Max and Darwyn colouring

Max and Darwyn colouring

Thursday, July 16, 2015

Blast from the past

 For those of you that have been with us from the beginning, you will know that we started this blog when Max was already 9 months old with a lame post about football.  As we plan on keeping the blog as a record for our children of their childhood, we have often talked about how we should put up some of the very early pictures and videos we have of Max.  We nearly lost most of them when our hard drive died and we had failed to back it up.  Thankfully, Gus recovered everything in an elaborate operation, but it did remind us of the importance of getting Max's baby videos up.  So here are a few. (Sorry the alignment is all screwy...I decided it wasn't worth my time to fix it.).  Enjoy the blast from the past!









Mom right after Max was born.


Max right after Max was born.





 3 weeks old

Weighing

Aunty Mel and baby

Proud  grandparents

Proud  Grandma

Mommy asleep with baby

Tired daddy


Mom and Max

Max in the leaves

Do these make me look cute?

Who am I?





I always said mom weaned us off breast milk onto ice tea.  













Watching the campfire with Aunty Sue


 And videos:


















More pictures and videos soon!





Thursday, June 18, 2015

Ada's first few weeks

The first few weeks of Ada's life have flown by.  She is already 3 weeks old.  She continues to be a very easy baby and almost never cries.  My recovery has been very rapid.  I'm already back to sports, although tentatively.

Ada is giving us lots of sleep, by newborn standards.  The longest over night stretch she managed was 6 hours and she did that in her first week of life!   She still sleeps most of the time, but she is starting to be more alert.  She loves hanging out on her change table with no diaper on staring at her mobile.  Unfortunately the mobile crank broke so one of us needs to stand there and turn it for her!

Max and Darwyn dote on Ada.  They love to hug her and go to her instantly if she cries.  Darwyn is especially obsessed.  She talks to Ada constantly, helps with every diaper change, gives her a soother and even helped grandma give her a bottle.  Both kids like to help burp Ada and they both ask to hold her relatively regularly, so we've had lots of opportunity for good photo shoots (see a few below).



I love this costume.


Dar gives Ada her first ever bottle.