Big Brothers

The other day Tyler was holding Spencer and singing to him. He was singing I am a child of God and Gethsemane to him and every time Tyler would quit singing Spencer would start to fuss a little and then Tyler would start singing again and he'd stop fussing and just listen. It was so cute and Ty sang to him for about 15 minutes straight. Such a good big brother, both Ty and Blake love to sing to Spencer and I love that they do!


You are so lucky to have such great big brothers. A few times a day Blake will come up to me and point to you and then point to him. I'll ask him if he wants to hold you and he'll get a big grin and say yes. I give you to him and about a minute later he'll point to you and then point to me and I'll say are you done and he'll say yes. He's so funny about it because he rarely asks to hold you he mostly just does this funny little grin as he points. Ty loves you as well and is always trying to get a turn in before Mr. Braden takes you and won't give you back. Braden is our resident baby hog and he would love to hold you all morning and all afternoon up until bedtime. He usually holds you while he's doing his reading homework. The other night he was laying on the floor by you teaching you about baseball. That same night a yankees hat and jersey appeared in your room. I'm guessing Braden decided to take it upon himself to put up some decorations since I haven't yet. :)

Tummy Time

You are such a mellow baby. You don't mind tummy time at all. Although I had to laugh because usually babies lay on their tummies and lift their head up, which is the point of being on your tummy. You on the other hand lay your head down and then you scrunch your legs up and lift your butt up. You must be Braden's brother, shaking your booty already! :) Eventually you'll turn your head over and today I was on one side and Blake on the other. Blake was laughing when you would turn towards him, he's such a great big brother and always so helpful!

Just because

I love when he's awake because you'll shoot your eyes back and forth back and forth at first like you know somethings up but you just haven't figured it out. I'll let you in on the secret of what's up, you have 3 crazy older brothers!

Sleeping

You are such a good baby and I'm so thankful for that. Last night you were struggling going to sleep and I thought wow I shouldn't have bragged you up to the neighbors when they were here because now you are showing me. I fed you 4 times and finally fed you 2 oz out of a bottle. That did it, you were sound asleep after that. Four hours later I woke you up because I was worried at how long you had slept. I got some good sleep but for the last 40 minutes I was awake watching you thinking you'd wake up any minute. I remember doing the same thing with Tyler and asking the dr. if that was normal. I thought it was a fluke but then after I fed you, you went back to sleep for 4 more hours and I had to wake you up again. I know some people probably think why would I wake you up but since you were in the NICU and wouldn't eat real well I just want to make sure that you are okay.

Little things

I love your little hands and little feet. Little is relative since you have really long fingers and pretty big feet for how tiny you are.

I tried

There was the cutest picture on pintrest of a baby boy just wearing a tie. I decided to try it . . . . my bad! I probably should have waited until Spencer was completely asleep so I didn't shock his little body every time I lifted the blanket off. He looks so skinny in some of these and even though they weren't what I was going for (I'll have to try again) they sure do make me laugh.

1 week today

Spencer is 1 week old today, wahoo! Yesterday after I picked up Blake from school Blake was singing to him in the car, "Spencer you are the best one in our family. I'm so glad you are in our family!"
We sure love you so much!