Do these stripes make my butt look big?

Chillin' in the
cute puppy outfit
from "auntie" Colleen

Relaxing on my boppy

The littlest mobster

Lauer is "thumbing" his nose like a little mafia boss.
He is Italian after all!! He's probably ordering a hit
on Nilla for always trying
to lick his head.

Cutie pie

This is a bad camera angle for the schnoz, it looks like it takes
up half his face!! He was in trouble either way as far as noses go--
either he'd get the Rota nose or the Boyer ski jump. I'm glad it's the Rota nose!
At least he's a boy otherwise we'd be saving for a nose job for a girl! haha
I love how his little tongue is out!

Smilin' for mom

Here's my happy little guy!
I just melt when he smiles--even
if it is just gas!!
Poor little guy has developed a killer case
of baby acne on his chin and cheeks! Plus he's
still constipated! Poor fella

Lovin' from Gramma Judy

Gramma Judy and "Grandpa
Jer came over last night to visit
and brought Ambassador pizza.
Yumm!

Moose is pooped too

Pooped out pooch

Apparently Lauer
is keeping the dogs up
at night too!

"Bear" feet

Little lover has
his "bear" feet!
I just love this outfit and
he's almost too big for it!
:(

Woe is me

What a tough life

Arms up!!

When the arms are both up,
he's totallt out!

Sleepy Smile

A sleepy little smile after daddy fed him his
7:00am bottle.

He has to have his hands by his face

Lauer always has at least one hand up by his
face when he's sleeping. Just in case he needs
to pop it in his mouth or something.

who is more excited?

Our first family outing besides the dr.'s office.
As much as I have always complained about
going grocery shopping it felt like a big treat
just to get out yesterday! We made sure to
go during naptime and there wasn't a peep out
of the little guy. :)

1st trip to daddy's "Holy-land"

Lauer's first trip to Walmart!!
The first of what I'm sure will be
hundreds knowing his daddy.
And of course they visited the
office supply aisle-dad's favorite.

Too tired for cake

As you can tell, Lauer
wasn't as excited over the cake as
mom and dad were. We couldn't wait
for him to wake up to cut it (we tried) so
we decided that a sleeping pic with the
cake was better than none at all.
And let me tell you--that cake is
fan-tas-tic!! Talk about a perfect little
sugar buzz pick me up for sleep deprived
parents! What a Godsend! Thank you
again Suze and Bob!!

Thank you Aunt Suzi and Uncle Bob

Aunt Suzi and Uncle Bob
had us made (our favorite!!)
blueberry cream cake from
Jim's!! Thank you so much!!!

Sorry we haven't posted in a while!

It's been a while but it's because we finally "hit the wall". The new baby euphoria that carried us through the sleeplessness started to wear off and fatigue totally hit--and hard. We've spent the last 2-2 1/2 days trying to sleep when he does and trying to find our rhythm. Then since he decided that he had just had it all together with the breastfeeding-pumped milk in a bottle too, we had to do a hard quick switch over to totally formula which is making the poor little guy very constipated! We've been doing the water and karo syrup thing which is helping a little but it's slow. At least he doesn't have the terrible belly pains now. His bilirubin kept going down and his color is much better now. Luckily we didn't have to do the heliotherapy. I think just getting the formula regularly was enough.
We are definitley learning what his needs are and learning that we need to tend to our own too. For those of you who know me, I didn't even shower yesterday! Imagine that. I couldn't tell you the last time that happened. And it's not unusual to eat breakfast at 2 in the afternoon. It's amazing how much time you spend tending to their needs and just gazing into their perfect little faces. Jase is doing awesome too. He's pretty pumped that he gets to be home for all of the college basketball games. Lauers first words will be "foul" or "3 pointer. Dogs are doing very well too. Only problem is barking when someone comes to the door or up the driveway. The baby ignores it pretty well but it's tough when one of us is trying to catch a few zzz's.
Otherwise things are going pretty well for just being home a little over a week and as soon as we catch up on our sleep and get into a little better schedule/rhythm, we'll start having visitors and taking him out to visit. Thanks for thinking of us and sending us your well wishes and love.
Miss, Jase, and Lauer

Four Generations Picture

Here is our four generations picture.
Great Grandpa Norb, Grandpa Bob, Mom
Melissa, and Baby Lauer.
Ages range from 83 to 9 days old.

Meeting Auntie Cherie

Gramma impatiently waiting her turn

"Lauer Hour"

My dad comes over pretty much
every day to get his "Lauer Hour".
It's starting to get downright nasty
between him and my mom over who
gets to hold him. The term "baby hog"
has been used quite a bit. Once gramps
gets a hold of him though it's tough to get
him away.

My favorite face!!!

I just love it when he makes this
face!!! He'll do it sometimes when
the dogs bark.

Auntie Teri and Lauer

"auntie" Julie visits

Favorite place to nap

is on daddy's chest

First outing

We got him all decked out in auppy outfit for his 1st outing. He had his 1 week check-up and the Dr thought he was kind of yellow so we had the 1st of what would be 3 heel sticks to check his bilirubin. Poor little guy!