First Trip

Last week we took our first family trip together and drove all the way up to my parent's summer house in Michigan...a 12-14 hour drive with a normal number of stops, closer to 16 stopping every 3 hours to feed and change him.  We did stop overnight though, because I didn't think driving straight through was a good idea.  Colton was a champ going out and slept almost the whole way.  He was wide awake once we stopped, but luckily we stopped early and R took him into Cabela's, where he could stare at the ceiling lights while R checked out all the hunting/fishing stuff.   He did really well in a new environment too.  Our biggest concern was of course his sun exposure, but we took walks in the evening or early morning when there was still plenty of shade, and we took his bouncer and put it in his little outdoor baby play tent when we were outside or out on the dock since there was always a nice breeze and it soothed him right to sleep.  That tent was awesome.

We plan on going back up in a few weeks when my parents will also be there.   I'm hoping by that point he is starting to focus more on faces and objects, but since he falls anywhere between 3 weeks adjusted age and 8 weeks, I've got a pretty broad timeline to guess at.

Newborn photos.

I had looked around for a photographer back in May, but most were ridiculously expensive, charged a la carte for the prints, or didn't offer a high res CD with reproduction rights, or all of the above.  Rich found our photographer, a co-worker in the process of expanding his photography hobby into a full time business.  He came to our house, did about a 2 hour session, and gave a CD with all our photos.   These are a few of my favorites.

Photos taken by Matt Schreier Photography.

 

1 month old!!

Originally I wasn't going to bother with those monthly pictures, because I thought they were kind of silly.  Now that Colton is here, I think they are pretty damn cute.  Of course, I had to make my own stickers rather than using the same ones as everyone else.  Unfortunately, while he is on paternity leave, Rich is locked out of his computer....and our only home printer, so we used my mom's printer and the 1st month came out too big, but we went with it anyway.  Getting him to actually look somewhat content was near impossible, but that ended up for the best, because some of the shots were hilarious and it looks like he is giving a big F U to his age sticker.