First trip to Wenatchee

This weekend Callahan made is first trek over to Wenatchee where we had an eventful weekend. On Saturday Cal attended his first party, a baby shower in his honor. He was a perfect little boy and sucked up all the attention, and even stayed awake for the entire party. On Sunday Callahan had his pictures professionally taken which we are dying to see, where again he was the perfect baby. All weekend everyone that met Cal kept commenting on how he’s so good, and while Ian and I both think he’s more than perfect, we do think he was putting on a bit of a show for all his new friends cause he was amazing all weekend.

Callahan and I survived our first week with Ian back at work. I was very unproductive as I was amazed with how time consuming taking care of Callahan on my own is but who needs a clean house when you have a precious little baby to spend time with.

Here are some pictures from this weekend. We’ll post more pics in the next couple of days. Just wanted to get in some blogging while we have grandma and grandpa to watch the little guy (which has been SO nice to have the extra hands).

Hanging out with Pop (Grandpa)

Napping with mom

Trying on my new sun hat and booties

SO TIRED!

Ian's new best friend

Two week check-up

Callahan had his two week check up today with his doctor and he weighs a whopping 11 pounds and is 23 inches long. In the past 1.5 weeks, since we last saw his doctor, he’s gained almost two pounds!! He’s like his mommy and loves a good meal. Overall the doctor said that he looks great!

Two weeks old

Callahan is two weeks old today and we already feel like he’s changed so much. He continues to amaze us everyday! Ian went back to work today – his two weeks off went by way too fast. Cal has an appointment with his pediatrician on Wednesday and we’re really anxious to find out how much he’s grown.

Jealous Pug

Cal's first piece of mail - a basketball scholarship from WSU

Not loving bath time

Just chilling

Look how long I am

He loves riding in his car seat

Cal's favorite time of the day - nap time

One week old

Today Callahan is one week old and we are loving every minute of parenthood. He is doing great at home and we are starting to get a schedule down and are getting more sleep at night which has been wonderful. Every day the little guy amazes us. He has so many facial expressions and has even started to smirk and smile.

Callahan’s first doctor’s appointment was last Friday and his doctor said he looks great. He was almost back up to his birth weight, which impressed the doctor since he was only four days old, but the kid loves to eat so it didn’t surprise us.

Welcome Callahan Brady Hunter!

Callahan is three days old today! The little guy was born on Monday, February 11th at 7:06p.m., weighing a whopping 9 lbs, 6.7 oz. and is 21.5 inches tall. His size took all of us by surprise. Julie was induced Monday morning at 8:30 a.m. and went into active labor at noon.

We got home from the hospital yesterday (Wednesday) and are getting settled in. Callahan is doing great! Suzie and Clyde both love their new little brother very much and Suzie won’t leave his side.

Cal has his first doctor’s appointment tomorrow and we’ll post another update in the next couple days with some more pictures.

Big Boy!

Proud daddy

Can't get enough of him

Grandma & Grandpa Smith

Grandma & Grandpa Hunter

Weigh in on day 2

So cute!

Getting ready to go home

Dressed and ready to go

Lets hit the road!

41 weeks & still no baby...

Today he’s a week overdue. Looks like tomorrow is going to be the big day, hopefully! Julie is scheduled to be induced and we will get a call from the hospital when it’s a good time for us to come in. There is a possibility that we could get bumped if labor & delivery is too busy, but we are crossing our fingers that this is not the case and that they will call with the good word relatively early so we don’t have to sit by the phone all day. We are both REALLY ready for this and are so excited. We’ll make sure to call or text everyone once we head in so if you don’t hear from us it’s likely that we’re still sitting at home.

40+ weeks

Again, still no baby… We had a doctor’s appointment today and while all continues to look good with the baby, our doctor was really surprised that Julie hasn’t gone into labor yet. For those that know the medical jargon, Julie is 2-3 cm dilated, almost 100% effaced and the baby’s head is at a negative 1. Needless to say, Julie’s body is ready. We are just waiting for the contractions to progress. The doctor did schedule Julie to be induced next Monday (2/11). Unfortunately she’s out of town until Monday so we have to wait 6 days and if Julie has the baby this week she won’t be there to deliver. The good thing is that this will give us a little more time to hopefully have labor start naturally – which we are crossing our fingers will happen any minute/day.

Below is a picture of Julie at over 40 weeks – this is what being REALLY pregnant and really uncomfortable looks like.