Hanging with Braden

I thought I'd grab some pictures of you while Braden was holding you. You were fine at first and then when I kept moving you it just made you mad. You are so cute even when you are crying.

Sweet dreams

You continue to be a pretty good sleeper. You'll struggle the first couple hours at night and just want to eat, be held, or rocked but once you settle down you sleep for a couple hours at a time and you are great at going back to sleep on your own once your needs are met.

1 Month Old

One month older and wiser too! :)
You are one month old today! You continue to be such a sweet boy and an easy going baby. Your dad and I are so grateful that you are in our home, we love you so much! Braden still wants to hold you all the time. He'll come to me and say, "my hands are washed, now can I hold Spencer?" You are awake for hours at a time now and will just look around and make the funniest faces. You love when any of us sing to you and I've been rocking you to sleep as well and you seem to like that too.
and I have to give props to your aunt Abby because she made you the cute "month" onsies for your first year. It's so nice to have creative aunts!

More photos

Aunt Abby came to visit today and we thought it would be fun to take some more photos of you. You are so sweet and it's so fun to pose you and take new pictures. Abby brought this little pea pod to put you in and you didn't seem to mind a bit. We tried to take some more baseball ones as well but dang it, they just aren't working. This time you peed in the baseball mitt, oops! I cleaned it the best I could. You also peed on Blake's blanket which he wasn't happy about at all even after I told him I would wash it. I'm pretty sure it was worth it to get these cute pictures!


I, obviously, and loving my new camera that Brad and I got for Christmas and loving my new baby that we got for new years! LOL He is such a joy and I've had so much fun taking his pictures and thinking of new poses to put him in, I love that my other 3 boys are older and can help out with him and just let me enjoy holding him and watching him grow. I feel so blessed to have all 4 of my boys in our family, each is a blessing to me!

Trying again

I decided to try the tie photos again. This time I made sure you were good and warm and fast asleep. It took about 2 seconds before you peed all over the blanket and your tie but it was totally worth it. Look how cute you are!
Aunt Jess gave you this hat and even though it's to big for you right now I still think you make it look pretty good!

What do we do all day?

Pretty much I can't stand to put you down so I hold you all day. Lucky thing Megan Stohl let us borrow her sling and you love it! Yesterday you slept in it for a few hours, all nice and comfy snuggled by my side. I love to rock you and sing to you and I'm just so enjoying my sweet little boy. I love you so much!

Letting Go

These pictures make me want to chant big budha big budha oh ya but since you really have a little budha just a gigantic belly button I won't chant that at you!


You finally let go of your umbilical cord. I wasn't sure it was going to happen since you were hanging on pretty good, making your belly button pop out as to prevent the cord from drying out, but alas you let go! This morning I was pulling up your onsie to take a picture of how you wouldn't let go of your stump and there it was sitting on your belly all detached. Yay, since that means bath time! You liked your bath but mostly you LOVE getting your hair washed. You go into this completely relaxed state, it's so funny!