The Lost Thumb has been Found

For all those who remember Evan and I talking about our 20 week ultrasound or showing you pictures of it...Denver sucked his thumb throughout the ultrasound. At one point he lost his thumb and got mad and started flailing his extremities around until he found his thumb again and the ultrasound tech just happened to get a picture of him in the process of getting his thumb back in his mouth. Here's that picture...which if you look close they typed in "WHERE'S MY THUMB????".

This past week Denver found his thumb again! I think he's only found his left thumb as I can't recall seeing him suck on his right thumb. Now we typically find him in the crib in the morning sucking away on his thumb. His thumb has become a good tide me over and when he's tired his thumb goes straight to his mouth! Enjoy the video that we got of Denver sucking his thumb in his crib Sunday morning before he woke up. (It's a little dark as we didn't turn the lights on in the room until the end because we didn't want to wake him up before we got it on video!)

Three Months Old

Denver was 3 months old last Sunday. We are having more and more fun with him every day! Today we went to Target and he just talked away while we were there and was full of smiles. Denver didn't like to sit still much before, but now he really doesn't like to sit still. He's always wanting to be looking at something new or playing with a toy. He has a musical gym and today we got him another gym that has 6 different spots for toys to hang from (1 which is a mirror that he loves to look into) and he loves both these toys. They can entertain him for up to 30 minutes. One day he was sitting in my lap basically asleep and woke up when I moved him and he saw his musical gym and starting reaching for it and going "eh, eh, eh" until I put him down to play with it. Then the other morning Denver decided to get up at 5a.m. (when Mommy was working a night shift so Daddy had to get up! Ha, ha, ha....sorry Dad, but it's funny to Mom) and he played with his musical gym until he fell asleep! Amazing! Denver is also slowly figuring out his jumperoo, but hasn't figured out how he can jump...we have to bounce it for him.


Denver is still a Minnesota Twins fan! We're getting excited for baseball season. Daddy thought he needed to get Denver a baseball glove today, but Mommy said just wait until he gets bigger! Daddy can't wait to play basketball and baseball with Denver.


Here is what I've accomplished for 3 month pictures. Denver has learned that Mommy takes too many pictures and knows that if he starts crying I'll stop....so it's getting hard to get good ones. I'm still hoping to get a good full body one of him in his little button up and corduroy pants.

ROLLING OVER!!

We are rolling over!! Denver rolled over for the first time today. Believe it or not, both Mom and Dad got to be there to see him roll over for the first time. Dad is very proud as he read in a book that at 5 months your baby MIGHT be able to roll over one way. I missed the first rolling over for the video camera, but got it for the 2nd and several more after that. Here's the video of him.

More Bath Time Fun and Jiber-Jabering!

Denver continues to do well. We think he's still working on a tooth though as he's been fussy at times and nothing seems to soothe him other than rubbing his gums or giving him some orajel and/or tylenol. He sucks on his fists constantly and is always drooling. We wear bibs pretty much all the time now to prevent his shirt from becoming soaked in drool! He seems to talk a little more every day. Last week we had a meeting in Church and one of his little girlfriends (who is 10 days older, lives down the street from us, and her mommy works with me, besides the fact of going to Church together) was there...we had them facing each other and Denver started to giggle at Abby and then Abby started to talk away to Denver. It was so cute and fun to watch. It makes you wonder if they know what they are saying to each other! Denver keeps working on rolling over, but hasn't gotten very far. It's going to take awhile to figure out how to get that arm out of the way, but that's okay because we like that we can put him in one spot and run out of the room and he'll still be there when we get back! Denver was 3 months old on Sunday. I hope to take 3 month pictures tomorrow and will hopefully have them posted by the end of the week.

Here are some videos of Denver. One of them is part of bath time and the other is of him talking. Whenever I turn on the video camera he seems to quit doing whatever he was doing that was so cute. These are some of the better ones I've been able to get. I hope you enjoy them. His little personality comes out more and more everyday. It's so much fun!

Adjustments

Now that I've been back at work for 2 full weeks I figured I better make some time to get some updates on here and let everyone know how it's going. It was very hard to leave the house for my first shift back, but each shift it's a little easier to leave. I think that's because I don't "dwell" on it so much and I know I have to go and that I just need to enjoy every minute I get at home with Denver AND Evan. I think Denver has enjoyed his time with his Daddy and Grandmas, but we can tell he misses his Mommy! Night shifts are easier in the fact that Denver sleeps through the night and I can usually make it home in the morning right before he gets up, so he only notices I'm gone in the evening before bed. The only problem with that is that he wants to nurse and snuggle with his Mommy before he goes to bed which has made the evenings a little difficult for Daddy. Day shifts are a little more difficult for Denver because he wakes up to both Mom and Dad gone, but thank goodness it works for Grandma Verni to stay with him so at least it's a familiar face that picks him up out of his crib in the morning and plays with him all day long. Since I work 12 hour shifts I'm gone from the house for about 13 hours and so I'm going nuts by the time I finally get to leave the hospital and go see my baby boy! We are all slowly adjusting and hopefully we will all continue to do well with this transition in our lives.

Here are some new pictures of Denver:

We tried a foam liner that lays in the tub for bath time...thinking he might like that better, but his Daddy was right he likes his blue tub the best. He likes lots of water to be able to splash and when you put enough water in with this yellow thing then he turns his head and drinks the water.

Elmo is one of Denver's best friends. He likes to play with Elmo and he fell asleep with him in his carseat one day.

Valentine's DayMom and Denver played at home all day and then Daddy came home from work and they played together for awhile. Then the 3 of us went out for supper and to Tom's basketball game.

Drew, Ethan, and Tom's Biggest Fan!

Denver loves to go to the Freeman Academy and Augustana Basketball games. He usually is very content and happy just watching the game. There is lots of action for him to watch and there are always new things to see!

Ethan, Denver, and Drew

(Ethan is too scared to hold Denver!)

Denver and Tom