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One Month Old!

Papa with Jack and Nonie with Emerson. Same age, what a size difference!


Little Jack and Dad covered in ink after collecting hand and foot stamps!

Greetings all! What a busy couple of weeks we've had.  Jack had a lot of visitors for Easter weekend.  Nonie and Papa Sudar came up from Dallas.  Great Aunt and Uncle Nettie and Marty came up from Clovis, with Jack's cousin Andrew.  Great Antie Marian came from Walsenburg! Cousins Shellie and Matthew came down from Estes Park, and we all had Easter Lunch at Great Uncle John's house in Westminster.  Jack has already met so much of his family! 

Folks got to meet both Jack and Emerson on Friday night when Robert and Natalie came over for a visit during their busy Easter weekend festivities.  What a cute photo of the twice-over grandparents!

Jack still has his thrush - takes a long time for that stuff to go away -  both in his mouth and on his bum.  He also has the sniffles and what appears to be a cold. Goodness only knows where he got it - we've been homebound since his last doctor's visit.  The nurse told us some things to do at home and what to watch for if it becomes an ear infection, or something else.  I guess Jack has inherited our affinity to catching everything that is going around!

We don't go back for a checkup for another month, but by our primitive bathroom scale, Jack is already about 8 pounds.  That is awesome news! 

This was our first weekend without visitors and we had a great time as a family.  We got to stay in while it snowed and snowed and rained and snowed Friday and Saturday.  Jack and I are getting into a schedule on weekdays so life is getting a lot less chaotic.  But we feel really spoiled on the weekends when Dad is around to help with dirty diapers and cuddle time! 

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  1. HappyGrama4/20/09, 3:59 PM

    Awww, what a little doll! You'll love looking at those tiny foot-and-handprints years from now.

    Mary Lomax

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  2. Dena Christensen4/21/09, 9:19 AM

    Yes, it was worth the mess for sure. That is one of our favorite photos to date.

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