Future Daddy

LT shows off his superior fathering skills of his Kitty.

Bath

Brush

Undies

New Outfit

Helping Kitty admire herself (Yes, Kitty is a girl who wears camo boxer briefs)


Obligatory cute baby picture.

One Week Old

A photo session in honor of being one week old!






Fits in the belly cast!


Brothers



For comparison, BLT when he was one week old. I wish we had a better camera back then!

First Ped Visit

Mr. BDT had his first visit to the peditrician today, at not quite 4 days old.

He was born at 8lb6oz and was 7lb14oz Wednesday morning when we were at the hospital. At the ped's, they had us undress him and the nurse weighed him. It said 8lb10oz. When the Dr. came in, he said... "I don't believe that. Let me get a new scale." It was so funny. The new scale said 8lb6oz, so not as much, but the Dr still thought it was pretty amazing since they don't even look for infants to gain their weight back until 2 weeks and he was just 4 days old. I was pretty floored myself. That's 1/2lb in less than 2 days! He's going to be out of his 0-3 month clothes and little diapers FAST. Crazy! Guess my milk is working!

At the peds:


The impressive scale measurement:


Showing off his amazing thumb sucking ability...


BLT is being a great big brother! He such a sweetheart.

Lil Bro

Good thing we tied up those loose ends! BDT ("baby" D.T.) decided to surprise us and make his appearance on his actual due date! Wow! The delivery was not as fast as the nurses predicted as BDT was face up and that stalled the labor. Once he flipped around with some positioning help, he was out in less than 5 minutes of pushing.

He was born on April 28 at 4:07pm.
8lbs 6oz and 20-1/4" long, not to mention cute!

Big brother is very excited to have little brother finally come out and join him! We're all home now and doing well.

Just born.



The Big Bro:

Tying Up Loose Ends

Since tomorrow is Baby 2's due date, we needed to tie up some loose ends today.

The belly cast:

Hasn't been compared extensively with LT's yet, since it was still drying. Look like this belly was more out in front. Perhaps that's why two people asked me if it was twins this weekend?!?!?

And the all important "belly" photo shoot:


The photographer studies his work:

Air Guitar

** Note: This is my first attempt with the google video uploader... please excuse any mishap.

Our little Air Guitar master:





Of course, the best one was before I ran in to get the camera! That was complete with going down to the knees on the grass.

Update on #2. Will be here on May 8th at the latest. Yes, that is still 2 weeks from now. :D

Our turn for Grandma Fun!

Grandma arrived just in time! LT was sick last week and now I'm sick and TT, too. Not to mention, I'm exhausted... LT was able to go back to daycare today so we can get some of our "projects" done before the big arrival.

Here's some pictures from last week.

Is that a big baby?


LT and Gma play "dino stories" using the dart board in a very creative manner.



Then we set up one of the best train tracks ever (in my opinion!) in the back.


And there was even a "bubbletown" bath!


Baby bro should arrive in the next two weeks. Hopefully not for a few days as we're still sick. Bleh.

Busy Weekend

Finally we had some warm weather (it seems like winter's been going on forever, but it's probably normal) and it got in the 80's over the weekend! We had the brilliant idea to go to the beach along with a lof of other people.

Waiting to ride!

Helicopters...

Dragons...

Trucks...


Even a rollercoaster!



Then we were off to the beach. We didn't bring our swimsuits thinking that it would be colder at the shore, but it wasn't! I had to buy a bathing suit bottom out of the sale box, TT found some shorts in the back of his car and LT had to make do in his Handy Manny undies. It was so fun!


Sunday we hit up the Home & Garden show and LT even made a fire truck!

Moon Sand!

LT got this moon sand playset for his birthday last year and then he got a very nice and unexpected "big brother" gift from my friends P & M with different colors of moon sand and stamps last week. (BTW, loyal readers P & M, LT is going around saying how nice P & M are and how he really likes you guys. :D Thank you!)

I must admit when we first got the playset, I was skeptical. Probably because we were trying to play inside and blue sand went everywhere, so it was designated an "outdoor toy" and set in the garage all winter. Now that it is nice out, we took it all outside and I have to say ... it is really fun! I think it will get a lot of playtime this summer. It's not exactly like playdough where you form a shape, it works better with molds. I'm not sure who enjoyed it more, the 3 year old or the 30 year old.



Showing off a molded alligator.


And this one I just think is funny!

Yard Work!

It's never to early to start mowing! Or is it? Well, he only "helped" for about 2 rows.


This vine had been bothering me for a while, just so overgrown and taking over the fence. I started trying to cut it back and then it started to fall, so we decided to pull it all down...


LT gets in the spirit of things!


TT singlehandedly drags the entire vine out to the front!


LT poses with the vine to give you an idea of how big it really was!


TT had to spend the next couple hours fnishing off the vine and digging up the three enormous roots. I'll see if I can get a picture of the biggest one tomorrow. That was one amazing thing. It looks like it was originally on a trellis and then was just left to grow.

Easter Day

LT could hardly have been more excited than he was for "Easter Day." He wanted an egg hunt so bad! So we had one ...

Do you see any eggs hiding here?



It was very sucessful. The eggs had some chocolates and then stretchy dinos and dino tattoos.

After the big hunt, LT helped me put together baby's chair while BLTSr put together the crib. It's not just a baby chair, it's also a kid chair!

'Crosse Game

We went to our 2nd professional lacrosse game today. What? You're shocked that San Jose has a professional lacrosse game? Oh wait, we were, too.

Not only do we have a team! They have banners for all the players hanging up downtown:


Here's the Stealth super fans!


I asked BLT Sr to take some action shots ... um this wasn't exactly what I was thinking of:

This is what I would call a BAD EXAMPLE. Fortunately, LT remembered later on that after the fighting, they got a time out on the bench. This is when we have to hold up our signs...



Finally some real action!


It was a very exciting game. We won with a goal with 4sec left to play!

Is it summer yet?

I know we haven't posted in awhile, therefore losing even our most loyal blog readers. But you can't do something fun or picture worthy every day, can you??



Last weekend we pretended it was summer and pumped up the sprinkler ball. I'm not sure it was really quite warm enough, but it was nice and sunny. It was fun. Too bad that night, LT came down with a high fever and sickness that lasted almost 3 days. Guess it wasn't really summer yet? Really, I think he picked it up at the indoor playground where his daycare has been meeting for the last two weeks due to a serious plumbing problem at the house. I like to refer to the playground as "hotbed of sickness." Poor LT hadn't been sick in over a year, probably.




Finally he was feeling better and Wednesday evening we were listening to some cds in his room when the alphabet song came on. I started writing down the letters as they were saying them and then he erased them and took his turn. I was pretty impressed! This is with no help - I did try and tell him the line when on the other side for the d, but he emphatically told me that "no it doesn't." Daddy came home right after "E," so who knows if this was the end or if he could have kept going?? He's a bit of a perfectionist, so he gets frustrated if he doesn't know how to do something and then just stops trying. Hopefully, he'll grow out of that some.