Pictures of Courtland

Well, everyone has been asking for more photos of Courtland, so here are lots of photos and a couple short video clips. He is such a little cutie! He is the only one of our boys who has a cute little cleft in his chin (like his Daddy). His hair is a light brown color, and his eyes are dark blue. He has a good little personality – he seems to be trying to sleep pretty well the last day or so, and since visiting a lactation specialist this afternoon I think we’ve got this whole nursing thing down, so things should be getting a little easier from here on out. He likes his baby swing and his pacifier, and since he was giving me a hard time with nursing the last couple days we found out that he takes a bottle really well too. When he was born Courtland had lots of red blotchy spots on his face and we thought that maybe he had really sensitive skin, but it has mostly cleared up since then.

His brothers all seem to like him – we haven’t had any jealousy issues yet (cross your fingers that things will continue to go well in that department), and every once in a while even little Isaac will come over and give him and kiss or hug without us even asking him to (we often ask him to give us kisses and hugs). I thought that the boys would do well with the new baby, but was a little concerned about how Isaac would react, especially since he seems to be more attached to Michael and I than the older boys were at his age, and because with moving to Utah we aren’t really around anyone else with kids Isaac’s age or younger so he hasn’t been around little babies at all, but he has done very well with Courtland so far.

Well, here are lots of fun pictures of this cute little guy:

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Boys in the Bath

I just had to include this cute shot of all four boys in the bathtub the other day. (Do you think we'll be able to fit another little boy in that tub in a few months? I don't know . . . it'd be a pretty tight squeeze).

Photobook

So, I realized that I wrote a post about the photobook I made with pictures of the boys about a week ago, but I forgot about it when all the family came into town, so here it is:

I just had to thank Mel and Debbie for letting me know about that free photo book promotion that the Snapfish website was putting on last week. I decided to make a ‘Brothers’ book with just pictures that had at least 2 of my boys in them (this helped me narrow the pictures down a little bit, because originally I was thinking of just doing a book with all my favorite family photos, but then I was finding lots of photos with Michael and I and the boys and their grandparents and other relatives and I was having a hard time just picking the right number of photos to fit into a 20 page book). So, I ordered the book a few days ago and am looking forward to receiving it in the mail. I was really pleased with how it turned out. (The only thing that I was disappointed with was the picture on the cover of the book – I wanted it to be a picture that filled the entire cover, but the one I had said it wasn’t high enough resolution for that, and I just didn’t want to take all the time to re-scan and clean up the photo from the original print again, so I decided on a layout for the cover with a smaller photo, but I still think it’ll look nice). Here are all the pages:

Photo Shoot

I had my friend, Amy Rahm, do a photo shoot of the boys in Milwaukee before we left, and we got the CD of her pictures in the mail the other day. I thought they turned out very cute, especially considering how difficult it is to get 4 little boys age 4 and younger to all look at the camera (let alone smile) all at the same time, and considering the fact that Isaac couldn’t sit up on his own yet. Here are my favorites. Amy, thank you for taking on this challenge for us, the pictures turned out great! Someday I think I’ll make a photo book of just pictures of the boys together and call it “Brothers.” I’m sure some of these shots will make it into that book someday.