Thirteen days

On the eve of Jack's two week birthday, I am happy to report that we are all alive and doing well, hooray!

Jack had his first doctor's appointment today and we were delighted to learn that he has gained over a pound since birth and now tips the scales at 8lbs 2oz. This does make sense when you factor in his eating schedule: every one to two hours during the day - and (praise the heavens) only every three to three and a half hours at night. But seriously, during the day he loves him some milk. Luckily I don't have a lot else going on since Chuck is amazing and paternity leave is amazing and not having to do the dishes or prepare meals is amazing. I can definitely handle keeping one kid fed if Chuck can handle keeping the rest of us fed!


The weekend that Jack came home from the hospital we were excited to enjoy a visit from Chuck's sister Melissa, her husband Kevin, and two of their kids. Their elderly neighbor from Boise passed away and so they came up for the funeral and were able to come and meet Jack and Melissa was sweet enough to do a quick photoshoot! Here are a couple of my favorites:

He's such a mellow, contemplative fellow so far. Aside from a couple (understandably) fussy moments the day his plasti-bell and cord fell off, Jack is incredibly even-tempered - only crying when he's hungry. Bless him.

He was very awake when Melissa pulled out the camera and stayed that way for most of the shoot, funny boy :).

He finally fell asleep towards the end. Isn't he soooo precious? Thanks again Melissa!!


We're still in the process of determining resemblances and how much he looks like the other boys.

Here they all are, side-by-side: Clyde (2 days old), Will (3 days old), and Jack (3 days old). Personally, I think that Will is the link between Clyde and Jack - Will looks a bit like Clyde, and Jack looks a lot like Will, but Clyde and Jack don't look as much alike - minus the dark hair of course :).

Here's another grouping, again it's Clyde, Will, Jack and all within the first couple of weeks of their cute little baby lives. I think Clyde's head is more round as opposed to the oval shape that Will and Jack both have . . . or maybe I've been staring at baby pictures too long tonight!


And finally, here are a couple more random shots of Jack from around the house the last couple weeks:

So happily asleep in his little Star Wars onesie :)!

Not so happily awake in a regular light blue onesie :(. He does have the furrowed brow down pretty well, which I remember being true of Clyde as well.

Enjoying a post-lunch nap . . .

My sweet friend Paulina gave Jack this cute little outfit, which he's worn several times now since it's one of the few 'newborn' size items we have. We love this silly monkey!