Touchdown!!!

This is one of John's favorite sleeping positions... we think he's going to be a big sports fan. 

Father & Son

John loves his daddy & Michael just can't get enough of his little boy. 

Happy Birthday!!!

This was taken 20 March, John's 1-month birthday and his actual due date! We love his big, expressive eyes. 

The thinker.

He ALWAYS has his hand by his face (hence the claw-marks which are evidence of one of his favorite past-times... grabbing chunks of his skin with his razor-like talons). Can't wait for his coordination to develop. 

Still sleeping...

Daddy's pride & joy! 

LIttle peanut

He's just so tiny! And strong... you couldn't pry those legs out out of their frog position with a crowbar. 

Our little monkey

He has the most expressive face (during the hour or so that he's actually awake during the day). 

What time is it???

Just 5 more minutes, mom. 

zzzzz...

Don't bother me... I'm sleeping. 

Anxious parents

OK, I figured I'd put one on here of little John is the Special Care Nursery... it wasn't fun while he was in there, but now that he's out we figure it won't freak everyone out too much. Luckily he only had that "oxygen helmet" on during the first day. When I went in around 4 a.m. the next morning, they had taken it off a few hourse before. Phew! 

Holding daddy's hand

This is Michael's favorite picture... he's got it as the desktop for every one of his computers & it also is the picture that comes up on his phone when I call him. Is he a proud pappa, or what! 

Best friends

This is Joey, one of John's new friends. Since they are the same size, they get along great. 

Tall, dark & handsome

This shows how much beautiful, dark hair he has. Sean is so jealous... Peyton is 2 and still hardly has any hair. :) 

Is he really ours?!!

We are ecstatic when the pediatrician finally gives us the OK to take him home. Mom wanted pictures without us in them so they could really see John up close... but I realized that we don't really have any because we're never NOT holding him. He's too precious to put down. :) Michael's new favorite past-time is curling up to sleep with his son. Apparently I've been replaced. :) 

Getting checked up

Because he was so early there were a few worries... one of which was fluid in the lungs and a decreased capacity to breathe on his own. We spent 2 worry-filled days with him in the Special Care Nursery (and mom going crazy without him in her room!) but we would sit with him for hours. He was so brave and didn't cry at all when they hooked him up to the I.V. 

Big man on campus

And here is the famous peanut himself. Only now we finally have a name. May I present to you-- John Daniel Weist. (John Daniel Weist is an ancestor of Michael's who was chosen personally by General George Washington to keep the fires going at Valley Forge as a diversionary tactic so the troops could cross the river undetected.) Our peanut is starting off life with quite a legacy (on both sides of the family). 

Surprise!!!

...and apparently, it is!!! Less than a week after Valentine's, we get a President's Day surprise. Baby peanut is born 4 weeks early & my belly has turned into a bowl of jelly about 1/4 the size it was last week! 

Happy Valentine's Day

Making sugar cookies on Valentine's Day... Michael was a big help... eating the dough. I feel like my belly is bursting... 

The new looks!

Michael decided on the Starsky & Hutch look, while I went a little red and cut bangs for the first time since 6th grade. 

Erin & I at my Dad's b-day party. Just to show that I had a goatee 'cause it is going to be gone before the little guy comes 'cause babies don't like prickly facial hair.