First Smiles

June 5 - Little Bronson is starting to SMILE!  More and more!  It is so cute!  Of course, they seem to be so hard to capture those little smiles on camera but here are a few that I did catch... 

 June 11 - A few more smiles... 

 

 

 

The Greatest Sound in the World!

I'm so far behind on blogging!!!  Here is something current...

A few days before he turned 4 weeks, (May 22), I was feeding Bronson in the morning and he looked up at me and gave me the biggest REAL smile!  I loved it!  And, just to be sure that it wasn't a fluke thing, a few seconds later, he gave me another big one.  It was just about the sweetest thing ever!  I was in love and spent the next few days doing everything I could to get him to do it again.  He would occasionally, but those smiles were hard to get out of him!  He was a little stingy at first.  There is just something about those sweet little newborn smiles that melts my heart.  I love them.  Bronson's cute little nose wrinkles up and he has this big wide smile that fills his whole face and his eyes get so happy, too.  And if he smiles big enough, he has a couple little dimples. 

At 5 weeks, we went on a little overnight trip to celebrate the end of school.  We were at the hotel eating breakfast (June 2) and Daddy was holding Bronson and started using the binky to tickle his mouth.  He was doing the BIGGEST grins!  Of course, I didn't have my camera with me!  But, after that, he seemed to be the happiest baby around and started giving his smiles much more often.  Most of us had to work for them, but it seemed like all daddy had to do was talk to him and say "Bron-son" in a little sing-song voice, and he would crack the biggest smiles for him.  It was adorable! 

Since then, Bronson smiles all the time.  He is the happiest baby and he really only cries right when he wakes up and is hungry and sometimes if he gets a little too tired before he goes to sleep.  But, last night (June 25), we heard something new and wonderful from little Bronson.  We had gone to dinner with my family in Brigham City to celebrate my mom's birthday and we were out in the parking lot loading kids in the car.  Uncle Kyle (who is almost 13) was trying to get a smile from Bronson.  My brothers always say that he is just too calm.  They love trying to get him to smile lately.  He was jumping around and pulling faces and then...

Bronson laughed! 

Not just once, but a couple of times.

It was the sweetest, happiest sound!  I love our sweet baby boy!!! 

Smiles

I swear that Avery has been smiling since she was born. She seems to always have a least a little half smile on her face. She is just so happy! She is now doing HUGE grins all the time. Of course, I haven't been able to catch any big smiles on camera. Here are a few of her sweet smiles from November.

This isn't really a smile but one of the many funny faces she can pull! She is a girl of many faces just like Rylee.

That is the closest to her big grin that I have gotten a picture of.

Teaser

In case you were wondering, Avery did NOT sleep through the night again and got up 3 times last night! I guess she was just teasing me! She has also been teasing us by starting to make a little giggle sound, but she doesn't quite get it out and stops before she really laughs. I love the stage where they laugh and giggle and am excited for it! I also have been trying and trying to catch one of her big huge smiles on camera, but she teases me with that, too! I can't ever catch it! Hopefully one of these days, I will get a good picture to share! Her smiles are oh so cute!

CHEESE!!!

Avery smiled for the first time today! At least a REAL smile. She has had all the funny little gassy smiles that newborns have, of course, but today, I'm pretty sure they were real ones, although it is kind of hard to know. Since Avery was about 2 weeks old, she has had these sweet little half smiles while she stares at you. That is pretty early for a smile, but I could swear they were real. They weren't very big smiles and were maybe just a facial expression of hers, but she did them a lot while you talked to her and were so sweet. Today though it was unmistakable that she was smiling! It was such a big grin! Of course, she smiled for Daddy first! (Forget that I spend half my sleepless nights with her and a good portion of the day feeding her....) She smiled for him this morning and then again a few times tonight and I finally got one out of her late last night before bed! It is so cute! I can't wait to get a picture of it to share! Those sweet smiles make all the late nights and work well worth it!!!