Our neighbor's car

Anyone who lives around us in Provo, just south of campus, may have seen this great looking car parked on 5th north. The funniest part about it is if you look inside the windows it is full of balls, you know, like the ones in the ball pit at Chuck E Cheese or McDonald's Playplace. When I first saw this I thought it was funny, and then thought it might be a little disturbing too. Someone could drive this car around and easily lure innocent children to come play in the ball pit, only to be taken away. Maybe it is just owned by a young family whose kids are really hard to take places and they needed some extra persuasion to get them into the car. There could be a lot of explanations for filling 80% of your car with colorful plastic balls, what do you think?

Something extra at aerobics

For a week now I've been regular at my old stake's aerobics. I'm excited about my record so far, it is so exhausting to get used to again. Today we had a teacher I've never had before and she was really fun. A little over half way through she said, now we are going to have belly dancing instructions. So today I learned how to belly dance, and it was pretty fun. I feel like I'm better prepared for the big Miller reunion next year.

First day at Church

Calvin went to church for the first time today and he did really well. Although, he was in his 3rd outfit when we left due to diaper explosions.

Mealtime

I don't know how he manages to make such a mess just drinking milk. I can just imagine what he'll look like when I start giving him baby food.

4 weeks old

Here's Calvin in the hospital in his little striped onesie. And below he's in the same onesie 4 weeks later. He's our growing boy.

Old Habits

I used to love having a daily run, it was such a great habit. However, many many months have gone by without running even a mile. So yesterday I was out for a nice early morning walk with Cal and decided I would give jogging a little try. I knew it would be challenging, but wow, even more than I thought. My lungs felt like they would burst after half a mile. So pathetic. As rough as it is trying to get a normal body back, it sure is great to have such a cute running companion. I feel bad for him though because you can tell he just wants to get a nice nap in, but right when he looks so comfortable we'll go over one of those messed up sidewalks that causes quite a bump for him. Maybe after awhile he'll get used to it and then he'll have incredible sleeping powers.

Family resemblance

A lot of people have commented on how much Calvin looks like Brandon. We looked through Brandon's baby pictures to see which pictures he looked the most like Calvin. See the similarities?
Calvin 2008:
Brandon 1982:
Calvin 2008:
Brandon & his sisters 1982:
Calvin 2008:
Brandon 2008:

Different

I'm sure there are lots of differences between taking care of other people's newborn babies and taking care of your own. The biggest difference I've noticed is that I always look at Calvin to make sure he's breathing. I don't think I ever did that when I would watch other people's babies. I just assumed they were always breathing. Now I'm a paranoid mom. It's different.

Bald Spot

When Calvin was born he had a tiny circular scab on the crown of his head, about the size of a ladybug. It turns out the skin grows from the outside in, towards the center. Who knew? The scab is where the skin didn't quite connect. There isn't any kind of damage from that happening, the scab already fell off. The doctor just said he won't ever get hair in that spot. So our little newborn is already going for the come-over look. I think he'll pull it off well.

Correction

On Wednesday Calvin went to his first doctor's visit. Things went really well. I thought for sure he would decide that was the perfect time to eat and scream his head off when we got there, but he was mellow, I was so glad. They weighed and measured him again and he gained back a few of the ounces he lost, and he also grew an inch and a half. He is 21 1/2 inches long. Okay, we don't really think he grew an inch and a half. They said the hospital just measures them so fast it's not always very accurate. We thought he looked longer than 20 in. He has already grown out of some of the newborn clothes and I put some socks on him where the heel only went to the middle of his foot. He must have his dad's feet.
The picture is of him in his bassinet. We placed him on his back in the sunshine to help with jaundice. He tried to get out of the sun and almost rolled over!

Pictures

I added some Calvin pictures to the picture blog (link is to the right) It's just a few, but you know there's a lot more where that came from.