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These past few weeks have gone by so quickly, we been so busy! I have to go back and look at pictures to see what has been going on. Rob's been working a lot and will be working alot the next few weeks, so I've spent alot of time at my mommas! We bought Austin his first little backpack, it's too cute :) gotta love spiderman!! Austin absolutely loves going outside now, whether it's just sitting outside or taking walks. He's also rolling on his side from his back, making it about 3/4 of the way over, but then he just sits there and coos, then turns back over to his back :) We now can put Austin in the front of the shopping cart if we help hold him. He loves looking around as we run errands, it's helped us to be able to go out and get things done! We got to talk to Liam and Beth in Australia on video chat for the first time - that was really really neat!!! My daddy turned 63 years young, yes i know he doesn't look or act that old. We celebrated at my parents house! Austin has been having trouble taking his bottle the past week or so -- ever since Easter he had gotten used to me feeding him bc I slacked on giving him bottles during the day -- so now he protests them and goes on hunger strike. Mom had a good day with him today tho finally, he took all of them with little fuss! I've met Joy and Kerrie and Jessie for supper these past two weeks - it's so great catching up with them! Trying to get everything for school figured out, I've registered for the summer, boo. Time for bed, more in a few weeks - we've got a busy next few weeks.

Happy Easter!

It’s been a busy past few weeks. We weighed Austin at 3 months at my parents house and he weighed 16 pounds and is 25 inches long. Our baby is growing like crazy! I can’t believe he’s now 3 ½ months old. I think he’s changed the most in the past two weeks – he is now smiling at you when you do something funny and real laughing J He’s grabbing toys and holding onto them. He grabs the toy frog on the bouncer and pulls it to make noise. He looks at books as I’m reading them. He still rolls to both of his sides, but he doesn’t roll over yet! He sleeps at least 8 hours every night, if not 9-11!! Def. mine and Rob’s kid. He’s starting to like the jumper thingy and exersauser. He’s now reacting to Tally, which is fun… and gross! He started open mouth smiling when tally was licking him and tally licked his mouth- yuck! Austin started laughing and thought it was the funniest thing in the world.

Last weekend Austin and I went to paint pottery with Laura D and Joy. We made Grandma a mothers day present. We had the best time!! This weekend was Easter weekend – we went to Dahlonega and had a picnic at the park. Daddy bought Austin a Spiderman fishing pole, but it was way too cold to go fishing. Maybe next time! Then on Sunday we went to church and then the whole family went back to our house and had a big lunch. We played games and painted Easter eggs. It was so much fun hanging out with everyone J We joined Smoke Rise Baptist Church yesterday, we are really excited about this. The people in our Sunday school class are very nice and we love the pastor and the worship. We also LOVE the nursery and feel very comfortable leaving Austin there. And the nursery people love Austin. There are a few people In our SS class that either just had babies or are ab to have babies.

Austin started watching tv a few days ago!! We put Bob the bulder on while he was laying in our bed in the morning, and he just stared at it for 15 minutes. Then, we were watching a movie of Liam on the computer and he just sat and watched it! And the best news we’ve heard yet this week… as many of you may know, my parents are going to Australia for the month of July, which we are very excited ab, but we are trying to find people to help watch Austin, since I’m working and will be in school and we aren’t quite sure of Rob’s work schedule. Well, my Aunt Ellen said that she would come help out for the first two weeks of July. We are so relieved that she’s coming to help and are excited that she is going to get the chance to get to know Austin!! Thanks Ellen!!!!!

Hope everyone had a great Easter. Check out our new photos and videos of Austin!!!

Our smart baby :)

Look how good Austin is holding his head up! Click on the picture for more ;)

Austin is 11 weeks old today, goodness!! This past work week he slept 8 hours each night, yay :) We had a great weekend this past weekend --- we had friends over on Saturday night and Rob made taquitos; Sunday we went to church and sunday school and then went to stone mountain for a picnic with my parents. It was such a pretty day. They LOVE Austin in the nursery - they fight over who gets to hold him, it's really cute! The past few days Austin has figured out how to pick toys up and put them in his mouth and he's LOVING his playmat and bouncer -- he hits and kicks at the toys and smiles, it's so much fun to watch him!!! I think that's all for this week :)

First day of work, etc...

Austin visiting Mommy, Auntie Laura and Hope on mommy's first day back at work!Austin LOVES bathtime :)
The new shades we bought Austin, so hopefully he can see outside now!
Austin visits Uncle Jeremy and his dogs :)

Lots to update. Firstly, check out the pictures, we've taken quite a few cute pictures, so go check them out :) I had my first day of work last Monday, and i did pretty good! well, mom did bring Austin up for lunch to see me, so that helped alot. It's worked out really good so far with mom and Rob watching Austin, the time is split in half almost, it's work well with mom's schedule and rob's work schedule. And they've brought him up for lunch every other day or so :) Everyone at work thinks he looks just like Rob ;) oh, and the day before i had to go back to work it snowed 5 inches!! I can't belive it - so Austin has already seen his first snow. This past weekend Rob and I did our spring cleaning - we got the backyard cleaned up and the pool uncovered and cleaned and the whole inside cleaned inside and out, even gone thru clothes and closests, etc. And then we went took Tally and Austin to stone mountain and got a seasons pass. I showed rob the duck pond and carrollin that grandmomma used to always take us to. We had such a great time just getting out as a family.

