One month birthday

We've officially been parents for a month. The good news is that according to the stats the little guy is thriving.

6/19/08: Weighed 8 lbs, 14 oz and was 21.5 in long

7/17/08: Weighed 10 lbs, 8 oz and was 22.5 in long

We're really getting a sense of his personality. Saul makes great noises (particularly while eating), loves to lay on the floor and bat at his toys, and provides us with smiles that make it impossible to have a bad day.

Saul's first month

Here's an assortment of pictures taken in the last month. Saul's definitely the same little boy, but it's still amazing to see how fast he grows and how much he changes even daily. His toes now touch the end of the little booties that he wore home from the hospital and we were barely able to keep on him at the time because they were so big.

Saul chillin' with his dad, or papa. We haven't decided what we'd like Saul to call Aaron. Of course, Saul will ultimately decide.


This is one of my favorite pictures of Saul. There's so much character in his expression. And those bright eyes capture the essence of what I see in him - an alertness and interest in what's going on around him that has us saying, "But he's only X weeks old!" No, we're not proud parents!

The little guy is celebrating the 4th of July with all the energy he can muster after a good feeding.

And, a classic baby pose.

Saul Warren's birthday - June 19, 2008

I hope this is the last bit of catch up. Then the goal is to keep up-to-date with pictures and stories about Saul growing up. I still haven't gotten to the other reason for the name of my blog . . . another day.

Here's a picture of Aaron and me heading out the door to the hospital around 5:30 in the morning. It was taken by our doula, Jill, and is a good representation of how HUGE I got carrying our little guy.

We were so glad we had Doula Jill with us! I'm not sure that Aaron or I would have thought about morning traffic. But she made sure we understood that we should either go early or we wouldn't want to go until around 9 a.m. Things were moving quickly enough, we went for the earlier option and are very glad we did. Saul was born at 12:40 in the afternoon.

Here's a picture of Saul very shortly after he was born. It's one of my favorite pictures, partly because the facial expression is one that I continue to see and love.

And here's another picture of the little guy. In both this and the last picture, you can see that he had not yet been cleaned up. But, he had already made his first poo and was working on sucking.