A night and morning in the life of Sam

Okay so it largely consists of the 3 essential baby actions: eating, sleeping and pooping.

We are saving you from the specifics of those events but some of the pre and post moments are the cutest (at least in our book)...take a look.

Pre-sleeping:


To see the post-eating and post-diaper change vignettes click on our YouTube account and look for "more on Mouttethome" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1bZ_OI1Vbc

Some new photos

Here are some new photos for the family to see.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/62275471@N00/

It is clear now that Milo is Sam's guardian. Basically any time that he is in his Bouncey Milo comes to sit near him. But Milo has no solution for the crying.


Last night we put on a onesie from our good friends the Rudys and it ended up being very fitting. He slept most of the night (so we are wearing this every night to come ;-) and he made it clear when he was ready to get up!








This photo is just to much fun...he was scrunched into his bouncey and started to pose.

A little footage of Sam

Here is a little video clip from the hospital. We want our family and friends to be able to see Sam in more than just photos.



This was recorded on Friday, February 6th, 09.

Introducing Samuel "Sam" Nathan Mouttet

To all our dear friends and family that have called, sent texts, emails and simply prayed for us...Thank you!

We are excited beyond words to introduce our joy - Samuel Mouttet.

He was born at 12:19 p.m. Thursday, February 5th, 2009 at Loudon Co. Hospital, Virginia.
* To my dear sister, Marie "Missy" Mouttet - Happy Birthday! The 5th of February is now doubly important to us ;-)

Sam was 7.5 lbs and 20 3/4 inches long at birth. He spent some time in the nursery and there are more photos on our flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62275471@N00/

Sam is healthy and is growing quickly (it is amazing to watch the daily transformation!). Kristi is doing amazingly well too. She had a safe delivery and is having as quick a recovery as we could have hoped for.


Any doubts that hide in the recesses of your mind about how will you react to the birth of your child quickly melt when you see your baby and you looks at you (right now Kristi has an overwhelming smile while she is holding him for the first time).

This will be the first of many photos and blog updates over the coming days, weeks and months. So I'll continue to post photos on our flickr account: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62275471@N00/ and on Facebook and give updates here on this blog.


So many people have said, "having a baby will change your world." That may be the understatement of a lifetime because it doesn't account for the depth it adds to your life. We have prayed and wondered about this moment for over nine months and more importantly we have prayed for years about whether this is what we should do and now with tears of joy we are certain that God has blessed us.


With love to our family and friends

Great Christmas in Pennsylvania

We had a great Christmas with Kristi's family in Pennsylvania.

We left our house on Christmas morning to spend the Christmas weekend at the Russell's house (Phil and Sue), Grandma C. and with the Moore family (Chris, Kara and Christopher). Before we celebrated with our family we celebrated our own Christmas at our house and Kristi did an incredible job of decorating every corner of our home! (photo left).




Phil & Sue's house was beautiful and gave us all a break from our work and everyday lives to simply be together and enjoy family.








You'll see a theme around Phil's apparel throughout the holiday as the t-Shirt "Grandpas Rule" seemed to make a few appearances. And based on little Christopher's reaction ... Grandpa's do rule!





Even Milo (Nate and Kristi's dog) got in on the gift giving and receiving (primarily the receiving side of things). Christopher and Milo have been great together and this was a good test for how Milo will be like with his own little boy to take care of.






Phil and Sue had a great time with Christopher!






We all got to see a beautiful sunset at the Gettysburg Battlefield and Kara, Chris and Christopher huddled together in cold night breeze to pose for one last shot before we ended our time together.

So you got the Christmas card!

Thanks for coming to the blog after receiving our Christmas card.

We thought we'd show you a couple of the photos that didn't make the cut for the card.



We wanted to include Milo in the Christmas card but we couldn't get him to sit still so most the photos looked like we were wrestling him into position.

So the most memorable photos were't included but we can still say Merry Christmas from all of our house (well, minus the cats - we didn't even consider putting Max and Millie in the photo).

Have a great Christmas!

More to time to help with Kristi's research!

Family & friends,

Please accept my gratitude and thanks, again, for helping with this study of forgiveness in marriage. The objective of this study is to develop a forgiveness scale to be used among married couples.

I and my committee members have decided to extend the study for another three weeks. This moves the closing date of the study from December 15, 2008 to January 5, 2009. We hope this provides you, and those you may know with additional time to consider brief participation in this study.

Forgiveness Study

Thank you, friends, for continuing to consider this request. Please contact me with questions or concerns.

With heartfelt gratitude,

Kristin Russell Mouttet, PhD Candidate
krismou@regent.edu