We accidentally overlooked an opportunity to eat cake (gasp!) on May 29th. That date marks Cole's one hundred and sixteenth day of freedom from the NICU. He has now officially been on the outside longer than he was in the clink. His baby mitzvah if you will. So hooray for tipping the scales in the name of normal. We'll add this date to the other cakeaversaries:
October 13th - Birthday
January 25th - Due date
February 4 - Hatch day (graduation from the NICU)
May 29th - Baby balance day
Bring on the cupcakes!
Friday, June 12, 2009
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Experimanicure
I did a test. Just out of curiosity, I cut Cole's fingernails one day, and mine at the same time. Do they grow at the same rate? A couple weeks later, it turns out that they do! We both needed a trim at the same time.
So if you're ever wondering if baby nails grow any faster or slower ... they're just the same! I suppose that shouldn't come as any real surprise, but I thought it was fun.
Alright!
So if you're ever wondering if baby nails grow any faster or slower ... they're just the same! I suppose that shouldn't come as any real surprise, but I thought it was fun.
Alright!
Sunday, June 7, 2009
We do this for you.
We're going to try to make more posts more frequently, I swear! In an effort to have something silly to post, we took this:
But then some awesome things actually did happen, which we documented photographically for proof. First, we went out on a beautiful Sunday afternoon walk with the dog at Cabot Woods in Newton. We remembered that our awesome NICU nurse Grace lived near there, so we gave her a call and joined us with her lovely husband and ADORABLE DOG. The walk in the woods was wonderful. And I lied, I didn't have my camera that day so there are no photos. Sorry!
However, we went back to the NICU the next day to say hello to our friend Stacy, and I DID bring the camera that day.
Hello old friend!
Yay! That was such a great visit.
Now here's some random photos because who doesn't love photos? Nobody, that's who.
Snoozy head.
And finally, I am selling the mini. It stunks (typo! But I'm going to leave it because ... "stunks'? That's hilarious! To me.), but it will allow us to buy a better house in a better neighborhood, and Cole deserves that much. He also deserves to be picked up from school in a super rad car, but we'll cross that bridge when he goes to school. Anyway, since the mini is going away, I wanted to do a little photoshoot with it and Cole. Ta daah!
And then we had to stop because he was getting sick of the whole concept.
And that's it for now! Time to go celebrate our anniversary. Because it's our first anniversary. Hooray!
But then some awesome things actually did happen, which we documented photographically for proof. First, we went out on a beautiful Sunday afternoon walk with the dog at Cabot Woods in Newton. We remembered that our awesome NICU nurse Grace lived near there, so we gave her a call and joined us with her lovely husband and ADORABLE DOG. The walk in the woods was wonderful. And I lied, I didn't have my camera that day so there are no photos. Sorry!
However, we went back to the NICU the next day to say hello to our friend Stacy, and I DID bring the camera that day.
Hello old friend!
Yay! That was such a great visit.
Now here's some random photos because who doesn't love photos? Nobody, that's who.
Snoozy head.
And finally, I am selling the mini. It stunks (typo! But I'm going to leave it because ... "stunks'? That's hilarious! To me.), but it will allow us to buy a better house in a better neighborhood, and Cole deserves that much. He also deserves to be picked up from school in a super rad car, but we'll cross that bridge when he goes to school. Anyway, since the mini is going away, I wanted to do a little photoshoot with it and Cole. Ta daah!
And then we had to stop because he was getting sick of the whole concept.
And that's it for now! Time to go celebrate our anniversary. Because it's our first anniversary. Hooray!
Friday, May 29, 2009
Nom nom nom nom nom
The other day Cole ate snacks for the first time! Very exciting!! He had gotten the green light from our pediatrician, so we bought some peas, bananas, and apples. We figured we'd start with bananas because the truth is, bananas are delicious. Unless you're Andy Smith, but he's an anomaly.
The first face he made when confronted with the feeling of food in his mouth was something like this:
But then he seemed totally intrigued and loved it:
He also totally got the hang of it and started feeding himself. He was like, "hey man, I got this. Take five while I scarf this down."
It was pretty sweet. Here are some more pictures of the event.
Fun! I also took some video. Here's some video!
