8 weeks old

Here are a few recent pictures. Evelyn is making lots of cute sounds lately. Unfortunately babies aren't good about being cute on demand so this video has some dead time punctuated by cute faces and noises, so be patient.

Nathaniel has started taking a beginners sign language course, and he's going with Shawn (our deaf friend).

6 weeks old

So I came home Thursday night from a church meeting and found Nathaniel had "bagged" Evelyn (see pictures). Too bad I didn't think of that before. It's no fair, she quiets down when he comes home. I think she likes his voice. Nathaniel is so cute with her, he's always making sarcastic remarks and narrates for her, especially when changing her diaper. It makes me laugh, you can imagine the kind of things he says then. He's good at making her and I comfortable, like when I'm nursing her I will have been in an awkward position for half and hour and he comes in and makes me comfortable (5 minutes later she starts crying, so it doesn't last long, but it's nice). I swear I could be sleeping on 16 penny nails and he could get me to fall sound asleep.

Studying with dad

Here's a picture story. Evelyn is becoming much more expressive.

5 weeks old

Here are the latest pictures. We also have a few pictures of Evelyn in the bath, and I think they're adorable but Stacey doesn't think people want to see her naked. If it doesn't bother you here are the bath pictures.

Life has been good. Stacey isn't hurting any more, and she can even pump milk so I can feed Evelyn from time to time. That's nice because Stacey has been able to visit with some friends and get away. Today she is the one who stayed after sacrament meeting, and I went home with the boss. I blessed her in church today, it was wonderful. One thing I wasn't expecting to say at all was that Evelyn has been blessed with a sweet spirit, and she will be very compassionate and have great charity.

This is an exercise video that Stacey calls "tummy time". Basically it's the baby's chance to struggle to pick up their head and eventually crawl. It's cute because Evelyn also has the hiccups, which happens a lot.