We had a great Easter weekend. Kyle was post-call Thursday and had Friday off (which was a last minute surprise) so we had a much-needed 4-day weekend! He's been working soooooo hard this month w/ ridiculous hours and studying, so it was great to have a break.
Church was great too. Wonderful message and some of our favorite songs, which is always fun. And Owen did GREAT! We opted to go to the early service because of lunch plans w/ our Bible Study friends! This has become (like our Christmas meal) somewhat of a tradition--its a pot luck and everyone tends to bring "their usual" so its easy and so nice to celebrate/fellowship with friends.
Owen milestones:
1) He's able/willing to take a bottle! Kyle has now successfully fed him several times and the nursery helper (a stranger to him) fed him at church--wow!
2) Owen has successfully transitioned to an earlier bedtime. We start at 7:30 and he's usually down by 8:15 or so after his bath, feeding, etc. And he's still sleeping through the night. He's waking up a little bit earlier too (not too much though) so we are able to go to early church and avoid him getting fussy b/c he needs a nap (the problem the last few weeks). Another benefit is that we're able to hang out with friends after he's asleep. We spent Saturday night staying up late with Christal and Phil watching the TX Aggies almost prevail over UCLA. (Part of Kyle's TX interview preparation!)
3) Owen took a nap in a pack-n-play at our friends' house after Easter lunch yesterday--went down just fine and actually slept for over an hour and a half! (I told our host that we may be back every day if he naps that well at her house.) Yea for being able to nap at other places! (One funny note about his naps these days: he sleeps in a "sleep sack" but likes to have a thin cotton waffle blanket to play with...he rubs it all over his face as he's falling to sleep and leaves it there covering his head and nothing else--like Bee's "softy".)
All three of these things mean more and more normalcy/freedom and its wonderful!
Here are a few photos after church/lunch/nap:
Next year there will be Easter eggs in Kyle's beautiful green grass for the little guy to pick up!
For any of you that remember "study face"...this is his new one. He sucks his bottom lip in and looks very contemplative. What a serious baby!
Stay tuned for a video we're hoping to catch of Owen's belly laughs. Very similar to my quest to get him to smile (and catch it on camera) a few months ago, his real laugh has made appearances, but is not regular...so we'll keep you posted.
And a prayer request: we're travelling to Austin next week to see family/friends and (drum roll) for Kyle's 2-day interview w/ a practice there. We are sooo excited and are trying not to get our hopes up. We know God has a perfect plan for us...
1 comment:
Courtney directed me to your blog. Owen is so cute! I had gotten some emails through the Meridian grapevine after he was born and at Christmas. It looks like he is growing fast and that all is well. By the way, ya'll are a really cute little family:)
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