The Due Date Finally Arrives

Today is a pretty important day in Kaleb history, it is his expected due date. I remember back in July after we came back from the honeymoon looking up due date calculators and learning that March 31st would be the big day. Little did we know at the time that February 17th would actually be the big day. Thanks to the marvels of modern medicine I am happy to report that Kaleb is right on schedule for size and length that we expected about now. I estimate that he currently weights almost 6lbs and is about 19 inches long. Given that Jennifer was 5lbs 12oz and I was just over six pounds it seems that he may have been about the same weight at birth.

I suppose in reality today really isn't different than any other day since he was born and his expected date is kind of irrelevant. However, now we can start to use baby books again to compare his progress to other babies. Before today, it was really hard to see what sort of development we could expect from him. Yes he is six weeks old today, but he can't do all of the things a typical six week old can do. Based on what his doctor says we can expect him to track a couple weeks ahead of schedule for most developmental things.

In honor of the special day, I have created two new slideshows for your viewing pleasure. They are a bit different than the daily shows because they are from a longer period of time and include music.

Kaleb's First Three Weeks Video Slideshow
Kaleb's Second Three Weeks Video Slideshow
Kaleb: Day 40

Happy expected birthday Kaleb!!!

Keeg

Double Feature

Since getting the new MacBook I haven't completely had a chance to get into a normal flow of updating photos. So as an added bonus in this entry there are two sets of photos.
Kaleb: Day 34
Kaleb: Day 38

Things have been relatively uneventful on the home front. I have been fairly productive at work, which has been great although a bit exhausting. Tonight we gave Kaleb a bath, as you will see in the photos, and it was the best one yet. He did pee on me on the way to the bath, but luckily it only ended up on my arm. Okay he's getting fussy time to go.

Keeg

An Ounce a Day Keeps the Vegetable Oil Away

Kaleb had another follow up weight appointment at the doctor's office today and now tips the scales at 5lbs 7oz, that translates to an ounce a day. Given his amazing weight gain abilities the doctor says he can now do all breast feedings with the bottle to supplement each feeding. Not only does this mean he won't have to have the breast milk, formula and corn oil mixture. We aren't sure, but hope this will help with his gas. Jennifer is super excited because it means she won't need to do anymore pumping and I am excited because we might get to tap into the breast milk reserves in the freezer.

Now moving backwards I need to talk about the weekend. It was really a great weekend, one of the highlights being the big purchase of a brand new MacBook. Yep thats right we went crazy and picked up a new computer on Saturday. So far it has far exceeded my expectations, within minutes of turning it on I was video conferencing with my mom up in Amesbury. After a couple nights of tweaking the settings we were also able to do a video conference with Jennifer's parents. I can't say how cool it is to be able to see people hundreds of miles away.

The other big events of the weekend were Kaleb's first trip to a coffee shop, his first trip to the supermarket and a surprise visit of Nonna and sir. It was really great to get out of the house with Kaleb and to go to a coffee shop for the first time in ages. Besides that everything is going really well and we are really enjoying parenting. Our little man is such a character and is always making us laugh. He's just crazy.

Keeg

Kaleb Getting Burped

"Kaleb Getting Burped" on Google Video
Another audio focused clip of Kaleb getting burped. He makes some crazy sounds!!

Kaleb Sleeping Sounds

"Kaleb Sleeping Sounds" on Google Video
This is a short video of Kaleb making sounds while sleeping.

He keeps growing and growing and growing

Kaleb: Day 33

The big news to report is that our little boy is getting plenty fat and fast. It is amazing how his little cheeks have puffed out and he is getting meat all over his bones. I am sure he ways nearly 6 1/2 pounds at this point, we will know for sure on Monday morning. He has been downing milk like there is no tomorrow and tonight finished nearly 3 ounces compared to the 2 ounces he could barely finish last week. The sooner we get him up in weight the sooner Jennifer can switch over to just breast feeding, we don't want him to get too comfortable with the bottles. Besides his weight he has been a bit more active and stays up for over an hour in sometimes. It is still a week until his due date and I think he is going to be right on par to where he would have been if he stayed where he belonged. Its amazing that his due date is almost here, because it feels like we have known him for so damn long.

In non-baby life I am excited to get a couple days off from work, because it has just been crazy. I have been working like crazy, yet still not getting to the work I would really like to do. We are starting to grow at such a fast rate, we are having a hard time keeping up with it and progressing. It feels like we are doing more customer roll outs, but less work to make customer roll outs easier. Luckily there are more people on the team that are able to work on customer stuff which makes life a little bit easier. We'll see how things go in the coming months. The other big news is that we are going to buy our new MacBook tomorrow. The old laptop has served us well, but it is starting to frustrate us between the slow speed, lack of hard disk space and broken keyboard keys, we decided it is time to move on. I am really excited for the new computer because I will finally get to do some movie editing and will get some nicely edited movies up on google video by the end of the weekend. I'm not making any promises, but they should be much better than the past few movies. I also will be able to do some podcasting again, which I thoroughly enjoyed and maybe even some video podcasts.

We'll see!!!
Keeg

What weighs more Kaleb or ....

Now that he weighs five pounds I wanted to play a game with his weight so here it goes. Which weighs more:
Kaleb or 1 gallon of water
Kaleb or 1 gallon of gasoline
Kaleb or 7 average size oranges
Kaleb or 16 billiard balls
Kaleb or $100 dollars in quarters
Kaleb or the combined weight of the 2002 Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals


1 gallon of water equals 8.33 lbs.
1 gallon of gasoline equals 5.8 to 6.5 lbs.
7 average size oranges weigh 4.8125 pounds
16 billiard balls weigh 6 pounds
$100 dollars in quarters weighs 5.02653958 pounds
The combined weight of the 2002 Olympic gold, silver and bronze medals weigh 3.5 pounds



Hope you all did well. Sorry there aren't more, but our laptop keyboard really sucks and I can't stand typing anymore.

Keeg