Just you two, then?

Things sure have been busy around here with our newest addition, Carter. We are so happy, we love having a sweet little spirit in our home. We recently moved to a new house, well new for us. . . pretty sure its about 40 years old but we LOVE IT. It has so much charm, with the right amount of character. We are renting it for a year, while the owners are away on an LDS mission in Bolivia. We feel very blessed to be able to treat their home as if it is our own. We will be sad to leave, I'm sure.

Words cannot even begin to explain the love we have for our little Cub. Cub is his new nickname, that or baby son or love chunks. He weighs just over 10 pounds now, at 3 weeks old, and he is 22 inches long. He's going to be a "tall boy", in the words of our Pediatrician. We are pretty taken by him, and we think he we will keep him around. He usually falls asleep around 9 PM. . . but he wakes up for his last feeding around 11. He's out by midnight and he doesn't wake up until like 4 or 5 AM. He then goes to bed and is out until 8 AM. He is a good baby. We couldn't be happier with our little son. Daddy changes (almost) all the nightly diapers and I do the feeding.

The other day,  I looked at JJ and said, "look what we made together. look at how beautiful this small little human is." Our lives have forever changed, in even the simplest of ways. For example, last night I had to pick up something from the store. As we were leaving the car, JJ locked the car and started to walk away. We looked at each other and started to laugh-- he had forgotten Carter was in the backseat, sound asleep in his little carseat. It only took us 5 seconds to realize the mistake. Then came the challenge of finding a shopping cart that we could put his car seat in. We didn't find one, so JJ just carried around our 10 pound son so I could pick up something. 

Then, we decided, "enough of the freezer meals", lets go somewhere. So we took Carter to his very first restaurant. What better place than Wingers? This is where daddy used to work and where our relationship "budded" all over again when we happened to bump into one another. The waitress looked at us, and said, "Just you two, then?" I smiled, and said, "Yeah. . . well, I mean, us THREE."

Life is beautiful, despite the dirty diaper changes, the spit up, and the learning to be a really fast shower taker and entertainer. . :) We couldn't be more in love with our son.