Kaden. Here’s some cute pictures of the two cousins at dinner:
Otherwise, Mom and Dad are still getting used to being a mom and a dad. We have to rotate baby-tending nights so that every other night one of us gets a full night of sleep while the other tends to the baby monitor and has to feed and change the baby whenever he wakes up - which is about every two to three hours. They say that at six to eight weeks the baby learns to sleep through the night. We can’t wait for that to happen! But for now, the shifting nights is working out to some degree. Of course we still get up at six a.m. most of the time and go to bed by nine p.m. Ah, the lame life of new parents! But there are some perks…
Finally, we also bought a house this weekend! Rick saw it for the first time on Thursday and had me and Lennon rush over to check it out. We had an offer in by Friday night, got a counter on Saturday morning and then countered back and got accepted by Saturday night. Today we had the inspector come by to check out the house and so far, so good. It’s definitely a little bit of a fixer-upper (way too much pink wallpaper and carpeting for our tastes) but it’s a great big huge house (almost 2700 square feet) in the mountainside/hills of Tarzana off of Vanalden. All the neighboring houses are $1 million+ houses so Lennon should have some great luck trick-or-treating up there in years to come. I’ll upload some pictures as things progress but we’re very excited to have finally found a place - and made a really great deal on it.
Oh yeah, and one last thing: Everyone has been wondering who Lennon looks like. Because he has dark hair and blue eyes, it seems natural to say he looks like Daddy.. but when my mom came to town this weekend she brought a picture of me when I was born. It’s almost eery how much alike Lennon and I look as newborns! Check it out:
 Laura as a baby |
 Baby Lennon, Day Two |
I have uploaded these pictures and a few others to the existing Kodak Photo Gallery Website.. You can check them out here: http://www.kodakgallery.com/I.jsp?c=m4osjet.6m6rgv7p&x=0&y=kyuz0k&localeid=en_US
you look a lot alike - for sure!!!
cute!