Lincoln 2 Months

Our little president is now 2 months!  At his two month appointment he weighed 12 lbs 15 oz, measured 23.5 inches long, and was diagnosed with baby eczema.

Lincoln is such a good eater.  At this point he is taking 6 ounces every 4 hours during the day and, if we get lucky, nothing at night!  Mr. Lincoln slept through the night for the first time at 7 weeks.  Unfortunately, he's not consistently sleeping through the night, but more like every fourth night.  I'll take what I can get!

During month two the boys have definitely become more interested in each other.  Given loves his little brother and announces his arrival at daycare every afternoon during pick-up.  He also loves to sing to him, give him his pacifier, and pat his head.  In turn, Lincoln loves the attention and is always smiling at Given.  Lincoln also follows Given with his eyes whenever he is in the room.  I hope they grow up being besties!  Check out the cute videos here and here.

Lincoln was baptized on March 8th at St. Vincent de Paul by Father Ken.  He wore the same baptismal gown that his Grandma Eoff wore, that I wore, that Given wore, and many of his Strube kin wore!  That gown is very special to us.

Also during month two, Mr. Given was potty trained.  He is doing such a good job and we are very proud of Big Brother!

I can't wait to see what is in store for month 3!

Mr. President

Lincoln Zane made his grand entrance into the world on January 13th!  He weighed in at 7 lbs 13 oz and was 21.5 inches long.

We sure have loved him being here, but this has been quite the interesting month!  Grandma Eoff came to help out. - Grandpa Eoff joined her a few days later. - Nana and Jeddi came to visit for a week. - Lincoln caught a cold on week 2. - Momma pulled a muscle in her back. - We've had many visits from our wonderful friends (bearing gifts and food). - Lincoln passed his cold on to me and Given.  - Celebrated two 33rd birthdays! PHEW!

Lincoln's one month appointment went really well.  He now weights 10 lbs 5 oz and is 22 inches long.

Lincoln is a very good eater!  He's been taking 4 oz of formula every 3 to 4 hours since he's been a week old.  At this point he definitely could take more, but the doctor thinks I should stay at 4 oz for now.  Poor thing is only a month old and already on a diet!!

I'm not really sure if Lincoln is a good sleeper.  Its hard to tell with the cold and all his congestion.  Poor thing has trouble breathing, so sleeping is kind of hard.  Thank goodness for our friends Emily and John who gave us their baby swing.  He loves that swing!  He also really just wants to be held while he sleeps...

Here are a couple of pictures I took of my one-month old baby!  I will post more picture from our crazy first month soon!

Sunny in San Francisco

Yes, we are alive, and although I'm super late in posting, I have been taking pictures!  For Given's 8 month birthday San Francisco decided to give us our first beach weather weekend! Going to the beach with an 8 month old wasn't nearly as fun as going sans children.  I thought it would be easier since Given isn't crawling yet, but I forgot to factor in that he puts everything into his mouth!!!!!!  I think our next beach trip will be several months from now!

And just because...Given's new favorite activity - taking every single toy out of his basket.  We haven't gotten to the stage of him putting everything back though!

Given's milestone in April was getting his 2nd tooth!!  The 2nd tooth came in much easier than the 1st - thank goodness.  He isn't crawling yet, but he's getting there.  Also, during April Given started saying Dada (first) and Mama.  We aren't quite sure if it's babble or if he is addressing us!

7 month update

I'm late on posting birthday pictures again, but these were taken on Given's 7 month birthday (right after bath time)!

Given's big milestones in March were sitting up on his own and his first tooth!  Given is a really easy baby.  He rarely cries and he loves to sleep.  Ummmm, cutting his first tooth was HARD.  He ran a really high fever and just cried and cried and cried and cried.  Poor little thing (and poor momma and daddy).  He was so uncomfortable.  Also, for the first time since probably he was a month old, he woke up every 2 hours in the night and just wanted to be rocked.  Lets all keep our fingers crossed that the next teeth aren't quite as bad!

Given also loves his soft toys!  And now that I feel comfortable that he is not going to suffocate himself with any of them, we have quite the line up for bedtime - Monsieur Rat (who came all the way from Paris), a giraffe softie (thanks, Kim!), and his lion pacifier (who gets more swung and thrown around than sucked on)!


Oh, don't let these pictures fool you, this was the day after the cutting of the tooth incident.  He was having a happy 10 minutes and I was able to sneak these pictures in.

6 months old

Given is now 6 months old, weighs in at 16 lbs 13 ozs, and is 27 inches long!  Still a string bean!  I actually took these the day of, but am a little late posting them!

If you can't tell, Given's new favorite thing is chewing on his feet!

Besides his feet, Given is now "chewing" on sweet potatoes, peas, carrots, avocado, and pears from his highchair!  Thank you for the highchair, Nana and Jeddi.  Contrary to the last post, he actually has gotten a hang of eating solids and quite enjoys it!  See for yourself.

Last but not least...he is rolling over like a champ.  As soon as he is on the ground, he is on his stomach!  I guess crawling is up next!


Oh, one more milestone - he is starting to sit up on his own!  This has been a busy month!


Do you think he has changed much?  See months one through five here.

How did this happen?

My little baby turned 5 months old.

1/25/12 

Let's see, what has been going on around here?  Given is now rolling over and we are working on sitting up on his own!  He still loves bath time.  He goes down around 6:30 pm and sleeps for a solid 12 hours.  He takes four 8 oz bottles of day.  At first he drank really, really slowly, but now he is gotten a bit quicker.  He is doing great at Claudette's Daycare and has four good friends.  One little girl is just a few weeks older than him.  Claudette caught them holding hands the other day!  He is going to be quite the ladies' man.

I can't believe solids and a sippy cup start in just a few weeks!  Looks like we will need to be hitting up Babies 'r Us for a highchair soon.

He is growing so fast!!!

4 months

Mr. Given turned four months this Christmas...and he is already reading!  What an advanced little boy!

We went to the doctor yesterday for his routine 4 month check up, and we have one healthy string bean! He weights 14 lbs and 10 ounces and is 26 inches long!

my boys - 3 months

This picture kind of makes my heart melt.  

November 22, 2011

On time - 8 weeks (almost 2 months)

Given had a big day yesterday!  Not only did he turn 8 weeks, but he experienced his first earthquakes (two big ones), he visited Momma's place of work and got to meet all her co-workers, and he slept through the night (7:30 pm to 5:30 am). 

Yesterday he also wore a big boy outfit!  I loved it.  It made him look so old!!

I took about a million pictures of him yesterday.  It was really hard to narrow it down to two!

6 weeks picture here

5 weeks picture here

1 Month

My baby is already one month old!  The time has flown by!  Here is Mr. Given at 5 weeks.

 Just for comparison purposes - his 2 day picture can be found here! 

Month 1 was a crazy adventure!  We have been out and about a lot!  The weather has been beautiful here in SF, so we have been on a lot of walks and outside lunches and glasses of wine (that constitutes getting fresh air, right?!).  We also have had lots of visitors, including Grandma and Grandpa Eoff, Aunt B & Uncle R, Tina, and Justin.  Given is very popular!  Here a few pictures to get us caught up.  My next post will be pictures from this last weekend.

Grandma stayed with us for almost 2 weeks.

Photo op at the Golden Gate Bridge.  I'm saving the picture of Given with Grandma and Grandpa for a special occasion!

Lunch in Napa

Grandpa came too!

I believe Omar is showing off Given's new UT outfit from Nana, not his "guns"!

Given and his giraffe pacifier.

The boys napping.

I wish it was safer to sleep on your tummy!

Given loves to stretch it out!