It is said that it was a woman's face which was the Face That Launched A Thousand Ships but I now believe that face could be the face of a baby boy. Just look at him. I took these yesterday while Chance was sleeping. I went to my 6 week post-partum checkup today and all is well. Chance was very good while we were there and everyone thought he was just the cutest. We didn't get to see Dr. Reitan because she was off delivering another baby but I will bring him with me for my next appointment so she can see him then.

Mardi Gras is here! Yesterday was a very big day for all of us. We started the day with a good night sleep (Chance only woke up at 3am and 7:30am). Then, we met a friend for Lunch at 1pm to talk about a stay-at-home job for me entering items on his website. We walked directly from the restaurant to the car and we all three started driving to Baton Rouge. It is about an hour and a half drive, not too long. Chance was wonderful, I think he slept the whole way. We went to the Baton Rouge Airport to pick up a rental car for Scott, he left today on a week long tour of some of the stations that BitCentral installed last year. He is doing follow-ups with these stations, mostly for customer service purposes, he will be in Georgia and North Carolina then back home. Chance and I stopped at a gas station before heading back home. I changed and fed him then filled the car with gas and grabbed a drink for myself and then we were off. Scott in his rental car and Chance and I in our car back toward New Orleans. Chance, played a little in the back seat before falling asleep again. The first Mardi Gras parade rolled last night through the Quarter just half a block from our house. It started at 7pm, we arrived back home at 6pm and had a Hell of a time finding parking (in hindsight we should have started for Baton Rouge earlier). Finally we did find parking however and made the long walk to the apartment. I changed and fed Chance again, we met up with Dan and we were off again. With Chance in the sling we walked down to the coffee shop to watch the parade. We met up with some of Dan's friends and had a drink. This parade is the best parade of the season. It is called Krew Du Veiux and is the only traditional Mardi Gras parade still rolling. All the floats are pulled by man power or horses no motors allowed. They threw beads and cup and stickers and all different things of course but we didn't really try for anything we were just enjoying being out with friends and showing Chance his first Mardi Gras parade. He didn't participate much, mostly he just slept but next year I think he will like it and the years after that he will probably really enjoy the parades. He was very good though, there were bands going by and people yelling and clapping and we were right in the middle of it, they don't rope anything off for this parade so you can literally walk right with the people in the parade, we were very close to all the noise and Chance never flinched. After the parade we came back home, I fed him and played with him a little and off to sleep he went and didn't wake up till 3:30am. He is such a good baby.

Chance is six weeks old today! He is growing, everyday I look at a different part of him and think how much bigger it is. The other day I was looking at his feet and thinking how much they have grown and then today I was looking at his hands and thinking how much they have grown. He is just perfect. He seems to be going through a littlw growth spurt now too, he wants to eat all the time. I have given him a little formula because it seems to fill him up a little better than breastmilk. He has gotten into a routine now (for the most part), he still sleeps a lot and for the most part sleeps well at night. He will lay in his crib for a while before he goes to sleep and usually for a while before he cries after he wakes up and look around at all the animals on his crib bumper or up at his mobile. He really likes when I turn the mobile on he will sometimes just listen to the music but usually he looks at the animals there too. He will turn his head toward voices now. In the morning when I am putting on makeup and putting in my contacts I will put him in this little bounce chair from the pictures and put him on the floor in the bathroom. He will just sit there looking around and following me around the room. I also put him in this chair when I am working in the kitchen and he will sit there and following me around while I talk about what I am doing. He holds his head up better now and makes some cooing noises. I was sick for a couple days this past week and Scott was great, he got up everytime with Chance so I could sleep. Which helped the cold pass much quicker. Scott did not get sick and Chance has shown no signs of getting sick, so far. All these pictures were taken today so these are him at 6 weeks. He is just bigger all the way around. Any time I worry he is not eating enough I just look at his chubby cheeks and know he is doing just fine. These two pictures kind of look like he is doing a little dance.

