Time flies

I can't believe that Mason is almost 5 weeks (on Monday) already! Where has the time gone?!?! He's doing great! We've gotten ourselves into a bit of a routine. He still sleeps a lot but is up for about an hour in the morning, about 1.5-2 hours in the early afternoon and then consistently from 6pm-10pm each night. We've been trying to give him a bottle between 10-10:30 and then put him down and he tend to sleep for about 5-5.5 hours for us, which is nice. (the little bit of rice cereal that mysteriously found it's way into his bottle this week as well has worked! ;-) He wakes around 3ish and then has another quick bottle and then goes back down real easily and is out until 6 or so.

Here are some pictures from the past week:

He's growing like a weed - this week he started wearing 3-6 month clothing...I'm guessing he's probably close to 12 pounds at this point. He's VERY long and thin but starting to get the cute pudgy cheeks! We're real close to smiling...I'm thinking it may be this week!!

With the weather warming up we've been getting outside quite a bit. YEAH!! I got out three days this week for a nice walk (some days even two!) and then in the evenings when Ray gets home we've been going to Windham HS to walk and bike the grounds. It's been nice and Max just loves it! Here are a few photos of our adventure Thursday night!

Ray & I have been really good this week about exercising! He's been good for the past couple weeks but I finally went for a longer walk and realized how out of shape I really am so I walked every day except one this week and plan on going out this afternoon for a nice long one! In addition, my friend Pam & I are going to start swimming at least once a week at St. Josephs college. I'm actually thinking I may try and get a few additional days in during the week, drop Mason off at my Mom's for an hour and get a swim in! Last night I took Max up open swim and definitely got the itch to do some laps! (and was horrified getting into a bathing suit!) I love swimming and at one time it was a huge part of my life - I couldn't help but continually think of the incredible shape I was in during swim season in high school - I'd love to get that feeling back!

Next weekend we have a busy weekend. I'm walking a 6.6 miler for MS with my sister (part of training for the Avon walk) Saturday morning, then I will be seeing one of my long time friends, Arin at her bridal shower Saturday afternoon and then Sunday Max has his best buddy, Owen's 3rd birthday party! Busy, busy!

So that's what's new in the Arbour household!