First bath, Mom's Birthday and Looking Good in Stripes!

Running a little behind on getting photos up to the site. Hopefully when the new computer is here we can do this easier in the little nap breaks.

We took these photos during Joaquin's first bath. He was one week and two days old.

He did really well and unfortunately it's the photos and video that upset him. He was really very patient and a good baby up until I pressed my luck and started taking photos.

I was fine until you took a picture!






Click on the play button to see video of an upset baby bird.




After the bath. Still. Happy. Warm.
Dressed in his favorite outfit: Male Nurse!




Click on the play button to see how happy he was after the bath!


These photos are from a day earlier, too.
Joaquin was 1 week 1 day old.






From Friday, November 23rd. Mami turns 35!
And has to carry her baby to eat cake and open presents. Ha!

One week old birthday.

Hanging out in the Ergo Baby Carrier. So happy!

We had a friend come over on Saturday to help fix my broken laptop and she brought her camera along. She was able to get a few nice photos of Joaquín that I wanted to share. In fact, this is the first day we dressed him up in an outfit other than a white side-snap shirt and white sweat pants. He was looking like a male nurse the first week of his life. Heheh.

So our baby turned a week old and also lost his umbilical cord, too. What a big day for him! Awww... he's all grown up. ;-)

We are doing really well so far. The help of mom and Lisa has been tremendous and we have been spending lots of nights and days together.

Joaquín is continuing to be a champion nursing baby. He loves to eat and we ask him to Open Wide, Baby Bird! and he is really good at cooperating. He has decided he is a fan of his swing and his infant seat. We also have a swing that the infant seat snaps into making it very mobile around the house, too.

He also loves the Ergo Baby Carrier and is strapped onto my chest at least once a day to wander around and let me have the use of both arms. He even worked for three hours with Douglas one night. We really don't want him to become an engineer, but he seemed to enjoy the design work a lot.

In my Co-Sleeper in Mami and Papi's room. I love to be swaddled and no one swaddles as well as Papi does!





Look at me in Puppy Wear!






Mami and Joaquín

Catching up on photo posting!!

My laptop is still on the fritz, but I was able to pull a few of the best photos from the last few days and post them to share with everyone.

Our little Baby Bird is so adorable and we are having fun figuring him out.

Right now his days and nights are mixed up and so nights are quite hard. Luckily Grandma is here and knows how to help out at all the right moments. Including laundry and feeding me moments.

Enjoy these photos of our Baby Joaquin.

At the hospital. 2 days old. Our Anniversary!




Going Home! Wearing his Thanksgiving outfit from Grandpa and with his handmade blanket from Stephani, Stacey's mom. 2 days old.







Hanging out with Mami and getting burped. 3 days old.






Papi is attacking my feet!! 3 days old.




This is how we spend most of our days. On the bed after eating. Look who came to visit... the cats! Strangely Milo seems to know how to use a Boppy by instinct!




I love to smile when I pass gas! Look at my dimple!

I love my Grandparents!

Look who stopped by yesterday to take care of our little baby bird.







We are going home today after our last round of visits and perhaps even a shower. I am nervous about that part, actually.

So far, so good. We love getting to know our beautiful boy and are looking forward to starting our life at home with him.

Oh... and Happy Anniversary to us. It's our 2nd Wedding Anniversary today! What a special present to take our baby home on our anniversary. That beats any gift!

I hope to resolve some really awful computer issues soon, too. Right now it's very hard for me to get online because my laptop is falling apart.

Our son is here....

We are so happy and blessed to introduce

Joaquín Alonso Sutton Rivera

Born today, November 17, 2007
12:37 p.m.
7 lbs. 8 ozs.
19" inches

Much more to tell about the labor and delivery but the happy news is that he is here and he is so healthy and so adorable and we love him so much.

Hard to tell from these photos but he has dark black hair! And his Papi's nose!

Four hours old.


Look who has a dimple!

Today is our baby's Due Date!

Wow. It's almost 9pm on our due date. And neither of us are surprised we are just twiddling our thumbs waiting. Well, that's not totally true. Douglas went to work and is teaching a private lesson right now and I finally started feeling something that seems like it could be significant and a sign of things to come.

In fact, I invented a new word today. Cramptractions. I started having cramps last night in the middle of the night - enough to wake me up and make me restless. They continued during the day and I started to realize they do come and go and sometimes when they go they are totally gone. Like I understand a contraction does. So. Well. I have been having about 18 hours of Cramptractions thus far.

Yeah! Hehehe.

Enough that I went out for Starbucks and to get a manicure and ran out of steam and got a bit worried about the cramps. I wanted to be back at home. It seemed that driving around may not be a great idea.

For all I know, it could be gas. I bet I just have gas.

I took another belly photo in honor of 40 weeks and hitting our due date. I do appear to be falling over backwards, huh?

You can see the whole run of them from the pregnancy here.

My Ultimate LOLcat.

Not baby related all - unless you want to count that he is fervently kicking me while I type this - but it's clear my Ultimate LOLcat has been found.

Enjoy...




And for those new to the LOLcat world. Here are some previous Invisible ones to give you an idea of what came before.