Trip to the lake

We went to Table Rock Lake weekend before last with Tim, Ashley and Crosby.


Brett and Crosby let us embarrass them by dressing them in matching outfits...

...for a little while, anyway!

Ready to swim!

God will provide

You always hear that "God will provide," and if you're naturally skeptical like me (or maybe it would be better described in this case as "not very imaginative"), you wonder how on earth it will happen since no one owes me a large sum of money. But maybe it's little things like this. I went to Target today and for some reason they had 84-packs of size 1 Luvs on clearance. For $4.24. It would normally be around $15. No other size was even on sale. There were two packs there, but I did'nt know until I got to the checkout that they were on clearance. Then, it was too late to get the other one without leaving Brett at the checkout, but I got out to the car, drove out of the parking lot, then decided it would be dumb not to get the other one too, so I went back. 168 diapers for like 9 bucks. Indeed, God will provide.

Here are some cute pics I took today:

First shots

Brett had his 8-week check-up today (OK, so he's 10 weeks old, apparently it doesn't matter that much!), which means he had to have 4 shots for vaccinations! I was explaining it to him yesterday and I told him that typically we have a "no needles in the baby" policy, but that we had to waive it for today because the shots were for his own good. He took the first one like a champ, mostly because he was really hungry and they'd just given him an oral vaccine, which worked out well, but then he definitely protested the other three. He has his first little Band-aids. I can't imagine how hard it will be to watch someday when he's in major physical pain, because it was hard enough to watch this. Oh, how I wish there was a way to keep him from ever feeling physical or emotional pain. But, I guess that wouldn't be a normal life.

As an update, he weighed 11 pounds and half an ounce, so he's still doing well gaining weight. His height was 23.5 inches, although neither Craig nor I thought the nurse stretched his legs out all the way, so who knows on that one!