Day of Daddy

Andrew’s first father’s day has come and gone already!  Being the dedicated student he is, he spent his day studying for his D.E. test that was today.  He did get a few free moments…so here they are!

 

After her bath, burritoed up in the towel Aunt Jenny sent!  This is one our favorite times of the day because she is so excited!

Watching them together melts my heart.  She lights up every time he plays with her…she just loves her daddy so much!  It is the sweetest thing to see how much he adores his baby girl.  I had no doubt he was going to be a great father…but this is one of the best things ever!

Sweet baby!  Helping her daddy study before she went to bed…she seems just a little confused.  She doesn’t quite understand differential equations yet!

Miss Mae gets shots!

Amelia had her two month check up today with Dr. B.  Momma was pretty nervous because 1) her baby was getting shots and 2) it was our first duet at the doctor since birth… Needless to say, Amelia was FANTASTIC!  She is progressing beautifully in the development arena.  The doctor said she has successfully met  the developmental milestones thus far and is doing wonderful.  She weighed in at 11 lbs. 10 ounces – the 70th percentile!  She is 22 inches long – 25th percentile (which if she takes after her mommy, I don’t expect more than this) She was given 3 shots and 1 oral vaccination…a whole lot for my little patot!  Amelia screamed after the 1st shot and continued until momma picked her up and loved on her a little.  Momma did get a smidge teary eyed…but held it together!  Amelia Bedelia has two war bandages now and a new toy for being so well behaved for her appointment.   We are so blessed to have such a beautiful and healthy baby.  My heart goes out to the mommies that don’t have such pleasant visits and/or have to hear sad news about their babies’ lack of progress.  We are very fortunate :).

Here are a few pictures …or more than a few of Miss Mae when she woke up three hours later!

  Her little bandages…Scooby Doo and Garfield! Her stat sheets to compare My new toy…a pack of connectable rings!!!   AND we are out again!

Restoration Master

My husband is the master of many things…as we all know!  His new project is to restore a chair that belonged to Ms. Debbie when she was younger.  There is a story that goes with the chair…Ms. Debbie tells it quite well, so I will leave that job to her.  Andrew was hell-bent on finding this chair so he could fix it up for Amelia.  I don’t have true “before” pictures because I didn’t get to them fast enough…so here are the “in progress” pictures!  I look forward to seeing the finished product!!

And even further into the process…

Amelia Mae gets baptized after 9 o’clock mass…or so we thought!

So after a small headache, Andrew and I finally got the OK from St. Catherine’s to have Amelia baptized.  We made all of the proper arrangements and invited everyone to see her get christened after the 9 o’clock mass.  Andrew had spoken to the priest and ladies at the rectory a few times and each time they assured my paranoid husband that the baptisms take place AFTER mass.  It was a beautiful, hot Sunday morning and Amelia was ready to wear her Grandpa Bosch’s gown…the church was very accomodating…we had two pews in the front of the church reserved for Amelia Mae.  We thought that was super nice of the church, but seeing as though the baptisms take place AFTER mass, we did not make a big deal about half our family being in the very back of the church…they had PLENTY of time to move up AFTER mass.  As we sit down, Aunt Nat points out that every other baby had their gowns on…so after serious contemplation and against Daddy’s wishes, Momma quickly put Amelia’s gown on her…trying to be as discreet as possible…mass had already begun and we didn’t want to draw attention to ourselves.  As we sit down and get settled in for the homily, I see people getting up and walking to the “baptism bowl” (I know I should know what this is called…but I don’t.  Forgive me!).  I think to myself, “Surely they are not baptizing these children now…they told me AFTER mass.” My thoughts were wrong…I blinked and then it was our turn to walk up to the baptism bowl…in front of the ENTIRE congregation and have our Amelia baptized.  It happened so quick it was over before we knew what was going on.  Amelia was beautiful…didn’t make a peep! But momma, daddy, and EVERYONE ELSE who had planned for the baptism to take place AFTER mass was a little confused and disappointed…and not in attendance because we thought…I’m sure you knew what we thought at that point!  ANYHOW…luckily we don’t take things too seriously and found the humor in it…and it turned out to be a lovely day!  Everyone made it back to Grams and PopPops and had a great time visiting.