Babysoroos

We’re getting ready to apply for a passport for Timothy, and we decided to have Eric try to take the pictures himself at home. Our experience with Ben, while not terrible, was fairly frustrating. They were able to do infant shots, but it wasn’t really their specialty. And getting a small infant with his eyes open, looking at the camera, not crying… well, it was challenging and the resulting photo that met the technical specifications isn’t remotely flattering. 😉 He only has it for five years though.

So, I think Eric got a shot or two that should work. But Timothy chose tonight to decide that he should smile for the camera. Which of course is not what the passport people want. He’s been smiling at us here and there for a little while, mostly responding to our smiles. Tonight it was totally unsolicited, though, which made it that much more fun.

Here are a few cute photos that won’t work for official documentation.

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A few more recent photos of both our boys. 🙂

Benjamin:

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Timothy:

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Timothy was one month old on Tuesday. Of course, it’s flown past, and he’s changed so much already — mostly, he’s grown. 🙂 At our midwife appointment on Tuesday afternoon he was weighed.

12lbs 10oz. At 4 weeks.

Of course, Ben was 12lbs 9oz at 3 weeks 6 days, so it’s not exactly unexpected. Looks like Timothy is definitely growing like Ben did.

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Timothy saw his first snow last week. It started on Wednesday morning, and by that evening we had about 4 inches. School was cancelled again on Thursday. We all went out to play while it was snowing, even Timothy. He was very well bundled up, but still only out for about 5 minutes. Ben and Dad built a great huge snowman with a very unusual head. 🙂

And yesterday, the temperature was 70ºF. Crazy weather.

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Now that he’s not sick anymore, Ben has been very interested in holding his little brother. He does a pretty good job, and he seems so proud of being the big brother. 🙂

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Obviously, he’s feeling better.

…just not always at night. 🙂

We’re really doing pretty well. This whole second kid thing — we’re experienced. We’re relaxed. We think we know what we’re doing. We’re tired, yeah, but we can cope.

When we saw the midwife yesterday, Timothy weighed 9lbs 14oz. That’s up 1lb 4oz in exactly one week. Guess he’s following in his big brother’s footsteps when it comes to weight gain!

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Ben’s been handling the whole big brother thing quite well too. He seems quite proud of his baby brother. Unfortunately, he’s been sick this last week, so we’ve had him home from preschool and had to try to keep him away from the baby. Poor kid, that’s been hard for him.

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