Life is Good

Everything has been going great, and it's a lot better now that I am getting James on a schedule/routine. With the wonderful guidance from the book The Baby Sleep Solution by Suzy Giordano and Lisa Abidin, I have gotten James to eat 4 times a day and wake only once during the night. We are working towards him sleeping through the night, and he is doing so great with the training. We have really been blessed to have such an easy-going baby, and I just hope that he continues to have this personality as he gets older :) 

Ryan has been pretty busy working at the VA hospital, so we haven't gotten to see much of him in the past several weeks. I will be looking forward to July 1st when he starts his second year of residency! I can not believe that we are almost finished with his intern year. Where does the time go? The MCG/GRU Internal Medicine residency program held a dinner for the interns and graduating 3rd years, and it was a lot of fun. Here are some pictures from that night:

Ryan acting crazy while he receives his certificate from (left to right) his Associate Program Director and Director of the GRU Continuity of Care Clinics: Dr. Brown, Program Director of Internal Medicine Residency Program: Dr. Merchen, and his Associate Program Director and Director of the Residency Mentoring Program: Dr. Carson. I love this picture. 

Here we are at the dinner. Ryan says that he had food in his mouth when the guy came to take this...

One of my best friends from Ole Miss came to stay with us, and we had a blast! Ashleigh just didn't stay long enough. I think I must have put her to work too hard :) She was a huge help, and James loves his Aunt Ashleigh. 

She's a natural

She took this picture of me feeding him

We had a photo shoot, and I was once again reminded how hard it is to capture perfect pictures of a wiggling, squirming baby. I don't know how photographers do it. Thanks to Ashleigh, we were able to get some really good ones (in my opinion). 

I love this picture of them together! So cute! We need to live closer Ashleigh. Move to Augusta please. 

I also got to visit with one of my friends from St. Maarten, Katherine Ramp. She and her husband lived there while we were there, and her husband's grandparents are our next-door neighbors. Isn't it a small world? Anyway, she came for a visit, and our babies got to meet. Baby Henry is adorable, and I am so glad that we got to see them. 

They are already buddies :) 

The many faces of James

Always bright-eyed and bushy-tailed

Sooo I guess James looks like his daddy. Not sure how accurate this app is, but I tried multiple pictures of the both of us versus James. This is the highest percentage that I could get.. ha ha

We went to the Savannah River one afternoon. It was pretty hot, but it was peaceful and beautiful. 

Ryan got to do a little fishing

James is the happiest after he eats, and I can always get some really good smiles out of him. 

  

Life is hard

James selfie.. excuse the tired mommy on the left

Here are the latest weekly pictures:

He was talking to me here

Happy baby

He has the cutest little smirk that he gives me sometimes, and it always makes me laugh. I am glad that I was able to capture it here. Notice his legs getting chunkier :) 

That's all for now folks. Have a great weekend!