Changes

Gavin has been changing so much lately! When he is awake he is more interactive now. He gazes at us and sometimes seems to mimic our expressions. We can touch and tickle his face and make silly sounds and he smiles. Sometimes he almost seems on the verge of laughing. His smile continues to be the most precious thing in the world.

I didn't realize just how much Gavin has changed in appearance until I was looking at his hospital picture last night. His face is so incredibly different! So much fuller and more expressive. Of course, the 3+ pounds he has put on in the almost six weeks since his birth probably has something to do with that. He hasn't been officially weighed since he was 11 days old, but we weighed him on the scale at home the other day and he is measuring somewhere around 12 to 13 pounds. He's developing the most kissable fat chubby wrists. And cheeks. And elbows. His legs continue to be fairly skinny, but he's got a lovely second chin growing. It just thrills me to bits to see how well he's growing. His next well baby checkup in on the 24th, so we'll get to see what his official gain is.

The only problem with all this weight gain is of course that he is swiftly outgrowing his clothes and his diapers! I need to order more diapers so we're ready for the next size, since I suspect we're mere weeks away from switching up, but I have been holding back since we decided to try and see if we can get enough Fuzzi Bunz off of Ebay to make them our primary diaper, and then order just a dozen prefolds to use as backup. We really, really like the Fuzzi Bunz. They are so much nicer than prefolds. Unfortunately, so far lots of other people seem to really like the FBs too, as I have been having a hard time winning auctions.

In other news, we have recently taken a huge step towards a whole new level of adulthood. In addition to having a baby, of course. That would be, you'd think, enough of a big step for us to last a whole year or more, but we had to go and do more. We're going to buy a house. A week ago we found ourselves a buyer's agent and this week I started calling mortgage lenders. This weekend we're going out looking at houses for the first time. Wish us luck!