Going to Stone Mountain

Austin had his 2 month appointment last week and he is one healthy boy :) He's in the 90% for both height and weight. He's now 14.5 lbs and 23 1/2 inches long and his head is 41 1/2 cm. He had his first roudn of shots, poor guy, he was quite the trooper, but when we got home he ran a fever for the weekend and was quite fussy and just watned to be held. We let him sleep with us for a few days :) he doesn't have to go back again until he's 4 months old.

This week we've gotten into a better routine.. i come home from work and ususally feed Austin, then we all (rob too if he's not working!) go outside and play in the backyard (austin swings on his little swing!) and then we take a walk together, then by that time it's around 630 pm and Austin and I spend time together and play in his room with his toys. Then i let him have crib time while i get his bath ready and get his clothes and bottles ready for the next day (rob is making supper at this time :)), then around 7 Austin gets his bath and then we read a book, eat and he goes to sleep. This seemed to work great this past week!! And i loved getting outside when it's nice and i get to spend some quality time with all my boys :)

Austin is such a ham, he's now starting to look at books, and laugh at you and coo and make crazy cute noises! He's such a happy baby. he could look at his mobile in his crib all day long, so cute :) and he just found his hands this past week, and loves putting them in his mouth and loves pushing you away from him, lol! ooh, and he's slept 8 hours in a row the past 2 nights, yay!!!

Austin's first snow!!

just wanted to post a few pics of Austin's first snow today and him visiting daddy at work at the Fox theater yesterday. Angela also sent pics of Austin and Charlee playing when we were in texas. click on the pics to see more. Gotta get to bed since I gotta work tomorrow:(

Back to work

Check out his mohawk!!

Well, Austin will be 8 weeks old in a few days, and I have to go back to work on Monday. I've been busy trying to get everything on my to do list completed before I go back, but I've also spent alot of time with Austin, bc I know that I won't get nearly as much time with him once I'm back at work. Having mixed feelings, I've decided I could totally be a stay at home mom, but that obviously won't be happening anytime soon!! Well, not much to update about Austin... hmm, he's now sleeping between 5-7 hours at night, usually around 6, which we are very blessed for him to be doing this so young. He's also starting to smile alot and loves playing in his crib. We've taken a few videos of Austin playing in his crib and swinging in his swing outside, so check them out here: http://www.youtube.com/user/staffordfamilytv

Back from Texas...

Well, we've had a busy past few weeks. Last week we took our trip to texas. We flew out on Friday and Austin did great, he slept the whole plane ride. We had a great time seeing Rob's family and seeing them meet Austin --- of course they all think he looks just like Rob! Austin got to meet his black grandma (rob's mom), big daddy (rob's dad) and his great-grandma on rob's side!! He also got to meet Charlee and Taylor, his cousins. Charlee just turned 6 months old --- she was so cute wacthing Austin, but austin is still too little to even notice her! Taylor helped us out alot with Austin :) we are exhausted from our trip, it was so busy just trying to fit in seeing everyone everyday, hopping from house to house -- Austin was a trooper, but it's taken a few days to get him back on schedule. Aunt Janis took us shopping and got Austin the cutest clothes, so he doesn't have to be a naked boy this summer :) Ang and rob's dad threw a meet the baby shower for us with all of Rob's friends, we had a great time! And Austin was such a good boy, he didn't fuss the whole time during the shower. On the way back to the airport we stoped by the dallas cowboys stadium so we could get austin and daddy's picture taken before it was torn down!!


Austin had his one month check-up (well, he was 5 weeks old) a few days ago and here are his stats:

Birth: 5 weeks:
8 lbs 7 1/2 oz 12 1/2 lbs. (95th percentile)
20 1/2 inches 23 inches (90th percentile)
head-36 cm head - 39 cm (i think!) (75th percentile)

So, he is growing like a weed! I also had my postop appointment a few days ago and dr. kleiss said i looked really good and was healing nicely. I only have 5 lbs. to go to get back to my original weight, i can't beleive it came off so fast! I still can't work out for a few more weeks, but i can drive and start picking up heavier things. My incision is healing nicely. (this picture is of dr.kleiss, the best doctor ever!!)

On friday we visited work for the first time. It was nice seeing everyone!!! We got to show off Austin and had lunch with my department.

Austin absolutly LOVES bathtime now. He just sits in the water and looks around -- it relaxes him. We've started to get him into a routine of giving him a bath at night, then feeding him and reading him a book until he falls asleep. He's started sleeping 4-5 hours now during the night for the most part, which we are very excited about!! He also smiled for the first time the other day, and he's been doing it ever since, but only for just a second, i can't catch a pic of it yet. and he's rolled on his side a few times now, i couldn't believe it -- he's such a big boy!

We just got the pictures back that Tim (our wedding photographer) took for us. They turned out soooo cute! I can't believe how much he's grown already, these pics were taken when he was 12 days old. We've posted all these pics and the pics from Texas!!