The Prince Bathes

We're about to take a bath tonight. It's been our strategy lately, to see if we can coax him into a nice long sleep at night. It doesn't usually happen though. He seems to like being up and awake from about 10pm till 2am.
Sage does get in plenty of sleep during the day however. As seen below, taken just this afternoon.

happy summertime!

It was a beautiful first day of summer here in Longmont. We had a great lunch of fresh, local foods. Then a nice walk around the property and plenty of relaxing.

Unrelated Video about flood irrigation

This is a fairly unrelated video showing our backyard garden and pumpkins. Flood irrigation too. Hopefully Sage will be helping out before too long.

Monday

Just relaxing around the house today. Our midwife came for a home visit and, as always, proved to be extremely helpful. Sage is eating like crazy. His birth weight was 8 lbs. 9oz. and today he weighted 9lbs. 5 oz.! That's a lot of body weight to gain for a little guy and a sign of very good health.

I spent a lot of time out in the garden this morning, working on irrigation systems.
Probably have some garden pics up here sooner or later. Maybe even a pumpkin video if you're really lucky.

Father's Day/or early next morning

It's half past midnight and Sage and I are letting mom get a little rest. Liz has been stronger and more dedicated then I could have imagined. Waking up every hour or two to feed the little Sage, I'm happy to let her sleep as much as possible.

He gets a little bigger each day it seems. I can continuously see him grasping more and more of his surroundings too. He's much more interested in mom at this point, but he lets me hang out with him enough.

Pictures were taken this morning (Sunday).

Happy Birthday

Last night we had Sage's birthday party. He loved it. We had a great meal with lots of homegrown veggies, local beer, and a cake baked by Carolyn. He was awake and aware for most of the evening, much more so then usual. He also feasted on breast milk, setting a new record for most milk consumed.



I'm going to try a video post for the first time. Hopefully it will work out well. I'd love feedback on that.

Enjoy!

Eyes Wide Open Wednesday Morning

Much Better Now

We've been home for about 24 hours now. What a relief it is to be back in our own space. Sage was instantly relieved when we walked out of the hospital. When we put him down in our bed, the bed he was born in, you could see him relaxing. He's basically been a different person since he got back here. Seems much more happy and relaxed, just the way we want him to be.

Going Home

We just got the good news that Sage's blood work came back normal and he has been declared a healthy baby boy. This is something that seemed pretty obvious to us, but it's nice to have the validation and approval from the nurses and doctors.
The hospital we stayed in was comfortable, but we are surely ready to leave and excited to be home.



We had a nice view from our room, but the one at home will be better.


More to come soon!

Here he is!

At 7:18am this morning of 6-7-08, Sage Thomas Box came into the world making his first appearance in our bedroom on Hover st. in Longmont, CO.
The birth went spectacularly. Liz had him out in just ten action packed hours. However it soon became obvious that he would need a bit of extra support as his breathing was rather fast and shallow. So we reluctantly, yet dutifully, made our way to the Foothills Community Hospital in Boulder where I am currently writing this post from.
We'll be here till at least Monday, observing a possible infection, hoping that it is only some fluid left over in his lungs that is causing his respiratory distress.
Whatever the case may be he gets better by the hour and is overall a very healthy baby.

We will be sure to keep you posted as events unfold and we get a few more photos for you. For now I will leave you with these, taken on his very first day.

Wow, It's really getting Close now.

Nobody ever said she isn't a hard worker. Just a couple days before she's due and still putting in hours at the farm.