Third Week

I can't believe 3 weeks have went by already! It's going too fast. Here are some highlights of the past week.

Saturday - we went to Brent's surprise 30th birthday party at Stonehedge Bowling Alley. Lily loved the balloons. Later that day we got Dillon's newborn pictures taken at the house. And his belly button stub fell off an hour after his photos!!

It's hard to tell but she's wearing a "Big Sister" shirt we found at Babies R Us.

The birthday boy! Tim, Babe and Lily and David

Brent and Megan. Megan is due in late April.

Video of Lily playing with her balloons.

Babe bowling...look at that form...way to go, Babe!

The 4 of us and Brent & Megan.

Dillon's first tub bath!

All clean and in cute puppy jammies from GiGi.

Monday - we went to Cheeseburger in Paradise to celebrate Jill's 29th Birthday. Below is Josh, David and Babe. After dinner we went to see their new house. It is a really cute house, and they've really made it look nice. They are moving in this weekend.The birthday girl and her fiance, Josh

Wednesday - Lily decided to TP our bathroom/kitchen!

We started Potty Training this week. So far we've let Lily explore her potty and she sits on it with her clothes on. She also flushes the potty and puts the seat down. Today she actually told me that she pooped right after she did it. So, we are taking it slow and I'm sure it won't be long until she goes in it.

Thursday - Jen and Zack came for a visit. It was really good to see them and catch up. The kids played great together and shared toys very well!

Friday - I got my wound vac off today! I am so relieved. It was such a pain to carry that thing around, especially at 3 in the morning. Also, today Dillon is 3 weeks old.

Lily coloring in her highchair.

He was naked from me feeding him, so I left him that way for the photo.

More of the professional pics

These are our favorites that we wanted to share with everyone. Here is the link to all of the pictures if you are interested in seeing them.

http://melissareynoldsphotography.com/clients/Dillon/#

Click on the 'Enter Full Screen' link. The slideshow will automaticallybegin. You can click on Proofing to enter the proofing gallery. The password for the proofing gallery is Dillon.

We hope you enjoy them. We sure have.

Dillon's Professional Pictures

As you all might remember when Lily was 4 weeks old, we had a photographer come to our house and take pictures of her. Well we contacted her again earlier this past week and we had her come out yesterday and take pictures of Dillon. Once all of the pictures are available, I will post the link so you can see them all, but for tonight there are only 3 that the photographer puts on her blog. Without further adieu, here they are:

She told us that the pictures will be done within a week so we will let you know when they are ready. Have a good week!

Random pics from this week

Katy & Kai came to visit on Tuesday. Here are a few pics from their visit. We are so excited that Kai and Dillon are so close in age. Can't wait to watch them grow up together!

Isn't he a cutie?

Sleeping angel

Lily loves bath time. She can say "bath" and "tub" now and will grab Anson's hand to take her up for her bath.

I must admit this is a boring video. It's of Dill in his bouncer with the hiccups. Newborns just don't do much!

Dillon is two weeks old today! He wasn't a happy boy when I took these. He was still hungry.

Lily turned 22 months yesterday. Her vocabulary is exploding. She repeats everything we say. We've been teaching her the alphabet and she repeats it pretty well. I tried to get her on video saying it, but I didn't have luck. I'll try again this weekend.

Dillon is getting his pictures taken tomorrow. The same woman who photographed Lily when she was 4 weeks is coming back to our house tomorrow to photograph Dillon.

I got some good news today. I went in to the Wound Center to get my vac changed, and it is already healing very well. The nurse was amazed that I had only had it since Tuesday. She predicted that it would heal enough over the weekend that they won't put it back on when I go back on Monday morning. I hope so! It's a pain to carry around.

First Week with Two

Anson and I survived our first week with two kids under two. It sure is challenging. And to top it off, my C-section incision wound split open (sorry if that's graphic) after I got my staples taken out so I'm in a lot of pain and can't do as much as I'd like to. Good thing Anson's mom and my parents were here to help us out!

I have to have a vacuum hooked up to me to drain out all the fluid from my wound. It's a machine I have to wear 24/7 for several weeks, maybe months. It stinks! I'm on some pretty powerful drugs to keep me from feeling it. Poor Anson has to help me change my bandages until I get my vacuum, which should be on Tuesday.

Here are some pics from this past week... (no c-section pics for the record)

Lily holding her baby brother for a second...before she started pushing him away.

Lily won't drink water unless it's from my big cup that I got at the hospital or her Papa's big water bottle. This bottle is as big as she is!

Grandpa Cross drove up on Thursday to see Dillon and take Grammy Cross back home. They left early this morning.
When Lily saw this picture she said "Grammy!"

Since there were a lot of cameras around this week, Lily decided to pretend to take photos with Grammy's camera. I told Anson we need to dig out an old 35mm camera for her to play with.

One week old photo! The sign says "I'm 1 week old today. 3/13/09. (Friday the 13th) (My due date). His shirt says "New in Town."

Family of Four - photo at The Hartville Kitchen last night

Jeremy, Grammy and Lily, Anson, Me and Dillon and Grandpa. Jeremy's new friend Heather was also there. She took the photos for us.

Lily playing with the train

Me and my baby at Hartville Kitchen. Grammy and Dillon

Lily eating a lemon! She loves them.

Lily watching Barney in my rocking chair.

First tummy time! He's very strong. He already has pretty good control of his head. He picks it up and moves it around a lot.

Today we made it to Babies R Us. My co-workers got us a bunch of gift cards and it seems like we've been trying to go there all week, but for one reason or another we never made it there until today. We got Lily's potty so I can start potty training her. We got her a step stool so she can see into the pack n play. She was climbing up the side to see Dillon. We got another diaper pale for downstairs. We got Lily a "Big Sister" shirt. And other stuff we needed. It was fun to get out. Before we went we stopped at Chick fil a for dinner. Yum yum!