happenings of week 6

this week has been fun. it's been kind of like seeing him come to life a little as his vision has sharpened. it's been really cool to see him start to focus on things and to watch him turn his head when he hears me talk or if he notices something in the room that catches his attention. up to this point he's really not been able to focus very well enough to really pay attention to much. from last thursday to today there's been big changes like this. the past couple of days he's been really noticing where he is. it's like he just studies the space and the surroundings trying to figure out, 'where am i?'.

these are a couple of photos of bath time this past week. Serif is loving his baths! Helmuts not too fond of baths can you tell? =)

we went to the christmas service sunday night at church. it was nice to get out and attempt going to a service. unfortunately i missed the entire thing with the exception of the opening and closing words. the service hit at his feeding time and the bottle we took to give him was still cold. ya know when you pour yourself a glass of milk and it get warm really quick? well, this doesn't do that and there was no hot water in the church anywhere. because of his clearing vision he stayed distracted when i took him to the nursery to nurse and finally we found a coffee pot downstairs that made us hot water. by that time he had a messy diaper that needed changed and then the closing remarks from the pastor. oh well - we tried. atleast jeff got to enjoy it. look at how big he's getting! his cheeks are getting fuller, his second chin is getting bigger (ha!) and he's even starting to get those little creases at his wrists. he's obviously not skipping meals! he's already outgrowing his 0-3 month stuff! the pants he can still wear, but the tops are just getting pretty tight . . . same with the sleepers. the top in these photos are 3-6 months! yikes! but look how cute! =) some friends of ours got this for him from h&m in chicago. why doesn't nashville have one of these? thanks Chad & Jen!

Jeff and I even got to go to my works christmas party friday night. my sister and brother-in-law (Gerrie & Bubba) was gracious enough to come out to our house and watch him for us. it was really nice to see everyone from work again and have grown-up conversations! although i do enjoy talking with Serif and try to avoid a lot of 'baby' talk - although the voice pitch is tough to keep at a grown up level sometimes. =)

i also got to get out and do some christmas shopping on saturday. i wasn't rushing at all, but i was still back in time to feed him and Jeff didn't have to give him his bottle. i think i'm getting this timing down a little. Pops did end up giving him the bottle though since it was already thawed. i'll have to add that photo to the post - i think it's Jeff's iphone right now. so check back for that one.