Nate started smiling (for real) about 10 days ago. It is so fun! Jon is the best at getting him to smile.

Here's his first real smile caught on camera:


Smiles with Dad (you can see his bandaids from his first shots):


In his carseat:


But he doesn't always smile...


We are heading to Virginia on Sunday for a week to visit my family. I'm praying the flights go well!

These pictures, which our friends Neil and Casey took, give a different perspective of Nate's birth from what I saw... :)

Here's Colleen listening at the door to hear Jon yell out that it was a boy:


Here's Jon triumphantly exiting the hospital room for the first time to tell everyone Nate was a boy and what his name, weight, height, etc. were:




Another of me in the hospital room:


It's hard to believe this was already over six weeks ago!

Here we are when Nate turned six weeks:

It's hard to believe that our baby is over 5 weeks old now! Nate's still mostly just sleeping, eating, crying (but not much), and getting bigger. We should start getting some interaction (like real smiles) from him in the coming days!

For our third anniversary, we dropped Nate off with Jon's parents and went to dinner at the Fish Market. Leaving Nate wasn't too difficult--I knew he was in good hands, and I was looking forward to some time with just Jon and me. I wondered if we would be able to talk about anything but Nate, but we did. It was nice!