August Photo Journal

In addition to the Baby Blessing and Disneyland, here are some other things that happened in August!

 MomR, Tanya and Desha stayed a few days after the blessing. We went to Crystal Cove, shopped, ate out, etc. Desha helped me a lot with dishes, laundry and taking care of Tanner. I have such an awesome big sister!!

 Desha also took a bajillion photos of Tanner. Here are two of them! (above and below)

 Jeremy and Desha found out that our camera has a smile feature. I guess it can identify if you're smiling. So they are testing it out here.

 Jeremy thought Tanner looked cute in the laundry basket. But Tanner got pretty mad about it.

 We try to go outside a lot so that Tanner can get his Vit D each day. This is our front common area.

 I show Tanner how to play with his toys everyday. Some of them he LOVES to watch and touch, and others he could care less about. We also read to him A LOT. I've been collecting children's books for years, so it's awesome to finally read them to my own child!! Tanner can sit and focus through 1-3 books at a time. His favorites are Goodnight Moon, Brown Bear Brown Bear, Animal touch and feel (he mostly looks at the bold words), It Looked Like Spilt Milk, and he especially loves the illustrations in Drummer Hoff.

 This is Tanner's view of the spare room when he is on the ground.

Tan Man loves the swing and his boppy pillows. He is such an easy-going baby. He is really easy to calm. He will suck on anything. He takes a bottle and the boob really well. He does fine with formula if I have to supplement. He'll sleep on or in anything, and he does great with babysitters!

Actually there is one thing he doesn't like very much- tummy time. He still thinks that he has to search around for a boob when he is on his tummy. Funny guy.

 He started smiling at us at 5 weeks. He smiled tons for Papa Robertson and GramZavoral. Now he smiles up a storm for Jeremy everyday before he leaves for work, and he smiles for me after his feedings. At 7.5 weeks, he started cooing to us. Now he coos and sings and talks TONS to us. It is the sweetest thing!!

 He was born with the left side of his head flat. The Dr said it was pressed up against my belly for a long time. You can tell how that's affected his hair growth and his ears. Above is the flat side. Below is the normal round side- it has less hair because it rubs against things more than the flat side.

 Spit up. It happens.

 See how his leg compares with my foot? My shoe size is 8.

 Tanner LOVES his daddy. And Jeremy is SO good with Tanner. He was a natural dad from Day 1!