5 Weeks Old

We are a little behind on this weeks post...Ryan has been a bit grumpy this week and has not made many windows available to post (or do much of anything else, like sleep!) Currently he's asleep in his moses basket in the bathroom since we have discvered the fan keeps him asleep. Max is at his grad classes all day today (he had them last night too) and soon Ryan and I are headed on our first public outting alone—the bridal studio to see my sister Kirstyn try on dresses. Poor guy is already havig to do chick things and he's only 5 weeks old.

Ryan had his 1 month check up Monday. It went well! He's now a whopping 10lbs 2oz, and 22.5 inches long. He has developed some sort of contact rash (most likely heat rash from us over bundling him given tha the temp with the wind chill here is -10!) but the rash is on the way out. All in all, it was a great check up and he's thriving.

Last Sunday Ryan had his first "photoshoot" a friend of mine who is a gifted commercial photographer, Bob Neumann of Big Event Studios, offered to take Ryan's portraits. I have included some highlights below. Bob did an amazing job and we are so thankful for his time and generosity. He truly captured our little guy!

You can see the entire shoot at our photosite maxandcourt.shutterfly.com. Note that there are two photo galleries of the same pictures. The top one, labeled (square) is the images in their original format. Knowing that many of our family members are ordering prints from shutterfly, we made a second gallery labeled (standard) that will allow those who want prints to order pictures in 4 x 6, 5 x 7, 8 x 10 sizes since the square images require cutting down and special frames. We hope you enjoy them as much as we have.

I hear Ryan waking so I should run. By the way, we owe many of you thank you notes for all our YOUR generosity. Please know that we are far from ungrateful....just learning how to juggle all the balls.

love to you all,
Court, Max and Ryan