Due Date

This is the day.  Simon Emory Basque was due to join the world on July 3rd. Instead he came seventeen days ago. What a great seventeen days it has been. 

Tummy Time - July 2nd

The doctor told us the more tummy time the better and luckily Simon seems to enjoy it almost as much as we do. He just scoots around like a little worm when we help him out by giving him something solid to push off of. Already he is noticeably stronger than the first time we did tummy time a little under a week ago. This boy is growing so fast!

Pictures after the jump.

Tummy Time Training

Within a week of his escape from solitary confinement, Simon B was back in the gym working to build up his strength.  See a video montage of this intense first workout after the jump!

Cradle Stretch

A couple of videos of Simon really exploring the studio space in his cradle.  Nothing too exciting here, but give him a break - the kid's barely a week old!

Hunger Games

Simon has some definite cues that he uses to tell us when he's starting to get hungry.  Lots of sticking out his tongue, chewing on his fingers or wiping his hands on his face.  And usually that enough for us to respond promptly and get him some food.  But sometimes we don't do that in time and his patience starts wearing thin...

Morla the Ancient One

One thing that Simon does that never fails to make Emily and I laugh is his impression of Morla the Ancient One, the giant tortoise from The Neverending Story.  After he's done nursing he does this big stretch and throws his head back and makes this ridiculous wrinkly face.  I can't wait to show him this video when he's old enough to be embarrassed by it. :)

After the jump see two videos: one with Simon and one from the movie.  Can you tell which is which?

Sleeping through dinner

Following up on my previous post, here's a quick video to show how good Simon is when we go out to eat... here he's sleeping happily despite the noise and music in the crowded Cafe El Tapatio earlier tonight.