poke it with a stick. image gallery

sleepy boy 1

a rare moment of being awake! it often feels like he doesnt take naps through out the day, but rather that he takes short breaks from his 24 hours of sleeping to look around for a minute or two, then back to sleepy time!

aunt guests

aunt carol was so amazed at how little he is!

aunt marlene giggled at our cute little guy about as much as i do!

beaming with pride! she's got 37 great grandkids, but she's still just as excited by ledger as she was the first one!

cousins

aves just wanted to keep touching him!

she got really excited when we told her that she could hold him again if she wanted!

bubba has a knife collection (kind of scary to me, but his dad is cool with it, so so am i) and loves to show them off. i recently received a cool batman logo shaped knife from jeffry lee, so i passed it along to add to his growing stash of knives (dont worry, i oked it with tim first!). bubba wanted me to pass this along: 'thank you mr. jeff!' what a good kid, huh?

on the hunt

and she's off! find as many as possible, tweets!

she's got the single-minded intensity of a terminator- must find eggs!

bubba peeks around every little bush and plant- he knows the best places to look!

to the victor goes the spoils- yummy!

among the brinks

when they arrived they quickly gathered around to meet the new little bundle of joy!

of all the kids, avery was the most excited to see little ledger. maybe because she is the youngest in her family and never got to see her sister or brother as babies, but she was completely enamored with our little guy! she just wanted to keep holding him as long and as often as possible! look at that smile on her face!

tweets was really excited to see little ledger. in a few years she is going to be such a good babysitter!

bubba thought this little guy was pretty cool! i'm sure he's already looking forward to messing around with ledger!

family comes a knockin'

diana, her dad, ledger and i. what a happy family!

aunt gayle was so excited to see our little one!

dad takes a few minutes to talk silly with his new grandchild!

what a proud grandpa!

dad just couldnt take his eyes off of ledger- i'm pretty sure he likes him!

look at how tiny he is! for the first week of having him, i spent most of my time with him just giggling at how little he was!

burpy time

sometimes diana burps him too, she doesn't put him over her shoulder, instead she sits him up, puts a burp cloth in front of him, and pats his back to get those burpys up.

he's not always so fond of these sorts of burpy times- look at those hilarious forehead wrinkles!

great grandma's joy

four generations of family- great grandma, grandma, mom, and son. what a blessed moment together!

bill seemed a bit uncertain of what to do with ledger, but got a good laugh out of his own clumsiness!

a quite look of joy and pride. we will miss you, grandma!

home and sleepy 3

ledger, are you trying to peek out of there with out us noticing?

zzzzzzzzzzz...

ledger doing one of his patented turtle neck stretches!

look, ledger made a friend! take good care of him, squirtle!

zzzzzzzzzz...

home and sleepy 2

what a goofy face he's making here!

for the first little while he didnt really want a pacifier, instead he would just suck on his lower lip!

look at those huge lips! diana says that they come from me. i guess i had never noticed if i have big lips or not, all the hair on my face kind of makes it hard to tell!

sleepy little baby!

so cute!!!

home and sleepy 1

this became a bit of a trend: fall fast asleep as soon as dad holds you. tell you what, i sure didnt mind!

his hand sure is wrinkly! well, i guess he was in amniotic fluid for the past nine months- he's probably still drying out!

'oh dad, it is too bright!' poor thing...

rockin!

after she saw me rocking ledger, she wanted a try too!

poco is not allowed in ledger's room, but he was really really wanting to come in! we told him to go to his bed, and here he is on the corner of it leaning out to see into the room where diana is rocking ledger! what a goofy dog, huh?

poco, meet ledger

after two and a half days away, poco was sooo excited to see his meem!

look- we match!

poco was so curious as to what ledger was all about. he would walk up and sniff the air trying to figure it out! he would start to loose interest, and then ledger would move his leg and poco would be focused again!