We took Hamilton ice-skating for the first time. He had lots of fun. Just Mark and Hamilton skated - I stayed with Luke and took pictures. They skated around the rink like this for about an hour before Hamilton was cold (forgot the mittens and coat) and Mark's feet were aching. Honestly, I forgot how cold it is inside an ice rink - next time I'll remember to bring our warm accessories :)
Mark and Hamilton cleaned out and carved our pumpkin. Hamilton wasn't so sure about the seeds, strings, and mess involved. Hamilton picked out a silly face to carve - I don't have the finished product in a picture...I'll post with our Halloween pictures.
I can't believe the little man is 1 month old today. Time has flown and crawled all at once. Crawled in that the newborn stage is much harder than we remember, but flown in that I feel like we just got home from the hospital yesterday. He is doing well overall. Eating every 3.5/4 hours, nursing great, and gaining weight - he's 9.5 lbs. now and starting to chubby up a bit. He's quite alert and awake a lot - doesn't sleep nearly as much during the day that Hamilton did. He's not as much of a fan of the swing, but does enjoy the bouncy and play-mat. Luke is quite gassy and needs gas drops after almost every feeding. Right now he takes his last feeding around 11:00, goes until about 3 or 4 in the morning and then eats again around 7 or 8 - not too bad for a wee 1 month old :) He loves to be swaddled, but only in the fleece swaddle and to fall asleep he likes to be rocked with his head just slightly tilted backwards over your elbow so that it rocks pretty heavily back and forth. In looking back at the pictures of Hamilton at 1 month I realized that I could dress Luke in the same outfit. (I know I won't be able to do that each month since we are opposite seasons so I thought I'd put Luke in the same top for his 1 month shots on the same blue dog I took all of Hamilton's on). So here are Luke's pictures. I've added one of Hamilton at the bottom just for comparison sake. I do think they look alike - at least enough to be brothers!
Just wanted to show you how red-ish his hair is - Hamilton did not have this color at all - hopefully he'll stay red :)
And here is Big Brother back on 5.11.07...
That's all for now - I'll update again after Halloween so you can see what Hamilton decided to dress up as this year and the boys together. Thanks for all your texts, phone calls, emails, meals, prayers, and overall support of our family - we really appreciate the outpouring of love!!
Oh and just so you know I do know how to dress a baby for Fall weather - pants and socks were what he was wearing all day, just took off the pants for the pictures so he could show some leg :)
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