Trout Lake

We have many awesome friends - Shaina and Craig are two of them. I met Shaina in Denver, at TMI. Her parents own a lake house just outside Adirondack National Park. We drove up there on Sunday and stayed till Friday. We swam, boated, kayake, fished, cooked, and inner tubed. What a great time with great friends! Emmeline was a bit wary at first since there were 4 dogs between the Fergusons and the Spielers. By Friday, she was just like old times - loving the dogs, especially Figgy, Mrs. Spieler's geriatric dachsund. Jamie had a tougher time. He's still kind of a homebody, and seems to REALLY like his bed best. But he did ok.

The view looking up the lake from the end of the deck. Bee-yoo-tiful.

Em had a little bit of a crush on Craig. Maybe it was because he read to her - every single time she asked.
Emmeline took this one of Jamie. It's kind of artsy, I think.

Camping with Daddy

Baby Shawn, 2.0

I was so excited when Jamie was born. He looked a lot like me. Now that he's lost that newborn look, he's looking more and more like his dad. Which isn't bad, I was just hoping I might get one kid to look like me, a little.

We have fallen in love with the Playseum in Bethesda. Awesome. Emmeline likes the dress up room, the animal room, the grocery store, the music area, and getting her nails painted (for $1!!). She and Shawn were sampling the wigs.

Pediatrician Update

Today was Jamie's 6-8 week check (he's 7 weeks). My little peanut has grown from 7 lbs even to 10 lbs 13 oz! Chunker! Of course, I looked back at Emmy's baby book, and she weighed 11.2 at 7 weeks, so he's still behind...but not by much! He also grew 2 inches in these 7 weeks. I knew he was getting longer, but 2 inches is a lot. Jamie's in this weird middle size where most newborn size clothes are really too small, but the 0-3 month stuff is huge on him. He owns about 6 onesies that really fit. And when you vomit on minimum three outifts a day, this means we have enough clothes for two days at a time.
Emmeline is enjoying all the time we've been spending outside, up until this weekend when it got nasty. She and Shawn went camping over the long weekend, and she had an awesome time kayaking, and swimming in the lake. Alas, I don't have any pictures, but I'm sure I can wrangle some from Jessica.

6 Week Growth Spurt

Growth spurts are a real pain. I managed to block out Emmeline's 6 weeker. Jamie's has been a trial. Moms-to-be: arrange for extra help this week, and be prepared to drink heavily. There is non stop eating, followed by serious fussiness and virtually no sleep. Jamie was an eating machine, sometimes eating every hour. He also gave up on napping for more than 15 minutes at a time. Of course, the trade off was that Tuesday night he was so tired he slept from 8 to 4 am. I think it's over now, he's been napping again, and we've gone back to eating every 2.5 or 3 hours. I can't wait to know how much weight he put on in this feeding frenzy.

5 weeks!

Jamie will definitely be surpassing Em on physical milestones. He rolled over three times this morning! Safety disclaimers:

1 - This is the last time tummy time will take place on the couch, clearly.

2- I did not hop up to grab the camera to take this amazing footage. I had my media assistant (Emmeline) get it for me.

Car Seat Safety

If you have car seat(s) in your car, check out this website: http://www.seatcheck.org/. There are locations in every state that will check the installation of your car seat. We had a small problem with Jamie's about two weeks ago (his seemed to be rolling to the sides a bit much when we'd take a corner particularly fast...or at all.) I made an appointment with our local place, and they checked both Em's and Jamie's. Both were technically installed correctly, but had way too much wiggle room. It is scary to think that although both Shawn and I had checked both seats to make sure they were in right, these officers were able to tighten them so much more. Jamie's was also at the wrong angle. I'm sure they both would have been fine had we been in an accident, but there's only one way to know for sure, and I'm glad we didn't have to find out. They were able to do both seats in less than 30 minutes, so it's not like it was a big hassle.