Friday, September 23, 2011

Owen's first year..

Since I have failed so MISERABLY at keeping up with this blog over the past year I am doing a bit of catch -up.. for us and for the grandmothers.  Each photo here is a picture of Owen closest to the 13th of each month.. beginning with his birthday, August 13th, 2010.  Enjoy!

Newborn: 

                                                                                 One Month old:

                                                                          Two Months old:

                                                                  Three Months old:

                                                              Just before Four Months old:

                                                               Just after Four Months old:

                                                          Five months old: (started crawling)

Six months old: (Yes, with duct tape keeping his socks on- compliments of John)

                                           Seven months old: (dirt in hair compliments of Emm J)

                                                         Eight months old: (started walking)

                                                                   Nine Months old:

                                                                    Ten months old:

                                                                     Eleven months old:

                                                                   Twelve months old:

Saturday, September 17, 2011

Owen's 1st birthday... Photo Party

Sweet baby Owen turned one years old on August 13th, 2011. He is such a happy and fun little guy with the cutest jack-o-lantern smile and bright blue eyes. He walks and climbs and loves to play outside, in the water and with rocks. He especially loves to eat rocks.. and eat pretty much anything he can get his mouth on! We love him to pieces and decided to celebrate his first birthday Dr. Suess style. Wonderful family graced us with their presence and we had a great time!



The birthday banner I made out of the Dr. Suess book: One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish
Our birthday wreath:
The cupcake tower and smash cake I made that morning.

OG seemed content while we sang Happy Birthday and helped him blow out his candles but he became quickly uneasy as we all stood around waiting for him to go at his cake.
Quickly enough his unease tuned into downright NOT FUN.

but he got over it.


We love our little man! This post is a month old and it's amazing how much he has grown and changed in just a short 5 weeks. He has more teeth and is getting pretty proficient at climbing (darn the luck).. but he is one of the most observant babies I have ever seen and loves to sit in my lap and read books again and again. He also loves to pinch and do whatever Emma is up to- especially if she doesn't want him to do what she is going or play with what she is playing with.

Here are some other shots we got right before our camera drowned in the kiddie pool. I hope we'll be able to get a new one soon so we can keep taking pictures of our babies! Any suggestions for a good digital camera?

At the Grand Canyon during the Shupe reunion at the end of July.. right at the start of John's pneumonia! He was so sick and still let me drag him around with my family. He loves me a lot.
Naked baby!!
We survived our first summer in Southern Arizona! Horray!!!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Monday, January 10, 2011

Owen's first month

*Sorry that I am a horrible blogger. Of course you must understand that I have been pretty busy the last few months. (with babies, toddlers and my church calling I have tried and failed several times to post something.. I'm just going to back-track now).

Here is some shots of Owen's first few weeks of life.

This is while we were still in the hospital, August 14th 2010 in Albuquerque.

Nanny came to the hospital, along with Ron, Marie and Addison

We made it home just one day after he was born. Here he is with Nanny and Grumps.

He has the webbed toes on his right feet just like my mom, Grandpa Frandsen and Ron.

He sleeps next to our bed in a co-sleeper bassinet (or just in bed with us). Here he is all swaddled. He was swaddled tightly for most of his first three months of life. He loved it.

He was pretty yellow! Every after noon for the first two weeks I nursed him and let him take a nap by our living room window to get a nice sun-bath to help flush the jaundice out. He was a great nurser the first few weeks which also helped him get lots of nice fat (he was born pretty skinny when first born) and to get rid of the jaundice (even though I had HORRIBLE after-pains while nursing him).

I did a little photo shoot of him when he was three days old to have a picture for his birth announcement. He was very alert for the pictures, but he was actually a pretty sleepy newborn with very rare alert times. He just wanted to sleep and eat for the first two-three months!

Here is his first bath at home. He was only nine days old when his umbilical cord fell off because he kept soaking his belly (and clothes and blankets) with urine! He really hated this at first, but loved his second bath. Now he rarely bathes, but sometimes I bring him in the shower with me for a good soaping up.

He loves to be carried, in our arms or one of our baby slings.

Emma also quickly fell in love with Owen. She loves to hold him and kiss him and pat his cheeks. She also loved to "stress test him." She would pat his cheeks or tummy a little harder, then a little harder just to see what it would take to get him to cry out. This is Emma at 2 years, 3 months and Owen at 9 days old.

Owen is two and a half weeks here. I love that we captured his little smile. Even though Emma would torture him a lot his first few weeks of life he sure loves her now! No one can make him smile and laugh like she can. He is quite fascinated with her.

Of course it's not always fun and games!!

I was afraid that Emma would be pretty jealous of her new brother. She definitely was at some moments (especially when she would first wake up) but she kept her self pretty busy, playing and making messes. She loves her water colors.

Here is one of her messes.. she loves some lotion..

On September 4th, when Owen was three weeks old we drove up to Jemez Springs and did this beautiful hike. It was a couple hours long and he slept for all of it.


Here he is at exactly one month old! We sure love our little OG! Thanks to everyone who helped us get through this first month!!