A little Cole in real life

Sleeping Sweetly

I sleep so sweetly.

For anecdotal interest, here's a lesson in bad parenting. One afternoon Momma was changing my diaper and after she was done realized she must've dropped the cap to the diaper creme. She looked for it everywhere around where we were but couldn't find it. She even opened my diaper to see if she had accidentally dropped it in there. Still no cap. She finally gave up, but oh, if I could only TALK I knew where it was!!

3 hours goes by.....

Diaper change time again. Mama goes to change my diaper and HAHA! There is the cap! It had dropped far enough back in my diaper that he didn't see it the first time. Momma felt terrible because I had quite a nice little cap mark on my tush where the cap had been pushing into me for the last 3 hours. Alas, I guess that's what you have to go through being a first child.

I won't tell you about a few days after that when Momma found a little piece of pizza crust in my diaper. It was hard enough that I also had a little mark on my leg from where IT had been pressing into me. They're still not sure how it got in there...oh the things I have to go through while they learn this whole parenting thing.

They really do love me though :)

4 weeks old!!!

Momma and Daddy thought it would be fun to show you how much I've grown. Below is me at 1 day old in the little shirt the hospital puts you in when you're born.

And here I am in that same shirt on my 4-week-old birthday! Look how big I am and how big my tummy has gotten :). I'm a little chubster.

Grrrrrrrr!!!!

Momma and Daddy got such a kick out of dressing me up in this little outfit that I got as a gift.

It ws Greg Hawkins' birthday so we got to go on an outing. We don't get to do that very often so it was very exciting.
Daddy wants a matching one, but they didn't have any at the store.

My thoughts on pacifiers

Usually this is how I am, just like my daddy - ready for a nap.

But every now and then I get a little fussy, so Momma andDaddy have tried to get me to take a pacifier. Here I am wondering if they're going to try to stick that thing in my mouth yet again. Yes, they tried again, and as usual I let them know what I thought about it. You would think they would get the picture by now but they still try every now and then, and this is always my response unless they put me in the car. Sometimes in the car the paci is the least of all the evils (the worst of which is my car seat).

My friend Bear Vickery is not born yet although he'll be here by Monday unless he comes before then, but his Mama Miss Julie made this little onesie for me with the frog embroidered on it. She also embroidered one for me with little ducks on it. I'm wearing it today in honor of Bear and his impending arrival.

Daddy and me yesterday when he came home from work. He works so hard and sometimes I keep him up at night which makes him even more tired.

More visitors! This is m great-aunt Nancy (Daddy's aunt) who came from Alabama.

This is me with Diane Sawyer, she's practically part of our family because of how close she is to my great-great-aunt Mary Tom

And here I am with my great-great-aunt Mary Tom. She's very special to Mommy and Daddy and lives in Tennessee so I was very glad she came to visit so I could see her.

Our first walk. For the record, I do NOT like my car seat. I am a very complacent child except when they stick me in that thing.

We walked to Aunt Rachel's house and back again. We had planned on a longer walk but that was all we could handle.

Mama's company gave me this little Bomgar onesie, and LaDonna, one of mommy's co-workers knitted me the little cap and booties that you see in the picture below.
All dressed up and no place to go...

This is one of Mama and Daddy's favorite things to laugh about. After I nurse I can barely move a muscle while Mama burps me, I'm just so full. Every day is like Thanksgiving in my world currently. They call me their sweet little Slug when I'm like this. I'm not sure if that's a nice thing or not since I don't know what a slug is, but I'll find out soon enough.

I keep hearing about how my love of sleep runs in the family. Case in point, here is Pappy who came to visit me one day. He must've seen me sleeping and decided it was nap time.

Mama doesn't take many pictures of herself at this point becuase she usually doesn't fix her hair or her face and leaves her pjs on all day, but this particular day she decided that we needed a few pictures together or people woudln't think I had a Mama

I was sleeping on Mama and I put my hands so cute all folded that she needed some pictures

Mama wanted me to note that these were very tricky to take becuase I'm laying on her chest so she took them blindly holding the camera over both of us.

This shot shows off my growing cheeks and double chin that I've been working on

My Mama loves me so much :)

A little photo shoot with Mama

My Aunt Jill got me this cute little onesie. The tie is painted onto it for those who are wondering

And here is Aunt Jill, home from college to visit me finally. She brought me the sheep you can see in the picture as well.

All this playing makes a growing boy tired. This outfit I only wore twice before I grew out of it. Everyone told Mama how fast I would grow, but she just didn't realize how quickly I really would grow. I was 10 pounds at my 2-week checkup! The pediatrician said that usually she has babies come back at 4 or 6 weeks for a weight check, but I didn't need to come back b/c I'm such a good eater so I only have to go back at 2 months...and I heard a rumor that that might include shots, which I don't think I'll be real keen on but I'll get back with you. Although, shots might mean another sugar water dose which could be worth it.

I've been working on getting my fingers into my mouth to suck on. I'll pretty much suck on anything that gets close to my mouth. One day Mama was changing my diaper and laid me too close to the little cloth tote that has all my diaper accessories in it, and when she looked back at me I was licking the cloth side of the tote. Every now and then I'll actually get a finger into my mouth, but it's rare.

Don't I have beautiful eyes? When I'm awake Daddy just LOVES to play with me. I don't play back yet very well, but I sure do love being played with.

Being up so long made me tired.

I was awake for a long time one day after Mama bathed me. Speaking of baths, I don't really mind them all that much except when Mama takes too long. I'm fine for the bath part, but then she lathers me with lotion which is about all I can take, and THEN she wants to change my diaper. At that point I've had enough so usually I cry during the diaper change, and I'm not quite old enough to understand what not to do during a diaper change so usually we end up with another outfit or towel and one or maybe 2 more diapers used before the whole ordeal is actually over. They're nobody's favorite time in our house.

Mimi made this wreath for my door in the hospital. There are 2 pacifiers on it which Mama and Daddy have attempted to stick in my mouth, but I will have none of it. I make sure that the look on my face shows my displeasure at the horrid things. They haven't given up yet, though. We'll see who holds out longer. They say they wouldn't care about it except that I use Mama as a pacifier a little more than I should...I'll try to cut back.

Another night with Daddy

This shot really shows off my lovely hair. When Mama was in labor and the nurse told her that I was crowning, she wanted to ask the nurse if I had hair but decided it just wasn't good timing. Mama thinks I'm gonna have hair that sticks straight up on top based on what it does after I have a bath.

These people will NOT let me rest in peace, so every now and then I give them a little smile for the camera so they'll leave me alone. I sleep so cozy in my bassinet :).

I used to sleep like this a lot but have given it up as I've gotten older.