Waits Family Annals

I’m really not going to waste much more space on this post other than to say, the kid is a whopping six months old! To celebrate, we went to the mall. He seemed to cooperate well with the photographer. It was fun to bring some stuff in from the house and see him respond and interact with everything around him. We noticed he is somewhat narcissistic because if he sees a picture of himself he fixates on it. He will stare, smile, and pant. Strange, but true.

We snapped a few pics. Nabbed the ones we could and get to enjoy the rest online. We hope you like staring at him as much as us. Point of pride: We had to sign a release so they can use his pictures in the store. *Can’t stop my head from inflating!* The kid keeps me humble, though. He is sitting in my lap while I type this. Taking a dump.

Enjoy the results:

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Breakthrough day for Connor.  Everything is so new to us and exciting as we watch our baby boy slowly learn to do more things.  We have loved the grins, laughs, giggles, singing, talking, splashing, and sitting up! He loves watching the dogs play together and growl, he can’t keep his eyes off them. I have turned my head for a few minutes and come to find him grunting with his head in the seat.  I freak out, but I think he is pretty clueless, so he must be okay.  He gives the dogs more interest then they do with him.  They walk all over him when he is in his floor gym, but I just remind myself their day will come when Connor wants to pet/pull on their ears and tails.  HaHa the thought of him doing that to Wesley makes me giggle!  Oh how we love to document our baby’s every move. Enjoy!

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We got Connor all ready for Church today. And, no, before you get all bent out of shape that we are going to post every outfit change or every bowl movement, we do not have plans to post every little thing that happens to him. Otherwise, I would be posting pictures of him crying right now. Not that he cries a lot. He just so happens to be crying right now.

Anyway, we put him in a striped button down shirt and no pants. Like Father like son. I also don’t like wearing pants. At Church, some people commented that “only Liz” would dress a newborn in a button down shirt. What?! I mean just cause we don’t dress our son in Poo(h), doesn’t mean it’s not cute. Right? More on my poohlosophy (Philosophy on Pooh) in some later post. It’s juicy. A juicy Pooh, perhaps… Anyway, check the pictures after the jump.

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I just love some of these pictures of my mom with Connor, so I wanted them on the blog.  I love to post pictures, Im not so good with the writing thing.  My mom’s visit was so nice, and it was sad to see her go.  We look forward to the other set of Grandparents to arrive next week and for Connor to be Blessed at church by his Dad.  The start of this year has for sure been all about family, and it will be sad when things start slowing down a bit.

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It is the second day just me, the dogs, and baby.  It has been nice having quite time with Connor and figure him out.  Last night, I think Todd would agree, was the best night so far.  He had no fussy time, he only woke up because he was hungry, and then very easily fell asleep.  I think that partly has to do with the fact that yesterday he was awake for a good seven hours with no nap.  Today he has been very sleepy, so we will see what tonight brings.

We are getting very anxious for the arrival of my brothers baby Bella.  I have three people close to me who are having babies this month, I can’t wait to hear their stories and see their baby pics.  With my brother and his family moving here the end of January, it means that Granny gets to see us again very soon.  I am very excited for my brother, Aubrey, and baby Bella to move out here.  It will be nice to have more family, and I think my brother is very excited to be close to some of his family.

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December 10th he was born!  The labor was pretty smooth, and a lot better than I thought it would be.  Struggling to find a good nap or night sleep is the worse part of the whole thing.  We are almost four weeks into it, and with all the baby books Todd is reading, along with what everybody else says, we are almost at the hump where he wont be needing to eat for 40 min. every 2- 2 1/2 hours.  He really is a sweet boy (of course I’m going to say that) he was born with Michael Buble singing in the background.   My mom leaves tomorrow and we are so sad about this.  She has been able to be with us for almost three weeks.  I also have some great friends and a great sister in law who makes sure I stay sane with phone calls and invites over to their homes. This is the first blog post I have made using this new thing, so hopefully you will get more from us as time goes on.  Gotta go, somebody is hungry… again.

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We finished renovating the Baby’s Room last week. We resurfaced all the walls, redid the electrical (knob and tube wires are not the safest), installed new lights, laid a floor and painted everything. It only took us six months. My excuse is that it is hard to work on stuff when everyone has other jobs. Again, we owe a huge amount of thanks to our awesome neighbor who continues to teach me how to actually do the stuff we do. He also lets us borrow his tools. And additional thanks goes out to Doug who has let us use his nail gun for almost a year now. It has been great for installing base boards and the pigeon problem. Follow the jump for before and after shots!

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Okay, so right after I asked everybody what gender they thought the baby was, I updated WordPress. It caused me to lock myself out of the admin section for about a month and a half while I did troubleshooting on the side. In the meantime, here’s the answer if you haven’t heard it already: We’re having a boy!

He made the presence of his manhood very clear during our visit. We pointed it out and stammered, “Is that his–” The answer was, “Yes, that is his [for the sake of not attracting bizarre webtraffic, I'm not going to name the member here].” It was a great experience. Since then, he has steadily grown and we can now see Liz’s belly move when he moves and kicks. Very exciting. I will endeavor to keep everyone posted.

All right, ladies and gentlemen! The time has come for Liz and I to find out the gender of our child! I know I should have posted this earlier (I should have posted a lot of things, but I haven’t), but here it is: a poll. What do you think we will have? A little Boy or a little Girl? Let us know in this poll and share any reasons in the comments below.

We find out tomorrow morning, and will post the results early this week. So hurry up and submit your answer! As an incentive, we will name our child after everyone who guessed right*. We are super excited which is more excited than just normal excited. For those Ultrasound haters out there who say we should be surprised, we say tomorrow we will be just as surprised. So instead of trying to convince us to wait (because you won’t) enjoy the excitement of the moment.

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*That is not true. In fact, it is a bald-faced lie, but vote and comment anyway because it is fun.

Here it is, ladies and gentlemen! Liz is starting to show a bit. We took this picture on Saturday and it is thrilling us to be able to see physical progress in this pregnancy. While nausea still rules the day, the actual act of vomiting has started to subside. I’m sure that is something everyone is thrilled to know . Little Bit and Wesley seem to realize that Liz is pregnant. Whenever they have a chance, they step on her stomach and jump on her. Watching this baby grow and Liz go through all the ups and downs is amazing, but I feel somewhat at a loss when there is so much I cannot do to ease the experience. I figure as long as I keep her giant cup of ice water full and keep the dogs from pouncing on the baby, we are on the right track.