When Jake, Brenden, and Rylan were about 2 1/2 weeks old we did pictures with our favorite photographer, Pete Draugalis. I LOVE the pictures we had taken. Each of them has a black and white of them laying on their stomachs with a white onesie on and we got 3 pictures of each child with different facial expressions framed together. I really wanted to do the same with Miles which meant a trip up to Michigan.
I was originally going to take just Miles with me, but Chris had to go up for work and with Jake and Brenden having school off for Martin Luther King Day we decided to make a trip of it with the whole gang. We left Sunday morning in two cars since Chris would be staying an extra day. Chris normally stays at Weber's Inn so he booked an extra room for Sunday night and we figured we could just have a family day hangin' at the hotel swimming and watching football. Unfortunately, the hotel was packed for a hockey tournament so we were unable to get rooms that joined, but they were able to give us a suite for one of the rooms. However, the other room not only didn't join the first one, but it was a couple of doors down the hall. So we decided to scrap the 2nd room and asked my brother if would take the boys for the night so we didn't have to worry about them bouncing off the walls all night. It all worked out great and the boys had a great time with their Uncle Chris. We also had a couple of our friends stop by the hotel for a quick visit and meet Miles.
The next morning was off to Pete's for pictures. Chris, Rylan, Miles, and myself went out for a quick breakfast and then met Chris, Jake, and Brenden at the studio to take pictures. We did a "quick" family shot so Chris could get going to his meeting. The rest of us hung around for pictures of Miles with me and with his brothers and sister. It went well and I think we got some good shots. Pete put a few pictures up on Facebook that were great and I'm excited to see the rest.
After pictures we all went to lunch with Uncle Chris before we hit the road back south. It was a very nice quick trip and a successful one. The kids were great for me for the ride back and we survived our first night with Daddy gone and only Mommy to get all 4 kids to bed - the 1st of many I'm sure :)
And now we have my mom visiting/helping until February 2nd. We're still trying to get a routine/schedule down for Miles - its been hard with sickness, visitors, etc. He was doing great in his crib when we first moved him there, but after a few days he started having a lot of pain from around 3-5am. Last night was the first night in at least a week that he didn't seem completely uncomfortable and need to be held for a large portion of the night. He also did a 5 hour and 4 hour stretch between feedings so hopefully this will become a trend. He's eating every 2-3 hours during the day and is starting to have 2-3 long stretches of being awake during the day to check things out. Jake, Brenden, and Rylan are still loving him and asking to hold him lots which he seems to enjoy as much as they do. I'm back coaching 2-3 times a week and teaching swim lessons one morning a week. And Chris is off tomorrow for a long trip for work so it seems official that we're getting on as a family of 6. Its hard to believe its already been 3 weeks!
Here are a couple of the shots from Facebook that Pete took and some recent pictures of Miles
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