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
2 Things
I've just updated kateplusadam.com. It now an aggregation of a couple things:
The last 2 blog posts
The latest 19 photo uploads to Flickr
The last 2 videos we uploaded to youtube
My twitter tweets (tweet!)
Links to all the old stuff
So yeah. Might be a good place to look for updates because we don't always update everything at the same time.
Also, our hard drive came back from the hard drive monkeys, and now we've got a whole mess of photos to blog about. All of that to come, because I have to get to WORK! Preview:
The last 2 blog posts
The latest 19 photo uploads to Flickr
The last 2 videos we uploaded to youtube
My twitter tweets (tweet!)
Links to all the old stuff
So yeah. Might be a good place to look for updates because we don't always update everything at the same time.
Also, our hard drive came back from the hard drive monkeys, and now we've got a whole mess of photos to blog about. All of that to come, because I have to get to WORK! Preview:
Monday, May 11, 2009
Quick shout out
I just wanted to take a moment to give a series of hugs to all the people at the Beth Israel NICU. We went to the NICU reunion tent at the March of Dimes on Saturday and it was so wonderful to see everyone! Among the amazing staff at the table, Grace and Stacy were there, giving Cole kisses and happily squeezing him. We had a nice chat with Dr. Gupta too. It felt so great to be among that company again, celebrating Cole and his new fat rolls.
No photos for now, because our hard drive with the photos on it is under the knife, but as soon as it gets back there will be a big ass post with 47 thousand photos. Maybe more.
Mom and Dad are leaving today *sad!* It was an incredible visit, and deserves its own detailed post. I'll write that later, I have to go get some work done.
No photos for now, because our hard drive with the photos on it is under the knife, but as soon as it gets back there will be a big ass post with 47 thousand photos. Maybe more.
Mom and Dad are leaving today *sad!* It was an incredible visit, and deserves its own detailed post. I'll write that later, I have to go get some work done.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Miles of Smiles
So, it's been a while. What's up?
We've been up to all sorts of shenanigans: visiting parents (grandparents!), a wedding, and lots of playing with friends, near and far. We've seen international racing boats, museums, bars, ice cream shops, rain, sun, and fresh spring breezes. Also a bunch of other stuff that I can't think of right now.
Here's Cole next to his very first turbo:
We had the honor of joining Livia and Jamie for their son's Baptism, and we wanted Cole to look especially respectable. Kate's mom Jane had managed to find a super awesomely appropriate outfit for him. Here he is all dressed up for the first time.
He was ready way before we were, so he sat around on the couch while Kate and I got our stuff together. Drumming his fingers, he waited patiently.
Cole has found out that his fingers can be used to grab stuff. Like my face.
Cole met a new green friend in the past couple weeks.
When they talk to each other, the words they use are mostly "RAWR!" and "AARRRR!".
One thing that we've been trying to do for quite some time now is capture one of Cole's big happy smiles on "film." Here are some of our best examples:
Yay smiles and giggles!
More pictures and updates to come. Just have to recover my busted hard drive. Yay.
We've been up to all sorts of shenanigans: visiting parents (grandparents!), a wedding, and lots of playing with friends, near and far. We've seen international racing boats, museums, bars, ice cream shops, rain, sun, and fresh spring breezes. Also a bunch of other stuff that I can't think of right now.
Here's Cole next to his very first turbo:
We had the honor of joining Livia and Jamie for their son's Baptism, and we wanted Cole to look especially respectable. Kate's mom Jane had managed to find a super awesomely appropriate outfit for him. Here he is all dressed up for the first time.
He was ready way before we were, so he sat around on the couch while Kate and I got our stuff together. Drumming his fingers, he waited patiently.
Cole has found out that his fingers can be used to grab stuff. Like my face.
Cole met a new green friend in the past couple weeks.
When they talk to each other, the words they use are mostly "RAWR!" and "AARRRR!".
One thing that we've been trying to do for quite some time now is capture one of Cole's big happy smiles on "film." Here are some of our best examples:
Yay smiles and giggles!
More pictures and updates to come. Just have to recover my busted hard drive. Yay.
Monday, April 13, 2009
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.
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.
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