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Halloween!

Drew & Leah — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 13:50:18 +0000

Emery's first halloween this past week, and we could tell that he wanted to be a poet. But his beret didn't arrive in the mail until the afternoon of the 31st, so for the first half of the day he was a pumpkin!

The day before halloween, we went to NYC for a photo shoot.

Click here to see photos from NYC, Halloween and Emery's first trip to an apple orchard!

Wisconsin!

Drew & Leah — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:38:10 +0000

The four of us (including Simon, remember him?) trekked over to Wisconsin last week to introduce Emery to Leah's grandmother and aunts, uncles, cousins, friends, grocers, servers, baristas, gas station attendants and more. We had a really great time catching up with family, and we even saw a few snow flurries!

Emery enjoyed spending time with his Grandma and Grandpa Martz, and meeting Great Grandma for the first time. The drive was rainy both ways, but it was sunny for most of our time there. Even though it was cold.

Emery forgot to bring his winter hat, so we had to get him one at Target. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your tastes), the only hat they had was this pointy-eared thing with puff balls on the ears. Leah thought it was cute, but I had some reservations. What do you think?

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE WISCONSIN PHOTOS!

Or if you have time, scroll down to see a couple of videos.

Two Short Videos

Drew & Leah — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:31:00 +0000

This is Emery just being Emery:

This is Emery with his Great Grandma Ackatz:

Guitaring

Drew & Leah — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 15:14:47 +0000

Emery's Grandpa and Mimi came to visit from Ruston, LA this weekend! Leah and I really enjoyed seeing them, and Emery seemed really happy to meet them in person after so many video chats. We thought it would be a slow relaxing weekend, but they came along for a couple of photo jobs and it ended up being pretty busy.

On Saturday, we had a shoot at the beach in Avalon, NJ. So emery got to hang out with Grandpa and Mimi at the beach while Leah and I photographed a family with four beautiful children.

First Attempts To Talk

Drew & Leah — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 10:15:34 +0000

Ohio Video

Drew & Leah — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:13:57 +0000

First Road Trip

Drew & Leah — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:50:15 +0000

my lovely sisLeah and I have been missing my sister and her hubby, Jason, and their children Raen, Nicholas and Paxten for a long time now. They only live six hours away, but it's been hard for us to get out there enough. So last weekend we packed up the car, strapped Emery into his carseat, and started down the PA turnpike.

Leah in the rental car, with our dead car next to her. Unfortunately, about two hours into our drive our car broke! Transmission. We limped it to a repair shop (thank you GPS!) that just happened to be owned by two guys who had retired from working at the Ford plant down the road. They did a free diagnosis for us and said we'd be looking at a couple thousand dollars for all the work that would be needed to get the car running safely again.

So we rented a car, left our car with them and headed to Ohio!

my lovely nearphew. the smartest, funniest, most fun-to-be-ound sixth grader in the worldWe had a great weekend with my sister and family. Jason and Genelle's children are so sweet and smart and happy. They were super excited to meet their cousin, Emery, and we all had a great time together. It's really nice that Emery will have three cousins who live so close (relatively speaking)! Hopefully they will have many fun weekends together over the years.

When we got back, our friends who live in NJ let us borrow their van (thank you Koerwers!) until we could get a car. Which we did pretty quickly. We had already researched which car we'd want, so we knew that we were looking for a 2009 Toyota Matrix with low miles.

it's called nautical blueHere's a photo of what our car looks like when it's driving and being photographed by a professional photographer. It looks good, but this photo makes it sparkle a bit more than what you'd see in real life. Anyway, it's an All Wheel Drive model, which is nice.

Also, Emery has learned to smile! It's pretty darn cute. Click the picture below to see more photos from our Ohio trip!

click to see more photos!

First Day At The Beach

Drew & Leah — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:23:16 +0000

Emery has already come on a couple of photo shoots with us. But only when our clients know we've recently had a baby and insist that we bring him along. Here are some pictures of Emery at our most recent photo shoot in Stone Harbor.

We don't have time to write or post more because we're on our way to see my awesome sister and her awesome family in Ohio!!

Click here to see all the photos from the beach.

Heads Up

Drew & Leah — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 02:54:44 +0000

Today was Emery's one month doctor's appointment (even though he's four days away from a month old). He weighs over eleven pounds now! And he's 23 and a quarter inches long. Which means he's eating well and growing well, which means he's one happy baby. Which means we're two happy parents so far.

And for a couple of weeks now, he's been doing a crazy thing that he's not supposed to do just yet. He's holding up his head with some bit of control at times. Lying on his belly, he's been able to lift his head and turn it since he was a week old. But at about two weeks, he started holding his head up when he was upright.

He can't do it for long, but he's getting pretty good at it. One day he'll probably be blogging about some major school or career accomplishment. But for now, he's keeping things simple. He's just holding up his head on his own. And we're pretty proud of him for that. Here's some video.

Weight Up

Drew & Leah — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:22:20 +0000

not a breast pumpAt first, we noticed he wasn't pooping enough. Then we noticed that after two weeks, he hadn't gotten back up to his birth weight yet. That's when we realized that Emery wasn't getting enough food. A lactation consultant at the Breat Feeding Resource center helped us out a lot. She said that eventually, Emery's mouth will be strong enough to get all that he needs, but for now we will have to supplement. So we follow up each breastfeeding session with either pumped milk, formula, or some combination of the two.

emery asleep in his recliner. After only two days of doing this, Emery was back up to his birth weight of 9 pounds 13 ounces. And only five days after that, he was up to 10 pounds 7 ounces! Go Emery! Our next doctor appointment is on Tuesday, so we'll see how much he weighs then.

Meanwhile, we are doing what we always do. Going on a few photo shoots, staring at the baby, and just hanging out. I'm posting a video so that you know just what it's like to stare at Emery. He makes the strangest faces sometimes! This video doesn't show the sheer variety of crazy faces in his repertoire, but he's doing some weird thing with sticking his tongue out.

Also, there's some bathing footage in here. Can't wait to pull this out when he's older. And just so you know, there's about one minute of staring and about two minutes of bathing. This doesn't go on forever:-)