Christmas 2009

Merry Christmas!!
While we were sad to not see our families in Michigan this Christmas, we did have a wonderful and relaxing holiday this year. Greyson received lots of clothes and books - exactly what he wanted!!!

Greyson in his Bumbo seat -

Head of the table for Christmas dinner

Greyson and Mom Christmas morning

Greyson's holiday photo

Dad showing Greyson his new bath toys.

Thanks to the Blackaby's for these gifts!

Most of the family received some video of us opening gifts. Here we are opening Greyson's gift from Belgium:



More video to come of the gifts we opened from the Cowden family! Happy Holidays!

Greyson is 3 Months!

I wish I could report how wonderful the last month has been watching Greyson grow. The truth is that he is simply wearing us out!! My prediction is that he has begun teething (although nothing has cut through the surface yet). He shows all the symptoms including drooling, chomping on his fingers, and being fussy with his bottle. His milestones have not changed much from a month ago. However, he is definitely growing! Since we don't have a doctor's visit this month, Frank did an unofficial weighing of Greyson on the bathroom scale. He's at 16 pounds! Which means Greyson will graduate to the next size diapers (now on size 2-3). He is filling in his size 6 clothes which means we'll need sizes 6-9 and 9 very soon!

We're looking forward to our first Chrismas together and unfortunately will not be heading up to Michigan to see everyone. Maternity leave stripped me of all the vacation and sick time I had accumulated, leaving me with zero time off for the holidays.

While we're at it, a big Happy Birthday goes out to Nonna (12/14)!

New Parents Dinner Party

We've made some great friends with having a new baby on board. We were all in the same hospital class prior to delivering our newborns, though some of us had other connections. Sarah and I took Prenatal Yoga together, and Daniel and I met at UNCG during an alumni event on campus. Now we make sure to get together once a month for dinner and adult time. Call it an adult play date if you wish! And just to boast about how great all these new daddy's are, see the picture below...

That's right...while all the ladies of the group were sipping wine in the kitchen, all our men were taking care of the kids. What's not to love about these parties?!? Frank and I hosted the December party and Brian and Sarah hosted November. Stephanie and Chris have January and I'm pretty sure we're all looking forward to it.

We just want some sleep!

It's a darn thing Greyson is so cute!

I've officially returned to work and it's been difficult adjusting to the change. Going from seeing my little one all day long to only a couple hours a day has tried my emotions. While I pound the pavement in a challenging sales job, my thoughts often stray to Greyson and his big smiles. I know he is in good hands with our nanny, Anita, and consider ourselves very fortunate to be able to keep Greyson home in these early months. But my heart yearns to be with him more often. I now know how Frank felt after returning to work only a few short days after Greyson was born.

Also with my return to work comes the challenge of getting through the day with minimal sleep. Frank and I are still taking turns waking up and feeding Greyson, who just hasn't seemed to grasp sleeping through the night yet. He is keeping to eating every 4 hours during the night which puts wake up times around 11pm, 3am and 7am. Oy!

Our bodies are adjusting to the sleep deprivation, but hopefully we'll get more than a few hours at a time soon. I'll get a picture up of Anita with Greyson soon. I can't believe he is almost 3 months old!