Grandma and Pop Pop Came to Meet Carter

A few weeks ago Grandma and Pop Pop came out to visit.  Jake was so excited to see them that I think Pop Pop is still recovering from the visit.  Basically when Pop Pop is around, nobody else sees Jake for a few days.  Since it was winter, we didn't get outside much but we did go to a local science museum so Jake could blow off some steam.

This is the first picture of Carter smiling.  Many thanks to Grandma for taking the picture.  These days he won't stop smiling, but this was just when he started responding to people with smiles.

Christmas 2012 and Some Random Pictures

This was an interesting Christmas for us this year so we don't have a ton of pictures to share.  About a week before Christmas, Carter started to get what seemed like a cold.  As the week progressed his symptoms got worse and by the Friday before Christmas he was admitted to a local children's hospital with RSV.  He wound up spending 6 days, including his first Christmas, in the hospital.  Jen spent all six days with Carter in the hospital.  Thanks to technology, we Jake and I were able to Skype with Jen on Christmas Day so that she could watch Jake open some of his gifts.  Thankfully Carter is doing MUCH better.

About a week before Christmas Jen found a video of a fireplace on Netflix.  Since we don't have a fireplace right now in the town house, we have had this running on the TV almost every day.  As you can see, we even hung our stockings by the fireplace as well.  Jen even claims that when this is on the TV it makes the room feel warner!

This is Spidey (aka Jake) helping out by opening Carter's presents a few days after Christmas.

Is it possible that we have two Batman fans in the house now?

 About a week ago we had enough snow so Jake and I went out to have some fun.  He went for a ride on a sled and even built a snowman.  Unfortunately, Jake had more fun knocking down the snowman that building it, but it was fun while it lasted.

After a hard day of playing in the snow, nothing is better than a cup of hot chocolate.  This was Jake's first cup of hot chocolate, and I think we have a fan for life. 

The First Month

This Thursday it will officially be one month since Carter joined the family.  So basically it has bee a month since Jen, Bailey and I have slept through the night.  Thankfully Jake is able to sleep through most of Carter's crying during the night.  At his last weigh in, Carter weighed 9.4 pounds.  And due to the fact that he seems to eat every hour, he has to be quickly approaching 11 pounds!  So here are a few of my favorite photo over the past few weeks.

It has been a while since we posted any pictures of Bailey, so here she is.

There is no way that Jake can be as old as he looks in this picture!  

These two are going to cause us some trouble as Carter gets older.

Since Halloween I am pretty sure that Jake has worn his costume almost every weekend and even some nights when he comes home from day care.  That thing is going to disintegrate around him one of these days.  He was so happy to put up the tree and more importantly the star.  Since we put up the tree he asks to be picked up to touch it almost as often as he wears his Spidey costume.

Every time I see this picture I think of those glamor school picture poses of the 80's and early 90's.  All we need is a fake bookcase or some other backdrop and we would be set.  

Introducing Carter Reid Widman (Updated)

Jen, Jake and I welcomed Carter to our family at 12:26pm today 11/6/12. He weighed in at 8 lbs. 12 oz. and measured 20.25 inches. Jen and Carter are both doing great!

Here are a few pictures from the hospital. Jake was very excited to meet "my baby".

OK, don't really have a lot of time, but I wanted to add a few more pictures.

 Grandmother came to visit and she was a HUGE help.  I think she probably needed a vacation from the few days she was here, but it was appreciated.

This was the first time that Jake held Carter.  Now it is all he wants to do! Carter did eventually stop crying and the two of them are getting along great.

Carter and Jen are both still doing well, and we are all settling into our new routines.  Be sure to check back as I hope to update this pretty regularly.

Fall Fest and Pumpkin Carving

This past weekend we went to the local Fall Fest put on by the town.  Jake had a great time.  He got to meet Buzz Lightyear, eat cotton candy, pick out a pumpkin and a bunch of other fun stuff.  

I am surprised Jake didn't want to go home and get his Buzz wings so he could be Buzz as well.

The Kansas City Kite Enthusiasts had quite a display of kites on a very windy day. I couldn't get a very good picture of the kites, but the huge cat in the background is just a weight to hold down the main kite which was over 100 feet in the air.

Jake had a chance to try and run with a parachute behind him.  He did a really good job for a while but got tired pretty quickly.  I think Jen and I need to invest in one of these so he can burn some extra energy on a regular basis.  Come to think of it, that would be good for Bailey as well!!!

Captain Jake.  There were balloon artists there who were making really cool things for the kids.  Once he got his balloons Jake kept saying, "Yo Ho Yo Ho a pirates life for me" and "AAARRRRR matey."  It really was quite funny.

I think he looks a little like Ponce de Leon here don't you?

When we got back from Fall Fest Jake wanted to carve the pumpkin we got.  For the most part he was very helpful scooping out all the seeds, but he didn't want to touch anything with his hands because it is "yucky."

The finished product.  A proud Jake smiling with his Jack-O-Lanern.  Jake was responsible for the entire design of the Jack-o-Lantern.