Timmy's First Halloween

Halloween was pretty low-key around here this year. Timmy did get the day off to a great start though by sleeping for two 3.5 hour stretches last night! We put Cate's giraffe costume back on her and she didn't mind at all today. She never even pulled at the hood or fussed. She just put it on and ran around outside in the leaves. It was pretty chilly this afternoon, so Timmy stayed in the house, but he wore his festive pumpkin shirt from my friend Jamie.

As you can see, Cate was once again delighted with the chance to get to hold him and she cried when I picked him up again. She just kisses him and puts her face next to his and imitates the tone that we use when we talk to them. What cute Halloween pumpkins we have!

A Very Solemn Giraffe

This morning Cate, Timmy and I went over to Grammy's school for the Halloween parade. All of the preschoolers were dressed up and sang songs, so I thought that Cate should put her costume on too. She never cracked a smile the entire time, but she didn't really complain either. It was a pretty warm morning, so she might have been a bit hot in her giraffe costume. Timmy slept in his stroller the whole time. I didn't quite manage to get him dressed up; as it was, I was literally running around the house to try to get us all out the door since Cate slept until almost 9 this morning. Doesn't she make an adorable little giraffe?!

Fall Days

We have not had much Fall like weather around here, but the last few days have been nice. Yesterday my mom and I took Cate and Timmy out for a walk in the park with Zeke and afterwards, Cate had a great time playing in the leaves in the back yard. Here are a few shots of the day.

Whenever Cate sees Timmy in his stroller or in the crib, she says, "Hi hi hi hi"

All bundled up!

One Month Old

Baby Timmy is one month old today!  Here he is getting ready to watch the Hawkeyes beat the Badgers yesterday.

Then we decided to try to pose Cate and Timmy to take a picture for a birth announcement for him.  It's not easy to secure a one month old in the lap of an almost 16 month old.  Cate was so funny though because she was so excited to get to hold him.  This was the first time we let her try but since Timmy's arrival, she's been practicing with her dolls.  She was never really interested in dolls before, but now she carries them around the house, patting them on the back and kissing the tops of their heads.  She was more than happy to hug and kiss Timmy.  Of course she  threw in the occasional eye poke or head squeeze, but she was cute nonetheless.  Unfortunately, Timmy doesn't look very happy in most of these pictures so I don't think they'll make it to the announcement.  Thanks to Meredith for the adorable little outfit for him!

Relaxing After His Bath

Timmy is about three and a half weeks old and is getting big fast!  He is more and more alert during the day and seems to be taking in his surroundings.  Over the weekend, I thought that he had turned the  corner in terms of night sleep, he still woke up twice during the night to eat, but actually slept in between the feedings.  Last night was a setback as I'm pretty sure that he was up from 12-4:30 and then was up again at 6.  Let's hope he gets back to sleeping tonight!  Here are a few pictures of him just relaxing after his bath in his cozy dinosaur sleep sack from Grandma Diane.

Two Weeks Old

Timmy is two weeks old today!  I had started to think that he was settling into a good sleep pattern...just waking up around 2am to eat, but last night he woke up at 2 and stayed up until 6.  Hopefully tonight will be better!  Here are just a few pictures of the last few days.  Timmy spends most of his days bundled up, sleeping in his basinet or swing, so I don't have very many good pictures of him yet.  He's wide awake in the middle of the night, but I'm not really in the mood to get the camera out then!

Cate likes to say, "Hi hi hi" to Timmy when she sees him but also likes to give him a (really hard) pat on the head and push his swing...really hard.  She is definitely displaying some signs of jealousy and is having some trouble adjusting to having to share mommy and daddy.  Luckily, we have lots of help from Grammy, Pop and Grandma to ease the transition.