Three Weeks Old Today

Who's the cutey pants? Oh yeah - it's Edison!
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Alison and Angela, my high school swim team friends, got to visit with Edison a couple days before we left for Connecticut.Edison is VERY relaxed. Nana is the best at working out his burps.

Edison with his great-grandmother, Bestamor (Norwegian for great-grandmother)..





Here is a four-generation photo... I'm starting to recover from the pregnancy, thank goodness!Edison with his lovey the giraffe.

Cool Edison developments: can lift head & move it from one side to the other during "tummy time" on his play mat. Has also picked up his bum while on his tummy & scooted it 12 inches - but can't pick up his big head yet while doing this, so it kind of slides across the floor like a wheelbarrow. Nana & I discovered he likes to "sing" along to choir music - he was humming a little while we had a CD on - uber precious!





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Two Weeks Old

Here Edison is at two weeks. Looking more like dad each day.





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Edison's first bath - he loved it! He will turn into a waterboy over these next few years, I am sure.

His umbilical cord has come off and as you can see, he is quite healthy and getting plenty to eat!



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Ahhhhhh. Relaxing with Aunt Kirstie after a long, hard day of sleeping.

Edison is doing really well. He is growing fast (his belly anyway), but we've packed our scale, so we don't know exactly what he weighs now. Eben & I are finishing repairs around the house & getting ready to leave Friday. We haven't been able to see people in Seattle to say goodbye due to our crazy "to do" list for our house & taking care of Edison. So - it will have to be "see you later" to those of you in Seattle - because we ARE coming back (at some point anyway).

One Week Old

At least he was born a Washington boy! Too bad we have to move him to Connecticut in two weeks!
Edison is so STRONG! Watch out world.
Edison is the cutest sleeper - and thankfully also a very sound sleeper!
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Wow - he is a total clone of dad. You should see how similar he looks to Eben when Eben was a baby - it's a little scary. I wonder what he'll take from me... Note the huge cowlick, too.





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So adorable!

We have been totally stressed out with the movers here Monday - Wednesday this week. Luckily, Nana came & helped out! I have not been able to email back people & have not really wanted to see anyone because I am SO TIRED and busy trying to get everything staged in the right spot for the movers (don't want them to pack away Edison!). Anyway, almost done with all of that.

Edison had his first doctor's appointment yesterday - is now 20" long & dropped to 7lb, 4oz (babies usually lose a little weight the first couple days). His head is 35cm. Other than that, nothing to report - the doctor said he is very healthy. He had another appointment today based on daddy's orders (I think you can guess which one) and is not too happy right now.

Look at that inquisitive face. Such a wonder - I can stare at it all day!















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Edison during "tummy time." Babies start to build up the ability to raise their big old noggins.















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Look at the little bundle with dad. He will never be so small again (referring to Edison - not dad...).
















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Edison's First Day

Edison weighed 7 lbs, 10oz when he was born.
He suffered through footprints on his birth certificate.

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Then he got some love from his daddy. Edison is so little compared to dad's hand. Hard to believe he will be as big as dad one day. But here, he is just a few hours old.
And here he is with his Nana - destined to become his favorite!
Look at the happy Phillips boys!

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With Auntie Kirstie at the hospital.
We brought Edison home on the evening of July 3rd. He passed Sky's sniff test with flying colors. I doubt the cat knew how drastically things were about to change - I know I didn't!
Here are the ladies of the family at the 4th of July BBQ. Edison is just two days old. What a blessing!

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Awwwwwww - so cute.

2 July 2008 - Welcome Baby Edison James!!!

Eben & Johanna welcomed Edison James into their family at 11:50 pm on Wednesday, July 2nd.

We chose the name Edison because it is unique without being weird, is English like our last name, and in honor of the great inventor, Thomas Edison. James is a Phillips family name, actually the son of Eben Phillips for which Eben was named. He is also on the Swampscott, MA town seal. We also liked James because Eben wanted to name our baby after a navigator – so James Cook it is (we’ll leave out the mutiny part). We also like Edison James because it represents Eben (E) and Johanna (J). No plans yet on calling him Eddy or EJ, so just Edison for now.

He was born at 38 weeks, but was definitely not small – weighing in at 7 lbs, 10 oz and measuring 19.5 inches long.

Both he & mom are doing well; so well, in fact that we left the hospital Thursday night and spent Independence Day at a family BBQ.

Thank you to all of you who have supported me during my pregnancy & who have given thoughtful gifts to Edison.

Who was right about the baby being a boy? Anyone guess the date or size?

I am thrilled he came early (due to our scheduled move date in a couple weeks) – all my homeopathic methods seemed to have worked as labor kicked in starting at 4am on the 2nd. We were at the hospital at 11am, checked and into a birthing suite by 2pm. My contractions weren’t leading to enough dilation by the late afternoon, so they put me on pitocin to speed them up & make them stronger – thus necessitating an epidural. After the epidural, it was a cake walk until I was fully dilated by 9:30pm. I started “pushing” around 10:30 and Edison was born at 11:50! (apparently in the middle of a thunder & lightening storm, appropriately enough)
We enjoyed excellent care at the hospital and all things considered, it was a pretty smooth process.

We are figuring out Edison’s cues and needs. He is so far a very sweet tempered baby, crying out only when he has a need to be met & then settling down to sleep again after that. We can only hope he’ll keep that up! Eben is a master diaper changer and has gotten the blanket swaddle down pat. I can’t even tell you how awesome it is that he is so competent at and interested in caring for the baby.

Happy Summer!
Johanna, Eben, & Edison James