Week Ten in the Life of Trey

I cannot believe that I am writing about Trey's tenth week already. With every passing day I am amazed at how Trey changes both physically and socially. Every day I think that there is no way that my little boy can get any cuter but each morning as I am greeted by his smile I am proved wrong again. Trey is talking and smiling all of the time and has started really paying attention to his toys.

Playing with his rattle - he loves to attempt to put it into his mouth.

Trey's second cousins Tommy and Bobbi and his great aunt Tina came to visit this past week. Trey had a great time with them and cannot wait for them to visit again.

In his pirate outfit

Future Gator in his orange and blue

We really like our bathtime now and I just had to take a picture of him all wrapped up in his towel as he just looked so precious.

A great picture of my sleeping baby

For our ten week birthday Mom and Trey got to hang out with Courtney and Finley while the Dads went fishing for the day. Here is a picture of Trey and Finley. Can you believe that Finley is three months older than Trey - he really is a big boy, huh?

Getting a kiss from Mommy

Week Nine in the Life of Trey

This week was a big week for us as we officially turned two months old on Friday. To celebrate our two month birthday we got to go to the doctor for our check up and first immunization shots. Trey and I were both crying during his shots (I absolutely hate needles and seeing my little boy in pain) but we both survived. Trey received a rave review from the doctor for being a very healthy and happy boy. Trey is still on his way to being the next Tim Tebow with the following stats:

Weight: 13 pounds, 14 ounces (95th percentile)
Height: 25 1/4 inches (95th percentile)
Head: 16 1/4 inches (95th percentile)


This week was also a big week for us in terms of development milestones (see pictures below).

Trey has been able to hold up his head since day one and is finally holding up for long enough to go in his bumbo seat - we are going to have him sitting up in no time :o)

Trey has really started to take an interest in his toys and is starting to grab onto the various toys attached to his play mats.

A picture on our two month birthday - check out that smile and our awesome outfit which Trey's Great Grammie gave to him.

Week Eight in the Life of Trey

Trey's eighth week was a very busy week. We started off the week in Jacksonville Beach so that Jimmy could work in the office (the actual company office instead of his office at home). We took Trey into the office and everyone loved him of course. On Monday night we went to dinner at my favorite place in Jax Beach, Cruisers, and had dinner with our Jax friends Mike and Aaron and Dana and their daughter Laila.

Trey's surf outfit that he wore to Dad's office which is right on the beach so it seemed only fitting

One of Trey's future girl friends, Laila

Trey fell in love with Mike instantly and curled up on his shoulder and went to sleep

Check out the sweet whale outfit courtesy of Ellen

On Tuesday we headed through Gainesville where we picked up our friend Allison so that she could attend our girls night out. Thursday night Allison and I headed to Melting Pot and Jimmy was left at home to watch Trey on his own. The boys had a great time hanging out together and although I missed them terribly, I am not sure they missed me.

On Friday Allison, Trey and I traveled down to Bradenton to have lunch with my old college roomate (and a friend from high school) Meredith and her son William and mom Sandy. It was really great to catch up with Meredith and her son William is precious. On Friday night, Eric came to pick up Allison and I am going to miss her company this coming week.

On Saturday night my twin, Cara, came to visit Trey for the first time and she fell in love instantly with Mr. Trey's big cheeks. Cara and her husband Wade have finally tired of Miami and are moving back to Bradenton. I am so excited as that means that we will get to hang out on a regular basis and Jimmy is excited to have a new fishing buddy (so Wade if you are reading this get ready).

Trey with his "Aunt" Cara

Today not only was it Trey's eight week birthday, but it was also Grandpa Ellis' birthday. Not only did we have those birthdays to celebrate but also this Wednesday is Grandma Ellis' 60th birthday, so to celebrate we had a late lunch at Cheesecake Factory. Trey decided to use the opportunity to take a nice long nap in his carrier.

After such a busy week, it will be nice to just lay low this coming week. We are going to try to put Trey in his crib although I really do not want to as I like to be able to look next to me in the middle of the night and see that precious face. As I have said a million times already I cannot believe that my baby boy is growing so fast.

Happy Birthday Grandpa and Grandma

Can you believe I am 8 weeks old?

Girls Night Out

It is only fitting that my first night away from Trey would be with my best friends here in Tampa. Five of our group of nine have July birthdays (4 turned 30 this year) so we decided to celebrate our July birthdays at the Melting Pot. Although I missed my little boy, we had a great time and I am so lucky to have such wonderful friends!

Week Seven in the Life of Trey

I cannot believe that I am already blogging about the seventh week of Trey's life - time is going way too fast!! This week Trey continued to talk and develop his smile. Words cannot explain the feeling a mom gets when her little one smiles at her. This week we also gave Trey his first bottle and it was an experience - I think milk went everywhere but in his mouth :) This week ended with Trey's first real road trip - a trip to St. Augustine for his cousin Dylan's first birthday party. We had a great time and I was so happy that Trey got to meet his Uncle Rory, Aunt Kim and Cousin Dylan before they left for Japan for a year.

Trey and Daddy - two handsome boys!!

Trey's Party Outfit - he apparently does not like hats

Look at those cheeks!!

The boys

The birthday boy and his cake

The cake was so good that Dylan started licking it off all body parts

Where did my cake go?

At the party we got to see Jenna, Brad, Savannah and Landon Martin - here is Jenna and Savannah - Trey cannot wait for a play date

After the party we met up with my sorority sister Jess and her husband Joe for dinner at Harry's in St. Augustine - we had a great time and it was so good to see them.

