Belated Blogging

Oh, hello there!

Where the heck have we been? Ummmmm, besides reveling in the awesomeness that is Cole? Yeah, that's about it.

First, just the facts. Fat king Cole is SIX months old! Yeah, seriously. Can you believe it? Happy birthiversary big guy! Speaking of supersized... Cole has been very busy octupling his weight, currently tipping the scales at a whopping fifteen and a half pounds. What a porkchop! Our pediatrician tells us that this is in the 90th percentile of weight for his age, not that we're crazy stat watchers, but come on, he has multiplied by eight, people! That is not too shabby. He is also sleeping through the night (ish) and speaking fluent french. OK, that last one not so much true.

Since Cole emerged from his little NICU cocoon and half way house arrest, he has been meeting and greeting friends and family galore. He recently hosted aunt Gale and uncle Steve, along with aunt Liz and uncle Phil. They zoomed alllll the way up to beantown from the big apple with bagels and lox and potato chips, oh my! It was like culinary hebrew school for our little latke. We noshed and snuggled and did a fashion show of Cole's entire wardrobe. I am telling you, you could just feel the love.


Have bagels will travel


Family portrait


Hangin with Lirpy


Phhhhht with Poopie


The greatest aunties


We are faaaaamily


Men munching


Ladies lunching


Snuggles



Cole also recently celebrated/slept through Passover. Mazel tov!

Speaking of love, Cole also spent some quality time with our family friends Margie and Tony, Steph and Jennifer. They gave him plenty of hugs and quiches. It was a wonderful celebration with lots of smiles and joy. We swapped preemie stories with Steph, mom to beautiful, brilliant preemie success story and role model to Cole, Kendra. Tony even serenaded Cole with song. Of course, Cole collected cuddles from everybody.

Supreme snoozing


I boop your nose!


Hugs



Sidenote: After four months of lying solo in the hospital crib, I had worried that Cole might be a little robot, sort of "meh" about the snugs, even though we held him every chance we got. Well, this kid is a cuddle machine! Never is he happier than when he is perched in an admirers arms like a baby chick in its cozy nest. He is absolutely shameless, and pouts if you even think of putting him down. It's ridiculous, ridiculously adorable that is.

Speaking of snuggles, we had a great visit with our friend and Cole's NICU nurse, Stacy. We have missed her! We had a little love fest at the local ice cream joint.

Happy reunion


Hello friend


Smiles



We are thrilled that the stinky Boston weather is slooooowly springing to life.


The flu season is waning, and we are widening our radius, taking field trips to stores, snack bars, dog parks, oh, speaking of dogs...

Our foster pup is making progress in (skinny, awkward) leaps and bounds. We have named her Betty. For the first few days we could barely get her out of the crate, she was such a nervous nellie. We were thrilled when she started creeping around the house, exploring every inch of the place with her skinny little snoot. She was easily spooked and really flinchy at first, but now she wags her tail and even plays! She also, um, steals stuff. It's a funny greyhound thing, not all of them do it, she's our first foster who has. The theory is that they've never had anything of their own at the kennel, so when they finally have the chance, they, um yeah, steal stuff. Not like diamonds or illegal cable, just little things like toys, towels, blankets laundry etc. It's pretty hilarious.

Snurfle


Zoom zoom


Adam's parents just arrived from South Africa for a visit. They've spent the last few weeks in Portland visiting Adam's brother, his wife Becky, their son Theo, and their new baby Henry who was born in November. Welcome to beantown Bill and Linda! I'm sure we'll be posting pictures of their visit soon.