One month old / First haircut

Playing at the arcade / bounce house




First haircut



Working out with the kettlebell

Petting the one day old cows










Inserts to correct foot pronation

Playing in a living room fort with mommy


Abby turned one month old four days ago (or at least it was four days ago when I typed this - I've been able to find a few seconds to type our updates, but getting time to select and upload the pics has been a bit tricky). She had her one month doctor check-up the same day and we now have medical certification that she is a "perfect healthy little baby". She weighed in at 8 pounds, 4 ounces, which is more than a pound heavier than her two week check-up. So she is gaining more than an ounce each day right now, which is great. Kristi has been doing a great job with the breast feeding and that is going much easier than it did with Corin (which has a little to do with experience and a lot to do with production).
Corin had his first haircut the other day. We went to a place that only does kids' haircuts, and he had a pretty good time. They have a little playground inside that he ran around on while we were waiting and then he got a balloon (he loves balloons) when he was done. We didn't chop off his curls or anything drastic like that. We just gave him a little trip so that his mom would stop saying that he looked like a crazy Nick Nolte.
We took Corin to a kids' play place that has a bunch of inflatable bouncing houses and games. We went in just to check it out and discovered that it was free for kids under two years old. So we have already gone back once and I'm sure that there are more trips to come. Corin has a pretty good time playing in the little bounce house, but he really enjoys walking around all of the video games and skill games (Skee-ball, Whack-a-Mole, etc). The lights and the sounds just suck him right in.
In the last two weeks we also took a trip downtown and met our friends Fritz and Susan. Eddy's Ice Cream was having a little sundae festival. So we went to have a little treat and see some of the cows that donated to our dessert. There were two calves that were just one day old and a mama cow. Corin enjoyed petting the calves and having a few bites of ice cream.
Lastly, Corin got his orthotic inserts for his feet yesterday. It took him a couple minutes to get used to having them in his shoes, but now he doesn't even seem to notice that they are there. They should quickly correct the pronation of his feet. All other issues that required his physical therapy have been resolved and we are done with that.

Happy 4th of July

Corin and his QP-Doll hairdo.

First sponge bath.







Matching swimming outfits.





Corin loves sweeping (seriously).


Corin does lots of chores...he LOVES to use the lint roller.



At a pool party for his friend and swim lesson partner John.








At swim lessons.



What happens when Corin is left alone for a few minutes with a box of cereal?


Sorry that we missed a few pictures on the last post. We more than doubled up on them here to try and make up for it.
We had a good day yesterday and today (thanks to Pop and Lola yesterday and Grandma today). But the week before that was a little rough. Abby has been super gassy and fussy at night, and Corin was having some serious teething pain. He was so bad that he would wake up in the middle of the night screaming. Abby has been sleeping on the couch with Kristi and all last week I ended up taking Corin into bed with me so I could try and comfort him in the night. Last night he was fine with his teeth, but all of the fireworks in our neighborhood woke him up and scared him.
On the pleasant developments with him, he has started repeating some words that we say, which is fun. Almost everyday I take him for a walk in his little Cozy Coupe car. When he hanks the horn in the car I always say "Honk Honk". The other day after I said it he repeated "Honk Honk". He now knows the word "Up" too. He repeated it after me the other day and not only does he love saying it, but he really seems to know what it means too. Every night at bath time I tell him "Arms Up" so I can take his shirt off and he lifts his arms over his head. Lastly, in the last 36 hours he has started spinning in circles in place. He spins around a few times and then gets too dizzy and falls over. As long as he doesn't hit his head when he falls he lays on the floor and laughs.
His physical therapy has been going well and I think that we are pretty much done with it. He can stand up on his own now without holding onto anything to help him, which was the last main thing they really wanted him to work on. He still pronates his feet a lot so we had him fitted for little shoe inserts the other day. They should be ready in a couple weeks and should take care of that problem.
Abby had her two week check up the other day. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce, which was great. They just wanted her to be back up to her birth weight (6, 12) by then, so she is gaining weight nicely. She was in the 10th percentile for height and weight, but that is where Corin started out too and he is now at about the 95th percentile. The doctor says that the percentiles don't really matter too much, just as long as the height and weight percentiles stay relatively close to each other.
We are looking forward to this week, which is the first week in a few months that we don't have a doctor's appointment for at least one member of our household. Hope you all have a safe and fun 4th of July. (No fireworks for us tonight, since we rarely can stay out of bed later than 9pm. But our town shoots them off the week before the 4th, so we left the kids at home with Grandma last week and Kristi and I got to see some then).