Smiles and Coos

As Ben rapidly approaches the 3 month mark, he is beginning to develop quite the little personality! I love that he now recognizes Nick and I, and most always rewards us with a big smile. He is also starting to find his voice with loud yells and little coos... it is so precious. I think I like every baby stage more than the last!!

Memorial Day Weekend

I hope you all had a wonderful three day weekend! We were very busy this weekend doing projects around the house. It wasn't just all work and no play- we also spent some good times with friends! Here's a little picture recap of our weekend...

The weather was beautiful, so Friday evening Nick and I took full advantage of it and took Ben and Gunther on a walk. Ben is getting so big!! Sitting up in the stroller like such a big boy:)

Saturday was HOT. Nick was in his glory though- he spent $60 bucks on a Wagoner power spray painter and stained our deck and fence... ALL in one day! He worked for about 11 hours in the heat- by the time he was finished he had a few good spots of sunburn and a serious case of dehydration, but the fence and deck look great!

I also finally got my potters planted- THANKS MOM! Mom came down and helped me out. She did the two you see above for the front and a couple in the backof the house with red geraniums. They are beautiful!

Whoops... I posted this sideways and I don't have time to fix it right now! We visited the Watts family on Sunday and Ben and Owen spent a little quality time hanging out in the car seat:) Thanks Mike and Erin for having us- we always enjoy it!

To round out the weekend, Al and D came down with the girls on Monday afternoon. We had a great time just hanging out and catching up! Anna loves her little cousin Ben!

A new Best Friend!!

We are so excited for our friends Erin and Mike- on Saturday May 22nd they welcomed their son Owen into the world! He is absolutely just as precious as you could ever imagine. We were lucky enough to go visit them on Sunday evening at the hospital and I'm happy to report that everyone is healthy and happy! They are home from the hospital now, so hopefully we will get a chance to go visit again soon.

It really is great to have friends that are having kids at the same time we are. It's just easier when you are at the same stages in life together! Not only is it great for us, but we are especially excited for Ben and Owen- they will be such great friends! Here is their first picture together... Ben is zonked and Owen is just peeking out of his swaddle. How cute are they?

Like Father, Like Son

9 week Update

Ben had his 9 week Dr.'s appointment this last Thursday (technically I guess it was his 2 month visit). If you can believe this, he weighs a whopping 13 lbs 14 oz!! Yes, that's right. Our 2 month old little boy weighs practically 14 lbs! I guess he has those Gutwein male genes in him after all:)

He got his shots this time around, but handled them very well. We are enjoying a little bit longer stretches of sleep at night- usually from about 10:00 until 3:00 now. I know- I hardly know what to do with myself getting 5 hours of sleep at a time!! It's all going by so quickly. I can't really believe that I only have 3 weeks of maternity leave left!!

Happy 26th Nick!

This past Sunday Nick turned the big 2-6! We had a great weekend of celebration. Saturday night Nick and I were able to go out on our first alone date since Ben was born. This was a very big deal for us, and very hard for me to leave the little guy, but once we were out the door I felt free as a bird and we had a great time! We went to Perkinsville, IN, of all places, and ate at Bonge's Tavern. If you haven't had the chance to eat at this place, let me tell you, you have to go! The atmosphere is what you would expect from a hole in the wall place, but the food is the opposite. Nick had Prime Rib Cap, which is the best part of the RibEye steak trimmed out. I had some sort of delicious white fish, of which the name is escaping me right now:) All in all it was a great date!

Sunday we took Ben to church for the first time, also a pretty big deal. He did great! Then in the afternoon our friends Mike and Erin came over to help us celebrate and eat ice cream cake- we always have a good time hanging out with them! Pretty soon (hopefully sooner rather than later, right Erin?) they will have a little boy to play with Ben!!



In other recent Vollmer news, we had a visit from our friend Meg not too long ago. She moved away to MA about 2 years ago and I miss her so much! Meg and her precious little boy Brodyn stayed and visited Ben and I for an entire day, and I don't think the two of us stopped flapping:) Thanks for visiting Meg!




While I'm at it blogging, I thought I'd give a Ben update. He is now almost 9 weeks old (we go to the dr. tomorrow), and guess what he found this week? Yep, that dear old thumb. This cracks me up... but I don't want Ben to be a thumb sucker and have to wear one of the mouth things like his Aunt Al did when she was a little girl! (Sorry Al!) So I've been trying to replace it with his pacifier whenever I catch him. Just this morning I heard him stirring on the monitor, so I went to go get him up from his nap, and what did I find??? See below...

Yep, just chomping and chewing away on that thumb!! After I pulled it out of his mouth, this is the look that I get...

"Really Mom, why did you have to take that away? I was enjoying that!!"

Ben's "Newborn" pictures

This last week we had a photographer come to the house and take pictures of Ben. They are technically his newborn pictures, although he is not really a newborn anymore! They turned out absolutely precious, so I thought I would share. The gallery of pictures is available on the photographer's website, so just follow the instructions below! They will only be there until next Monday...

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