i'm poopin'

yes, sometime in the future, i'm sure cayden will hold a little tiny bit of resentment towards us for posting this video. we've been wanting to capture him poopin' on video for quite some time. it's the funniest thing (as you'll see below). unfortunately, we're never quite fast enough to catch it all on film... so imagine the below scenario - only with quite a few more grunts thrown in! (and feel free to laugh. it makes us giggle almost every time.)

smiles

not the best photo, but we're starting to get a lot more of these. surely there will be better photos to come, but thought i'd share what i have in the meantime...

delirious? maybe.

lately jeremy and i think we're pretty funny. like, laugh-out-loud-at-ourselves-all-the-time-funny. and i swear we're getting enough sleep (our little one is averaging between six and seven hours at night!). apparently something else is affecting our sense of humor though. because really, we're funny right now.

(really, we're not. but for some reason, we're hilarious to each other. and i suppose that's all that's important.)

here's how a quick shot of ourselves ... not one of them turned out good, but man did we have a good time laughing at ourselves afterward.

fourth of july

we all spent the long weekend in tennessee with my parents. and when i say "all," i mean me, jeremy, cayden, rachel, justin, ethan and lexie. so we all stayed with my parents over the long weekend and celebrated together.

cayden had a chance to meet one of his great grandmothers on saturday (he met and hung out with the other two earlier in the week - they both live in alabama; look for a post on that sometime soon). he also got to meet some other family members too - a great aunt and uncle and two more cousins. we had root beer/coke floats and watermelon. a new fourth of july tradition? perhaps so!

anyway, cayden slept through the fireworks, but here are a few other photos from the evening. we had a great time. justin bought an awesome firework that made us all feel a little bit cool. unfortunately, we were a bit too close to fully enjoy it ourselves (other people in the neighborhood surely "oohed" and "aahed" over it though). it was a little difficult to capture it in a photo. all in all, a great weekend, and good holiday.

tummy time

here's cayden practicing his tummy time. it's to help him build his neck muscles to hold up that big noggin of his. he's actually gotten even better since this clip was taken, but thought we'd share anyway. and apparently the tongue action helps him out! ha!

cayden had his six-week check-up today too. he's weighing in at a good 10 pounds and twelve ounces. and he's 23.25 inches long (50th percentile for weight and 75th percentile for height - where'd he get the height from?). he also got four shots today - two in each leg. the first one went pretty well... by the time we got to the second one his face was so red and i didn't know he could scream that loud. jeremy and i both teared up just a bit... but he calmed down quickly and he's been acting just fine since then. whew.

oh, and he's started smiling at us in the last week. i can't even put into words how it makes us feel. hopefully we'll catch that one on camera soon too...