We got smiles!

In fact we have been getting smiles for a while, but for the last week or so the smiles seem to be connected to attention we give to little Peanut and he is even giving out a little laugh once and a while.

We have been trying to get a photo of a smile for ages now, but they have been kind of fleeting - till now. So here is a picture!!!

(: Reggie

And the prize goes to... LOGAN!!!

Now don't freak by the title of this post, i did not enter him into some sort of cutesy baby beauty pageant, but if i did he would win of course.

Yesterday we went to our family reunion, held at Narracan Falls in Gippsland, nearly two hour drive from home.

As soon as we got there Peanut was the star! People who i did not know, but apparently i am related to in one way or another, kept coming up to me and telling how gorgeous Logan is - well derrrrr, i could have told them that!!! Some people an opinion on how he was dressed for the day;

"he should have a hat on"
"he does not need socks on with the weather today"
"clothes for babies these day look too grown up"
"that top does not match the pants he is wearing" but then he did chuck on the matching top ealier in the day

and my favourite comment, not clothes related;

"are you sure he is a boy? He looks too pretty to be a boy" WTF??? crazy relos!!!

So anyway, not long after we arrived the parental, the sister of g, 2 aunts and 2 uncles and a grandparental arrived and set up a picnic table. We had a scrummo lunch and as we finished eating were asked to gather round for announcements and awards. There was one award that we were there for in particular, the youngest!

The grandparental missed out on being the oldest by only a couple of months, but Logan was the youngest by far! And we were given a little trophy to commemorate this.

There are two sides of the family, the swamps and the hills, or as they are also referred to the John and Emma side (the swamps) and the Tom and Annie side (the hills). We are from the hills and though Logan is not he youngest on the hills side - he was the youngest there and that is all that matters. The winner of youngest on the swamps side was a little girl called Matilda who was born in December, so that means that Logan was actually the youngest there from both sides.

We were also awarded with the most generations there, seeing as we had my grandfather, parents, me and son - four generations present.

Previously my little group of the family have missed out on these awards - i missed getting youngest, a few years ago now, only by a couple of weeks - and now because of Logan, we walked away with two awards.

Logan - an award winning baby - an over achiever at five and a half weeks - and cute as a button to boot.

(: Reggie

How fast they grow!

It is hard to think that as of tomorrow Peanut, I mean Logan is a month old already! And he has grown sooo much!

We visited the baby health centre today to have his four week check up and he is putting weight well, his head has gotten bigger (literally) and he is longer (taller) as well. He also looks different from the little baby that we brought home a month ago. He is still the same baby, he does not look THAT different, but he does not have the same "new born" face the he had - does that make sense?

So what has the last month been like? Fantastic!!!

Have we been able to get enough sleep? Not at all!!!

Do we know what Logan wants by the tone of his cries? Would not have a clue!!!

It seems that every time someone says "you both seem to be coping well with being first time parents" we will have the afternoon / evening from hell, like he hears us being told what a good job we are doing and thinks to himself - can't let them get a big head.

But we are not doing to bad. He has been gaining growing nicely between every baby health visit and is having more awake time and increasing in alertness. His reflects are as they should be and he is learning how to 'self settle' (going to sleep on his own in his cot).

It is funny when people ask about the birth and whether i would do it again, the answer to that is - yes. The brain has sufficiently blocked out enough of the trauma of child birth that i would consider going through it again. But is the brain going to block out the trauma of a new born enough for us to want to do again? Only time will tell.

(: Reggie