6 Weeks: Continuing Changes

When Mary was still only about 3 months pregnant we went for an appointment at the obstetrician and happened to bump into our upstairs neighbors in the waiting room... they too were having a baby. Their baby was due about a month after ours.

It's been fun to compare notes with them, talk about building logistics, etc. We had them over for dinner when both women were in the pregnancy phase. Now both kids have been born, and we were invited up for dinner at their place last night, so August had his first-ever dinner party.

Our neighbors' baby, a beautiful little girl named Neve, with thick dark hair, is 4 weeks younger than August, so she's two weeks old. She was smaller than August - weighs less now than August ever has since he was born. But seeing her brought-back memories of Augusts' first two weeks, and gave us an object reminder of how much he's changed and grown in his six weeks.

Note the difference between a picture at about two weeks, and another, from today:




Maybe these changes seem more exaggerated to us, due to our level of attention - we're definitely tuned in to this kid. But trust me, he has developed!

His appearance isn't all that's changed. We get daily smiling sessions, and sometimes (we're pretty sure!) he tries to imitate the mouth movements he sees when we talk to him. It looks/sounds likes he's experimenting with his voice, sort an opening salvo on speech development.

Fun times!