August 23, 2011
The Yoder cousins came through Chicago on their annual visit to Iowa. Reeve was beside himself with glee having his two older cousins around to play with all evening, and the girls were thrilled to meet their new cousin Gabriel. They played out back with trucks and bikes, and then we all took a train ride up to a great pizza restaurant.
August 21, 2011
We have friends with two boys almost the exact same ages as Reeve and Gabriel. They invited us to their neighborhood a few blocks over for a block party. There were toys, stickball, basketballs, and a bounce house. The two babies just hung out, naturally:
. . . while Reeve spent quite a bit of time in the bounce house:
. . . and then Reeve and Jacob finally had to sit down and take a breather after three solid hours of play:
August 19, 2011
We (finally) took Reeve to the dentist. they had the perfect set-up: toys, ceiling-mounted tv preloaded with videos, and a dentist who knew how to make kids happy. Reeve found a Thomas train, which immediately set a good mood, and then when the dentist told him his nose was magic, well, he couldn’t resist her charms. When she touched his nose, somehow the chair magically went down for the cleaning, and when she touched it again, it magically went back up! Reeve was impressed. That’s one magic nose indeed.
August 18, 2011
Head circumference = 37 cm
Weight = 10 lbs (!!)
Length = 21.75 inches
August 18, 2011
I love how babies get all squishy and roly-poly when they stretch and wake up from naps.
August 5, 2011
Reeve was checking out his 6 day old brother. Then he decided his trains were more interesting.
July 30, 2011
Reeve’s little brother was born this morning! Gabriel Gleeson Coleman arrived at 4:56 am on July 30th in dramatic fashion: he practically exploded into the world, since he arrived way earlier than all the doctors, med students and nurses were expecting. The aforementioned kept saying, “no you’re close but not there yet,” while mommy kept telling them, “call my OBGYN, he’s coming NOW!!!!”. Turned out mommy was right. The water broke with a loud pop, and within minutes pushing urges began. The nurse kept saying to resist it, but uh, no, that wasn’t happening, especially without an epidural (yes, we did drug-free again). Pretty soon the head was visible, which caught the sole nurse in the room extremely off-guard, so she got on the call button and yelled for a resident, but Gabriel wasn’t waiting! It took basically one and a half pushes and less than 2 minutes for him to arrive, and there was only Rob and a nurse in the room! So out he came, and while the rest of the staff made it into the room shortly after he was born, the OBGYN didn’t appear until 20-30 minutes later. Yikes!
But he was in great shape, and ended up weighing 8 lbs 1 oz, and was 21 inches long. He has dark hair, and it looks like will have Rob’s olive complexion. Everyone is fine and trying to catch up on some much-needed sleep. Gabriel is eating and sleeping really well. 🙂
July 15, 2011
Opie and Reeve are like peas in a pod. Opie is less a cat and more a very forgiving golden retriever, since he lets Reeve pull his tail, wrestle him, tackle, etc with little fuss. One day Reeve put on some mouse ears we were given, and he crawled around the floor with Opie.
And then Opie joined him for bath time.
The Manley/Coleman Family 