Tickets to the Gun Show

We just love the little arm "muscles" Jack has! He is a beefy boy.

Jack had his two month check-up at the doctor's yesterday. He is officially 16 pounds and 12 ounces! I had guessed he was around 15 pounds, because his carrier is really starting to get heavy...but I didn't know he was that big!

We had a bit of a rough visit at the doctor's yesterday. He pointed out that Jack's head is a bit flat on one side, so now we're all paranoid trying to get him not to lay on that side, which he definitely does favor. However...it's the demeanor of the doctor that bothers me. He always answers my questions like they are totally obvious. Well...if they were so obvious, then would I be asking them? I'm a new mommy here - cut me some slack!

Anyway, we're giving him one more shot at the 4 month check-up and if things don't improve then we're going to find somewhere else to go. Aunt Amy had a great point yesterday...if I don't like the doctor when Jack is well then I'm certainly going to have a tougher time with him when Jack is not feeling so hot. Thankfully, we haven't had to cross that bridge yet. I think I just don't have great luck with doctors. The same thing happened when I was pregnant; the more times I visited that practice the more I was ready to look elsewhere. Thankfully, we found Dr. Arshad who safely delivered our healthy, big boy.

If anyone has thoughts on picking a pediatrician, I'd welcome them...

New Faces to Meet

Jack has been busy lately meeting new family members! The day after Easter, Uncle Melvin paid us a visit while he was in Georgia staying at Sarah's house. The weather was rainy that day, but we had a great afternoon together inside at our house.
Jack's favorite part of the afternoon was taking a nice, long nap on Uncle Melvin's shoulder. Boy, does he look comfortable!

This past weekend on Saturday the 25th, Jack got to meet Uncle Evan and Aunt Emily for the first time! They drove down from Greenville to see us and hang out for the afternoon.

Next time we'll drive up to their house so we can meet our new cousins Ella and Easton!

10 Things I Love about Jack

I will try to keep this short and sweet...

10. When I feed him at 2 a.m. he always is ready to go back to sleep. I can only think of one time in the past 7 weeks with him where he wanted to party all night.

9. When he cries there is something legitimately wrong. Actually, there are many times when he doesn't cry and I know if it was me I'd be screaming my head off. Like stinky diapers, for instance. If I had on some of the ones he's had, I'd be a lot more angry about it than he is. Must be those laid-back Sewall genes at work... 8. He's big enough now to fill up the baby bathtub so it's not quite as terrifying to give him a bath. (No blackmail pictures here, though).

7. He likes to talk to Mommy and Daddy...particularly on the changing table for some reason. It's fun to see him discover his voice.

6. He doesn't mind it when Mommy and Daddy are extremely silly and try to talk back to him the same voice he uses on the changing table.

5. I love to watch him follow the Winnie the Pooh mobile in his room. With as many Winnie the Pooh articles as we have, it's a good thing he likes it. Not that he has much choice in the matter right now!

4. This probably sounds tacky, but I secretly love it when he gets out a really good burp after I feed him. I don't know why that makes me proud of him, but strangely enough it does...

3. I love that when he's worried or concentrating on something, he looks the most like "Mini-Lyle." Sometimes I could swear he's already starting to solve the engineering problems in his head. No pressure, though, no pressure.

2. When I snuggle his head and hold him close, his hair is all soft and downy against my cheek. I'm going to be so sad if he loses his baby hair!!

And the number one thing I love about Jack is...

1. I love that I get to be his mommy.

Quiet Afternoon to Join the 21st Century

Sunday afternoon at the Sewall house.

Jack is asleep in his swing, Lyle is reading, and Anne is trying to navigate her way into the 21st century world of "blogging." I feel so behind on things. I've just been looking at Stephanie's and Tiffany's blogs, and they're so snazzy looking. Clearly they have mastered the art of personalizing their "blog space." I'm not that far yet, so I'll just stick with the standard boring layouts, templates, and colors. Man, I need to get with it, I guess.

I feel like I should introduce the blog. If you're reading, either you're very bored and found your way here and you don't know us - which is completely creepy, I might add - or more likely you are already acquainted with the Sewall family. You maybe even be related to us!

If the latter is the case then it means you already know me, Lyle, and our beautiful new son, Jack. Jack was born on February 26, 2009, at 1:05 in the morning. He weighed in at 9 lbs, 5 oz and measured somewhere between 20 and 21 1/2 inches. (The hospital said 20, but if you'd seen him that day, you'd know he was longer than that. The doctor said four days later he was 21 and a half. Hence the confusion.)

This is just a post to kick things off as I start the chronicles of our Adventures with Jack. And get up to speed on modern technology in the mean time.

Maybe tomorrow I will be bold and join the revolution of social networkers in the strange and mysterious world known as "Facebook."