Swimming!

One of the perks of moving into our townhouse in Portsmouth was the fact that the complex had a pool right out our back door.
We decided that we needed to start our summer off right by getting him in the pool. I practically lived in my Grandmother's pool when I was little, so I figured we can't start Trevor soon enough in the water. He has been in the pool several times in the past couple of weeks and absolutely loves it. We don't have a lot of pictures of him in the water yet, but more are to come soon!

Mother's Day

Today I celebrated my first Mother's Day, and it was such an amazing day.

The day started off with me waking up at 5:45 a.m. and to my suprise, Trevor was just starting to wake up--and it was the first time he had been up since we put him down at 11:30 the night before. That's right, he is sleeping "through" the night. I know it probably won't last, but it started my mother's day off on the right foot. At work this morning, my second grade students made me Mother's Day card and brought them up to me in my office during their morning session. The cards were so sweet!

After work, we all headed home from church and Shane had me change out of my dress clothes and told me to get dressed as if I was going to the park. While I did that, he packed up the car and we headed out. I had no idea where we were going (he told me to dress AS IF we were going to the park, so I had not clue other than to plan to be outside)....we ended up at the park where Shane suprised me with a Mother's Day picnic. He even brought Trevor's new travel swing (that will have another post all to itself) so that he could swing while Daddy and I ate our lunch. It was such a beautiful day today, I am so thankful that we were able to enjoy the outdoors and get some fresh air. Once we were finished eating, Shane gave me my first mother's day gifts.--he gave me the sweetest cards from him and Trevor as well as a new baby Precious Moment and a mother and baby necklace. After a while we headed home to hang out and relax for the rest of the afternoon.

I hope everyone else had as wonderful of a Mother's Day as I did! Happy Mother's Day!Trevor loving his new swingmommy, i don't like my big floppy hat

smiles...

Trevor has been smiling in his sleep for a while now but in the past week or so he has started to smile at us. He is also starting to find his voice and make sounds at us, but whenever he does that, he hears himself and then stops because I guess he doesn't know where the sound came from --let alone that it came from him.

Anyway, he is has been giving out some big gurgly baby smiles for about a week or so, but now he does it long enough that we have time to snap a picture of it.

Trevor's Baptism

This weekend was a big, exciting one for us. Trevor was being Baptized, so we had a lot of family and friends here to be with us for his big day. For us, Trevor being baptized was just as important as him being born, so having our family and friends all here to celebrate with us was very special.

The weekend started with Shane's parents arriving on Friday afternoon with Kansas. Once we met up with them, we headed back to our house so that they could spend a little time with Trevor and get to now their grandson for a little while. For the evening, we headed out to Sandbridge to see my parents and brother at the condo they were staying at and wait for the rest of my family to arrive from Connecticut. Saturday everyone met back up at the condo, and because the weather was so beautiful, everyone headed down to the beach. Shane and my brother even dared to get in the water to swim and do some skim boarding. Sunday morning, we started our day early and everyone headed to the church for the actual baptism. Liz, my best friend growing up and Trevor's godmother, met us there. It was so good to see her--she had flown in from Iowa just for this, and we hadn't seen her since our wedding in December 2006 so it was wonderful to reunite with her. The ceremony was beatiful--Trevor did wonderful for it all--even when Father Dan took him to hold him during the homily. He didn't make a sound--except for when he was immersed in the baptismal font to actually be baptized. Later that afternoon, everyone came over to our house to celebrate. Trevor slept through most of his party, but everyone else had a great time. Trevor woke up for a little while towards the end of the night for us to open up all of his gifts, but by the time everyone headed out, he was back to sleep--which Shane and I can't argue with, because we were exhausted too! Today both of our parent's stopped by the house so that we could say goodbye before they headed home for good. By noon, everyone was gone, so we put the baby down for a nap and passed out ourselves. We had an amazing weekend and are so blessed with such a wonderful son, loving family and caring friends. Trevor is an extremely lucky little boy to have all of these people to love him and be in his life.

(I am exhausted, so all the captions for the pictures are underneath them)

Trevor with Grandma ChapmanTrevor with Uncle ChristopherTrevor with Great-Grammy Perusse (my grandmother)my crazy husband and brother going swimming--in AprilGetting ready to be baptizedthe water was a little coldGrammy and Grampy Drisko, Great-Grammy Perusse, us and Grandma and Grandpa ChapmanMy godfather, Uncle Loren, us and Aunt Sharonus with Father Dan, the same priest who married us and baptized Shane, exactly two years before he baptized TrevorTrevor and his godparents--Chris (my brother) and Liz (my childhood best friend)Our Family
Our little angel, all tired out!

Trevor's First Easter

This Easter was filled with blessings for us. This was the first Easter that Shane and I have spent together since we have been married, and most importantly we were sharing this Easter with our adorable son.

We began our Easter by going to the Easter Vigil on Saturday night. This is a tradition that Shane and I have had since before we were even engaged and we always make sure that we go to the Vigil, even when we aren't together. Trevor was so good for the entire three hour service--and slept right through it all. I was a little worried that the loud organ music or the clapping when people were baptized would wake him, but he was completely out. After mass we stayed around church for the reception for a little while before heading home to get some rest.

The next morning, we got up a little early and headed up to NoVa to my parent's house for the day. When we arrived after we got everything unloaded from the car (I still can't get over how much stuff we need even for a day trip with the baby) we all sat down for Easter brunch. We all hung out for a while and once Trevor went down for a nap Shane and I were not far behind him. After getting some rest, we went through Trevor's Easter baskets and took some pictures of him. After that we sat down to dinner. Here are a few pictures from our day:

Rub a Dub Dub!

Trevor took a bath in the tub!

This past Friday afternoon, we gave Trevor his first bath in his bathtub. Before that, his umbilical cord hadn't fallen off, so we had to give him sponge baths, which he HATED. Now that it is gone, he was able to actually sit in the water, and he had a much better time.

Newborn Photos of the Little Guy

Yesterday our friend Dana came over to take some newborn photos of Trevor. Despite being extremely busy with wedding season about to start, she rushed through the editing process and added pictures from our shoot to her blog last night. Go to www.danaduncan.blogspot.com to see them!

Thank you so much Dana--we love the photographs and can't wait for you to capture even more amazing shots of our little guy in the future! xoxo