Well Marshall had a busy week - he had his first non-relative visitors this week. The first were the Strange Family. Marshall had his first true test of how good he would be with other people and he was awesome. He especially liked being held by Curtis, who put him right to sleep! :-)
We also visited Aunt Heather's family since Marshall's cousin Katherine threw her Mommy a Baby Shower. Marshall's Baby girl cousin should be born sometime in the last weeks of December.
On Friday, Marshall's future Aggie classmate, Abby, came over for a visit. Abby is 3 months old and is so very alert. You can just see her happy disposition in her eyes and how she just soaks up her surroundings like a sponge.
Mr. Marshall has finally moved up and out of the preemie clothes into newborn and has graduated to Pamper's Size 1 (instead of the newborn diapers!). By the end of the week he weighed in at 7 lbs 13 oz. He also had his first walk outside the house and really enjoyed cruising the neighborhood in his baby carriage! He is starting to become more and more alert throughout the day. He still has a very firm schedule - he is so alert and happy from 10:00am to 2:00pm, then he takes his afternoon nap, and wakes up and is cranky in time for Daddy to get home in the evening. One night he actually slept in his crib for 3 hours and on Friday night he slept for 5 hours straight!
He has such a laid back personality. It is so exciting because he has even begun to smile and "talk to Mommy." Mostly he likes to make the "Ahhh" sound and gurgle "gggghhh." He is so cute. When he is mad, he gets really mad (generally because Mommy is Changing his diaper or clothes), but he calms down when he is rocked, sung to, or just put in his vibrating chair.
As each week goes by, Boris becomes more and more protective of "his human." Boris will randomly come over to Marshall throughout the day and plant a big wet kiss on him and then sit by Marshall like he is protecting him. Who knew that our shy doggie would open up to the newest member of the "pack" so readily?!
Here are some photos highlights from this week. Each photo is a clickable link to a larger image:
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