I promise he's not as bald as he looks!

But he is just as stinkin cute as he looks!

i LOVE my boys

Preston had his 1 month checkup today.
YEP. He's already a month old. I don't know where the time is going....

But the doctor said he's doing great! He was impressed at how alert Preston was as well as the fact that he's already trying to roll over. Little does he know that was just Prestons "where's the bottle" back/head arch. But thats ok if he wants to think he's advanced!

He now weighs 9 lb 10 oz - which puts him in the 25th percentile

He's almost 22 inches (just a bit shy of that) - which is in the 75th percentile!

It was a successful appointment followed up by a visit to Aunt Jen's where he decided to show her just how much he loves her by peeing on her during a diaper change. Now thats love.

This past week we've been working hard on getting Preston to learn to fall asleep on his own, and even more important in his own bed. Before this week he'd only sleep if I was holding him and spent his nights in bed with us. But not anymore!

At first there was a lot of this going on. . . .

And more of this. . . .

But that led to more of this going on!!

And now he's on a really good schedule. Every 3 hours he'll eat, then we play- playing for us is usually dance parties, then I'll lay him down and he'll sleep for 2 hours. Repeat repeat repeat!

In case your wondering, this is what a 1 month old Preston looks like:

Notice his spiky hair in this picture!

LOVE him!!

Lots of firsts!

It's hard to believe that Preston is already 3 weeks old. He already seems so big!!
I never thought I'd be so in love with something so fast, but we're kind of obsessed over him. But for good reason. The kids super cute.

The past week brought about lots of new things for him, and for us as we experienced them with him. Things like. . .

1st big boy bath!
Yeah, he screamed the entire time. But he always cry's whenever we take his clothes off. And really thats the only time he lets loose and screams. Most of the time its just little fussy noises or fake crys (we learned how to spot those real fast). He is getting a liiiitttle better with the screaming in the bathtub, and promptly stops as soon as he's wrapped up in his monkey towel.

1st time going to church!

His church outfit is the only one with pants that actually fit him. He looked like a real boy all dressed up! He did well, until the opening song. Then he got the HUGEST frown on his face and started fussing. I dunno, maybe he just didn't like the song.

1st time going for a walk!

I really think he enjoyed being outside. We walked up to Bashas to pick up some more formula and milk, and he was very content the entire time. I was concerned the whole time about making sure the sun wasn't in his eyes, and he was concerned the whole time with trying to eat his sweater. We make a good team.

1st day being alone...

Patrick went back to work on Wed after being home for 3 weeks. Needless to say it was a very different kind of day for me and Preston. We didn't get much done, but we had a good day. Just a couple of redheads hanging out together.

OH! And as for other updates on the goings on around here, Andrew got his mission call to Tallahassee, Florida and leaves March 24th. And Jimmy got accepted to BYU Provo & BYU Hawaii. He's still making the decision on which one to attend, but he'll probably be leaving in July to start preparing for school. So after July it'll just be the 3 of us living here- which will be another 1st. And Jack of course.

Preston's Room

Because he's just that cool!

Preston

PRESTON PATRICK REYNOLDS

JANUARY 13TH, 2010

11:17PM
8 LBS. 3 OZ.

21 1/2 INCHES

PERFECT.

Halfway Catch-up!

So it's been awhile since I've updated! Things have changed. And by things I mean I'm getting HUGE!! Actually until I looked at the picture we just took of my belly I had no idea I was this pregnant. But I am! And its going great. Now that all of that morning sickness is gone I'm at the point that the books call "comfortably pregnant". I don't know if I would use the word "comfortably" but it's not so bad. We're at 23 weeks now, almost 6 months along. Our due date is still Feb. 2, 2010, which really is just around the corner if you think about the holidays and everything. Preston is growing and developing as he should. He apparently knows kung-fu, and I'm very proud and supportive of, but I do so wish he wouldn't practice in the middle of the night. Actually his most active time is in the morning right when I get to work (about 5am) and then at night when we have some tummy time and talk about things like Project Runway or So You Think You Can Dance and read with Patrick. He's around 11 inches now, and weights about 1.1 pounds. I wish I could say that I still crave fruit, because I do so miss those days. Instead now he seems to want things like hot pockets, chips, donuts, ding dongs... basically he wants to eat like a college student. But I try to keep things under control. So without futher adu, here's the belly shot....

Other then being pregnant things are continuing as normal. My work schedule changed, so now I work from 5-2, which means Patrick gets company when he's up for work at 3:30am. Can't say its happy smiling company though. It's only for a month though, then in November I'll be working 6-3. I'll probably still go to bed at 7:30 though! The other day after an especially horrible day of work Patrick brought me home this:

As a matter of fact that IS a Hannah Montana balloon! And there were chocolates, but I'm almost positive by the time the pictures were taken those were a thing of the past. He takes good care of me. Even if it means getting mozzarella sticks and strawberry shakes and telling me that I dont look fat, just pregnant. I love him.

We've found a way that we want to decorate the babys room. Actually Patrick picked it out ages ago when we first got pregnant. We havent started decorating yet, just getting ideas, and working on cleaning up the room before we decorate. I havent bought much yet either, just some onsies, socks, and a baby blessing outfit (it has a baby sized vest and tie!!). My goal is to get the room done before we're at 8 months. So I've still got time! This is what we want to do:

The wall decals we're going to order from a website we know if, and then we'll just paint before putting them up. Then as far as other stuff this is what I'm thinking:

And this baby mobile:

Shouldn't be hard to make, just a matter of cardstock and printing off some of the ? marks. Hard part will be finding an old mobile that I can use to construct it.
But I'm excited about it all! I can't wait for it to come together!!