Trey's first night in a hotel - the Casa Monica

On Sunday we got to spend the afternoon with Kim, Dylan and Rory - here is a picture of Trey with his Aunt and Uncle

The future trouble makers - so many adventures to be had together in the future

There is that smile - it melts Mom's heart every time!!

Inspiration

I saw this on my friend Jenna's blog and thought it was awesome and had to post it. I love to read!!

A Literary Meme, courtesy of Yes, I Must Be Crazy.
Here's how it works:
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline (or change the color of ) books you LOVE
4) Reprint this list in your blog so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

The premise of this exercise is that the National Endowment for the Arts apparently believes that the average American has only read 6 books from the list below. Like Jenna I am a book horse and I love to read anything and everything! This list and exercise have inspired me to get back to it.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (Reading now with Trey)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Week Six in the Life of Trey

This week was a busy week for us. On Monday we went to the International Mall with Tammy and Claire. On Tuesday we spent the day moving everything out of Mom and Dad's bedroom as for some crazy reason Mom decided now would be a good time to get the room painted. On Wednesday we went to the Ellenton outlet mall with Nana as we had to get Trey out of the house due to the paint fumes. On Friday we went to Nana and Papa Steve's again because Dad was in a golf tournament over the weekend so Mom and Trey spent the night with Nana and Papa Steve who are leaving for Guatemala so we wanted to make sure they got some quality Trey time. On Sunday we went to a BBQ at the neighbors and all of the Elberon Street babies got to hang out together (Trey is six weeks old, Brad is eight weeks old and Taylor is two weeks old).

The biggest news is that Trey is starting to coo and also to almost smile - they are both the most adorable things ever and Mom's heart bursts every time she hears one of those coos or sees one of those smiles. I am going to try and get a picture of the smile.

Getting ready to go to the outlet mall - Dad loves this fish outfit.

Wearing our nautical outfit from Mom and Dad Uliano - we went to eat dinner at the yacht club and figured this was the perfect outfit.

Hanging out at Nana and Papa Steve's

This is Trey on his six week birthday - check out those socks!! I cannot believe that he is six weeks old already - time is flying!!

Week Five in the Life of Trey

Trey continues to grow and I swear that each day he weighs another pound - Mom's arm muscles are getting pretty big. Each day his face gets even more lovable and those cheeks get pinched and kissed all the time.

Trey in his bouncy seat - he is not sure whether or not he likes it.

This is Trey's first real bath since his umbilical cord finally fell off - he did not like the first one as you can see from the picture but the second went a whole lot better.

This is Trey's favorite bib as it is from his Uncle Rory - we cannot wait for Trey to meet him. Mom has learned that Trey needs a bib every time he is in his car seat otherwise his outfit gets spit up all over it by the time the car ride is over.

This is Trey's rock star onesie that his second cousins Logan and Justin gave to him - love it!!

Another sleeping picture just because they are too adorable!!

One Month Doctor's Visit

Well we had our one month doctor's visit yesterday and we officially have a big baby boy. Trey's stats are:

Weight: 12 pounds, 4 ounces (off the percentile charts)
Height: 23 inches (95th percentile)
Head: 15 3/4 inches (95th percentile)

At this rate he will be taller than his Mom at age 5. The doctor said that Trey is doing great and is a very healthy boy for which Mom and Dad are very thankful.

Trey the Model

We had professional photos taken of Trey when he was first born and the photos are now available for viewing. If you want to check them out go to www.stacylarsenphotography.com and go to the client proofing page. Our password is ellisnb. We also had pictures of my pregnancy belly taken as well and that password is ellis. Stacy did an amazing job and we are going to have a hard time choosing :o)

Happy One Month Birthday Trey!

Every Mom I know has told me that time flies and I cannot believe how true that statement is as yesterday my little man turned one month old. It seems like just yesterday that I was holding him in the hospital for the first time. It is amazing how much he has grown and changed since that first day but he is still my adorable, good-natured little one.

What outfit would I wear on such an important day other than my gator onesie?

For my one month birthday Mom, Tammy and little Claire took me shopping at the Brandon mall and then we met up with Dad and Scott for dinner at the new Mexican restaurant. Mom is determined to turn me in to a shopper - good luck!!

Week Four in the Life of Trey

We cannot believe that it has been four weeks to the day since our little baby boy was born. The time is going too quickly and with each day our little boy gets bigger. This week we have been interacting a lot more with Mom and Dad and are starting to focus on our toys. Trey and I have been reading the Chronicles of Narnia and he seems to enjoy the story.

Kevin and Katie came to visit us this week

Happy Fourth of July!! Today we were thinking of our Uncle Rory and how proud we are that he is serving our country and protecting our freedoms. Trey cannot wait to meet him!!

Today also marked the day that our umbilical cord stump finally fell off and we have such a cute belly button!!

Another sleeping picture at exactly four weeks

Welcome to the World Taylor

Congratulations to our neighbors, Ken and Chris Wagner!! They welcomed their daughter, Taylor Ann Wagner on July 3, 2008 at 5:49 p.m. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 11 ounces and was 20 inches long. Trey is so excited to have a new playmate next door!!

Week Three in the Life of Trey

Trey keeps getting bigger by the day and I cannot believe how fast time flies. With each day Trey gets more active and starts making more and more faces and noises.

Here we are in our Number 1 Gator Fan outfit that John, Ashleigh and Elle gave to us. Go Gators!!

This is our favorite sleeping position.

I just cannot take enough pictures of him sleeping as he is just too cute!!

Visiting with our Aunt Wendy (well sort of)

Last Saturday we took our first trip out of the house and went to lunch at Cheesecake Factory and to the International Mall with our "Aunt" Megan O. Mom was happy to get out of the house and Mr. Trey was a very good sport (perhaps he will be a shopper like his Dad).