So we tried to take some family pictures a few weeks ago and these are some of the better ones.
So a couple of days ago David started giving us a new look. He scrunches his eyes, opens his mouth and snorts as he laughs, its is so funny that when he does is I laugh so he does it more and we will laugh for awhile. It is so much fun.
Here are a few pictures of this new face of his, its hard to capture the whole look but I am sure you can get the idea.
Well David likes to help me around the house, for instance when I do laundry he is always tring to get into the basket. So sometimes I put him in........I thought I would share some pictures. He also likes to follow me when I vaccum, I don't think he totally understands what the noise is but he does like to be clean.
So its been awhile since I blogged..........David has been doing a lot of changing lately. He will be 10 months on Saturday, wow time has gone fast.
Well I know that this is normally about David and our little family but today I want to share with you all about a new member of our extended family. Adrian Patrick Bjorndal was born this morning April 22 @ 5:30 ish and weighed 8lb. 12oz. He is the son of my brother and sister-in-law Isaac and Jana Bjorndal and younger brother to Logan. Both mom and baby are doing well and Logan is very excited to be a big brother. They are all happy and glad to have him here.
Well David and I have come to a new time in both our lives.........he has moved on to the bottle. David is now on formula 100%, this was a sad and happy time for me, sad because I will miss the special times that we had well breastfeeding but happy because we were both ready for the change. The first few times he would almost refuse to take the bottle but in the end after a few days of persistence on my part he took to it and as you can see from these pictures he is happy to have his bottle. In fact now when he hears it being shaken or sees it he gets excited. I am happy to have breastfeed him for over 8 months but it was time. The nice thing now is that Chris and I can get babysitters and not worry about being at home to feed him, this is a nice perk. As well Chris is able to feed him now which he is enjoying!
Well time has really started to go by fast, David is growing so much. He loves to sit and play with his toys. He loves to laugh, he gets himself from sitting position to crawling position and he really loves standing and walking with help. David still hasen't totally figured out the whole crawling thing yet, what he does is crawl backwards and shimmys around the room. He has crawled a little bit but not consistantly, soon I am sure.
I was tagged by Tara about real moms, well this is my opinion
David had his first shower the other day. He joined his dad; at first David did not like the water beating on him. But the whole time David hung on tight to Chris as they cleaned up together.
So I was trying to get a picture of David lounging on his daddy, but it seems that every picture he closed his eyes. Now it looks like he is passed out and we are propping him up like a doll or something, although the smile on one picture does let you know he is a bit of a fake. Oh well they are still cute pictures.
Oh, and we are going to start throwing more pictures on to our flickr account, so for those of you who have been frustrated that there has been nothing new for a while, good news.
David also started to sit up on his own without supports about a week ago, he has been sitting for a long time now but usually with pillows around him. He really is fun to watch as he discovers himself and his personality.
Katherine
So we noticed over the last few months that there are certain people that David really likes. There are a few people that David is fond of, always staring at them, reaching for them, that sort of thing. But no one holds a candle to Jenna. Born on the same day, they met when each was less than 24 hours old. I don't know if that is the reason, or if it is something more, but David has a bit of a fixation on Jenna. It really became obvious in the last few weeks, as David started sucking Jenna's toes and fingers. Now, David doesn't do the toe thing with anyone else, this is rather special.
He also enjoys being very close with Jenna, and cuddles up every chance he gets. Young love is a precious thing, albeit a bit weird at this age, but still very cute.
Well this was our first Christmas and New Years with David. It was a lot of fun making new traditions with David. He wasn't to sure about what Christmas presents were or what we were doing. We gave him a floor gym (a mat that has toys hanging over it) for David to play with. This is one of his new favorite toys, when we pull it out for him he gets a big smile and starts leaning towards it. He also enjoys his Baby Einstein movies and sometimes he will watch them well playing on his floor gym.
Hey everyone, sorry that we have been a bit busy lately and haven't been updating our blog for a bit. We have been a little sick, with at least one of us in the house sick at any given time for over a month now. It looks like we are through most of it now, so hopefully we can get back to normal a bit.
So we have discovered a little bit of what things will be like in the future. People always say that a child will mimic the ways of his/her parents when they are older, but we have realized that it starts pretty early. This particular shot is of David copying his Mom when she was sticking her tongue out, which we found to be quite adorable (at least when David does it, maybe not when some others might). But it's not just that sort of thing. David has been developing other manerisms from us too. He has got a great smirk going a lot of times that I think he probably got from me. As well, much of his noises are somewhat similar to how Katherine Talks to him (thankfully not "babytalk-ish"), and he winks sometimes, which we are not sure is on purpose but is still increadibly cute. The whole copying thing just makes it that much more fun to play with David.
So David is 11 and a half weeks now and is becoming more interactive with both the camera and the people around him. Actually David is becoming a bit of a flirt, he loves to smile and make noises for us as his parents but also for others around him. The other day I was talking to some teenagers at our church and they started to talk to David and he just looked up at them and started to flirt (by this I mean smile) at them it was very cute. They teens thought it was fun too.
When we take out the camera to take pictures of him he turns right towards it and starts to smile and make faces at it. This of course encourages us to take more pictures of him.
David is growing so much that I have again in the last few days gone through his clothes to pull out some more things that he can fit. I think that he will be better dressed then both of us some days. But that's the way it is you spend more time on your childrens clothes then your own. Or at least that's the way it seems.
Heimsoth Family
So, the weather has been getting colder here in Kamloops lately, which is cool because we have these nifty outfits for David. Yes, it is Baby Long-underwear!!! We have this set on loan from friends, but I think we are going to have to make sure he has a few pairs of his own, because he is incredibly cute in them. He looks like he passed out after a hard day of skiing or something, which I hope you are trying to imagine seeing in your head right now, because my mental image of it is pretty funny. (Since he can only hold his head up for a few minutes at a time, not even getting into the fact that he can't stand up and has, to my knowledge, never seen a pair of skis) All the same, he is really cute and we thought we would share the sight with whoever actually reads this blog.
P.S. He is getting so big, if you look on our flikr pics from when he was first born to now, it's crazy. (for those who are interested, as of our last check up from a week ago, he had grown 3 and a half inches already, and gained about 4 pounds)
Ciao
I thought that this was a cute picture of David. You see ever since David was born (and I mean minutes after he was born) he has had a camera in his face. Chris and I love to take pictures of him, we now have over 400 pictures and he is just over 10 weeks old. Due to this he is becoming an old pro for pictures time.
This actually happened a few weeks ago, but I thought I would just talk briefly about it. I got to feed David for the first time a little while back. We decided to wait for the first six weeks before we would introduce a bottle. We want David to be able to take a bottle once in a while. That way it gives us (and especially Katherine) a bit more freedom to go out.
Life around here is never boring around here. Looking back at our schedule, we have things going on pretty much every day. This isn't as big a deal when it was just Katherine and I, but now that David is here, we have realized we need to slow things down a bit. In our week, there is few days where he can just stay home all day long. So we are trying to figure out how to reschedule and cut a few things out so that we can maintain a life and have David be able to have a bit more consistency.
Sometimes, David is impresive just in the ways he finds to sleep. I can't imagine how I could make my foot go that way, but he seems comfortable with it. Hopefully his bones do actually exist, because it can sometimes be in doubt.
This evening we gave David a bath and took some pictures. David moved out of the baby bath to the regular bath a few weeks ago now, but tonight he started to have fun and play in it. We just thought that we would share some of the photos with you all. Enjoy!
