Life with the Leonard’s

Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Birth Announcement

I went onto the Shutterfly website this morning uploaded pictures and created this beautiful birth announcement while Christian was napping. It was very easy to do and because of discount codes sent to me from Shutterfly I get 10 birth announcements and 100 4X6 prints FREE! Next look forward to putting together a few hard bound photo books through Shutterfly to give as gifts! :-) I LOVE Shutterfly!!

Stationery Card

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Monday, May 20, 2013

Christian's 1 month Well Check & Photos

On May 17th I did a quick photo shoot with Christian. After I finished taking pictures and had changed his clothes I noticed you could see the big spot where he had spit up in all the pictures. Oh well "Spit Happens"! Christian had his 1 month well check on May 20th. He is now 22 inches long and weighs 10 pounds! It's awesome to see him thriving. The pediatrician was impressed with how alert he was. He encouraged me to get him on a strict schedule sooner rather than later. This mama isn't sold on not feeding her baby when he's hungry so it will be a slow process before I put him on a strict schedule and not feed him at night. I am going to start by documenting when he eats and sleeps, see what kind of pattern we have and go from there. It's unreal that he's already a month old. He stills seems so little but I can tell he's growing too. He's starting to look at us a little more, practicing his smile and making more noises. He was also blessed this last weekend by meeting his Grammy & Grampy (John's folks). It was a great visit!

I love my brother!

LeAnne absolutely adores her little brother. She loves kissing him, reading to him and talking about him. She loves helping me and loves to hold her little brother. On Wednesday May 1st when Christian was one week old she took him for Share (show & tell) at school. She was so proud of her little brother! Today it was hilarious when Christian was grunting LeAnne says "That's my boy"! It was precious!

While working on the blend TH LeAnne came up with the word brother and completely on her own wrote the sentence I love my brother! Her teacher took a picture of it and sent it to me in a text. It totally made my day!!

My prayer is that these two will be close. I cherish the relationship I had with my brother growing up, always wanted to marry a man who was a combination of my dad & my brother and LOVE my little brother with all my heart! :-)

Newborn Photo Shoot with LeAnne & Christian

On May 7th John & I did a photo shoot of Christian and LeAnne using some ideas I had found on Pinterest.

LeAnne's shirt says Big Sister to a Little Mister and Christian's says Lil Mister

Firsts for Christian

Daddy gave Christian his first bath at home when he was two days old.

Christian had his first floor time and wore his first pair of Jeans on Mother's Day May 10th.

Christian wore his first cloth diaper on May 12th. I am planning to transition to cloth diapers as soon as we can afford to get my fluff stash built up (cloth diapers & supplies purchased). I've been asking my friend who is cloth diapering tons of questions, she sent me some to try and I've been watching tons of youtube videos. Cloth diapers have come along way since I wore them. I want to use cloth diapers because it will save us a significant amount of money.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Unmistakably Siblings & 1 week photo shoot

Our first week at home was wonderful! Christian is a very mellow baby. He caught onto nursing fairly quick. At his one week appointment he weighed 8 pounds 3 ounces. LeAnne is adjusting very well ! It is amazing how much LeAnne and Christian looked alike when they were born. My husband tried to take the same picture of Christian than he did 5 years earlier with LeAnne and put together an awesome collage. They look like twins. Below is a photo shoot we did in our backyard when Christian was a week old.