Chance is awake for longer and longer periods. Also it seems that when he is awake he is looking around more and interested in things around him more. He also has just started to reach for things. His coordination is still not very good but sometimes you can tell that he is flinging his arms in the direction of your face or a toy you are dangling in front of him. Yesterday I put these rings in his hand just to see what he would do. I set him up on his Boppy pillow and let him have fun. He hasn't really seemed to notice his hands yet without the rings and he didn't seem to notice them with the rings either. He liked to sit up on the Boppy and look around more than he seemed to care about the toy but it was fun all the same. I put the second picture up here even though it is blurry because you can see in his face that he is really having fun. He made lots of smiley faces while he was playing on the pillow but I couldn't get a good one that wasn't blurry this time. I have taken a lot more pictures over the last week or so and I uploaded them to Yahoo so feel free to check them out just follow the link that I think for some reason has moved to the bottom of the page. All Our Photos

Don't believe a word they say about Shiloh, Chance is the hippest baby on the block. These are some photos of Chance all decked out in his kick butt skull cap, his Little Chopper onesie and his flame BabyLegs. We love BabyLegs by-the-way they are one size and now they hug his legs but have a little fabric scrunched at the top and bottom which leave his feet out and you don't have to take them off for diaper changes. They will grow with him so they will protect his knees and legs when crawling and will leave his feet free for when he starts to walk while being able to still keep his legs warm. Being able to keep his legs warm is a good thing since I haven't found a bootie or sock that will stay on his little feet, he kicks around too much.

Chance and I went to blockbuster the other day and he was very kind to help me carry the movies and microwave popcorn out to the car. He is such a gentleman already.

My Mom and Grandma were here to visit this week. It was really a great experience to have them both here. It is amazing how Grandma's and Great-Grandma's have that thing. They pick up Chance and within a couple minutes (usually not that long) he is quiet. Thay just know how to hold him and all the little tricks and games to play. We went down to the coffee shop every morning for breakfast. One morning we took our camera. One of the ladies who works there calls me caterpillar Momma since Chance looks like a caterpillar when he is in his sling. We asked her to take our picture. This is one of all four of us.

Chance is 5 weeks old today. He is growing so much it is crazy just to watch him. He is getting so much more alert everyday. Just yesterday I showed him a toy and he actually looked at it and followed it around. He has also started making happy faces, smiles and little giggle faces without the giggle sounds. It is funny how a happy face one second can turn to a cry face the next second. It is like he is not sure how he feels about the situation and his emotions are running wild. Sometimes he looks like he is just testing out his face muscles and all the different faces he can make. His little baby acne is getting better hopefully in a few more days his face will be clear again like when he was born. He likes to sit up when he is awake and one thing he likes a lot is to put him up over your shoulder like you are going to burp him and let him look all around the room. Sometimes he tries to crawl up your chest his legs are strong and getting stronger everyday. It seems like he will be crawling in no time with those legs. His personality shows more each day as well. He has also just started to recognize voices and he looks at me when I talk to him. It's amazing to just watch all the new things he can do. He sleeps very well and only wakes up twice per night also I can put him in his crib for naps and when it is night time and he will cry for just a minute and then look around at the crib bumper and his mobile for a while and then go off to sleep it is wonderful. He does such a good job with that. I guess those are all the new things he is doing this week but that is a lot for such a little guy.

This post is just an excuse to show off more pictures of Chance. With Scott gone we have mostly just been hanging out at the house, sleeping, pooing, eating you know the drill. Today however we went out in search of a geocache. It was a virtual geocache becuase my GPS is not working (I think I need a new one). We went just a few miles down I10 to find a NASA assembly station and there a huge Rocket Booster. It was cold so I just jumped out of the car and back in as quick as I could, Chance waited where it was warm, in the car. After we collected our cache we went grocery shopping. Chance, has been very good every time we have taken him to the store and this time was no different. These pictures are from this morning when I went in to get him out of bed. This monkey was a gift from Kristy while we were in the hospital when Chance was born. In these pictures he is 4 weeks and 2 days old.

This morning like most mornings Chance woke up at 9:00 am (ok a little before, but who's keeping track). I fed him, dressed him and then brought him into our room which seems to be the trend as he is wide awake at 9:00am and will not go back to sleep right then. We usually play with him a little bit and lay him down on our bed while we get up and take turns watching Chance and getting dressed. He was all wrapped up in one of his new little blankets when he fell back to sleep on our bed. I thought he looked like one of those GlowWorms that light up everyone used to have. Ok maybe only I used to have one but hopefully you know what I am talking about. He is just the height of cuteness and so I had to take some more pictures of him. He is 4 weeks and 1 day old today. You can see how he has grown from looking at the pictures on this blog. He is growing but he is still just a little GlowWorm.