Final nursery pictures

Here we are, 6 weeks after Brian came home with us, and we just completed the finishing touches on the nursery! Seems about right to me.  :)  Today, with Papa Chuck's help, I got the last of the gift decorations hung/placed in the nursery.  Here are the new pictures of what it looks like. For those of you who have seen the nursery before, you'll notice that the rocker has migrated into the room now that he's sleeping in there.  (Wow, I love that rocker.  Such a wonderful find!)  I had to do some rearranging, and Brian's little arm chair rocker now has a home in our living room, but the layout is working well for us.  What do you guys think?  Of course the best part of the room is the little guy who sleeps in there! 

Thanks to everyone who has had a hand in making the room great.  First of all, to my husband who did such a wonderful job painting the room for us.  Also, my mom and our friend David who helped me get the room prepped, and my step-dad Chuck who has helped me hang/fix all sorts of things along the way.  Also thanks to Grandma Brenda and Grandpa Dell and Grammy for the furniture and layette set.

Thanks to Cathy Kilgore for the cool collage with Brian's name in it - you can see it on top of the dresser on the right side.  I didn't get a close up of it so you'll have to take my word that it's very cool (and very Cathy!).

Thanks to Jaclyn Austin for the big artwork for over his crib.  I love the wooden animals and the painted dragonfly, and the way you put it together with the fabric is awesome!

 

Thanks to Zula Dominey for the wonderfully colorful painting, customized for the Rasmussen family.  It's found a home on his bookcase with many of the other wonderful items. 

(While we're at it, thanks to Richard and Kathy Leach for the awesome frog bank, and to Grammy for the wonderful turtle night light - both have also found homes on the bookcase.)

And last, but certainly not least, thanks to Jessica St. Clair for the wonderful name artwork, now hanging above the light switch.  The colors and design turned out perfect!

Thanks, Dr. Ramos!

Yesterday we went to see Dr. Ramos (my doc) for my 6-week check up.  This is the guy who delivered our wonderful baby boy, and it was fun to see him get to hold him 6 weeks later.  I got a picture of them together.  Just wanted to say a public thanks to Dr. Ramos for being a part of this wonderful little miracle that is Brian! 

After spending months looking at the pictures on Dr. Ramos' wall of him holding people's babies, now we get our picture.  :)

A well-traveled young man...

So I'm sitting here writng this post with our wonderful Brian sleeping in my lap. Nothing unique about that, right? Well actually, we are in the car in Galveston at the Texas A&M campus. We are waiting for Daddy to be done with class so we can head up to Houston for some errands. And our well-traveled boy is doing so wonderful! He's been all over Lake Jackson, Galveston, and Houston in his first six weeks and he makes it so easy. We are blessed to have such a pleasant, easy baby!

I was going to include a cute picture of him sleeping here with me, but I can't figure out how to include a picture when posting from my phone. So you'll have to be content with my description of this wonderful little boy.

Happy 6 weeks, Brian! We love you!!

6 weeks gone already

As I was sitting here looking through pictures (and video) that we took this week, I'm once again amazed at how much Brian has changed in just the last 6 weeks!  He is making noises now, and reaching for toys.  He loves his bouncy chair and play gym, and absolutely adores his mobile (which makes diaper changes much easier!).  I'm including one video and a set of pictures from this week.  I hope you all enjoy seeing how much he is changing.

Video password: mobile

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 Sound asleep, snuggled up in a soft blanket

Laying in Dad's chair

 Playing with his play gym.  He's figuring out that he can hit the animals and make them move

Not the best quality picture, but so sweet!  He's holding Dad's hand

Says it all ... :)

Our little monkey playing before bed

Just being cute.  I have to say, the knee socks make any outfit you put him in so much cuter.  :)

Week 5

I can't believe that we've had Brian home with us for five weeks now.  He'll be five weeks old tomorrow, and he's changed so much already!  He's so strong, and alert, and growing so much.  He smiles at us now, and is starting to play.  He really prefers musical toys (and it seems he couldn't care less about rattly stuff) so we've found some fun musical toys that really grab his attention.  It's so fun to watch him developing his personality right in front of us!

I got some vital statistics from my mom this week, and found them very interesting.  As a recap, Brian was:
6 days late
Born at 0534
7 lbs and 9 oz
21" long

I was:
6 days late
Born at 0600
8 lbs and 3 oz
20 7/8" long

It's amazing how similar our statistics are!  Of course, at his one month check up Brian was 9 pounds 7 ounces and 22.5" long.  At one month I was 10 lbs 11 oz and 22" long, so I definitely didn't stay as long and thin at Brian is.  (I was about the 80th percentile in both height and weight at one month; Brian is about 90th percentile in height and 50th percentile in weight.)

Here are some pictures from this week.  I'm also including a video I took this morning from when he was sitting on my lap just being happy.  I hope you'll enjoy.  My favorite part is where he starts to sneeze and just makes a cute little noise!

Edit: Password is "close"

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Strong Boy!

Knock, Knock.  Brian telling his first joke?

He has definitely started watching his toys, especially the mobile on his swing.

A couple of shots of our happy little lion.  See more of this in the video.

Continuing the jungle theme, it's our little monkey.

All we are saying, is give PEAS a chance!

Tummy Time

Hanging with Daddy!

Brian playing on a blanket with his Grandma Amy

So sweet and sleepy!  Here we are, just sitting in the rocker together.

An artsy close up of us snuggling in the rocker.

He was definitely worth the wait!!

Family pictures

So, in honor of Brian's first month today, I decided to start a new tradition.  I'm going to find a way to get a picture of Cory and Brian and I all together on the 4th of every month to mark his monthly birthdays.  Just a silly way to be sure we get pictures of the family together.  However, today's picture shoot didn't turn out so well as he wasn't in the mood to be photogenic.  The best shot we got is below, and as you can see he's not even looking at the camera.  Cory was trying to soothe him so we could get a picture that didn't include him crying.  Oh well.  It's a start.  Maybe we'll get a good one this weekend.

Having Brian sleep in his own room last night worked out pretty well.  There are some kinks to work out, but I think we'll all sleep better from here on out. 

Video

Ok, so here's an attempt at sharing video of Brian.  Leave a comment and let me know if it works for you on your connection or not, so I'll know how to do this in the future.  There's a password (keeps random people from reusing the video other places) that is all lower case - "floor".

Enjoy watching him play on the floor.  :)

*edit* I'm working on the audio for this.  For some reason compressing the file ditched the sound - and that was half of the reason I posted it.  More (hopefully) soon. 


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