5 Weeks Old

I'm trying to give an update every week, so here is Rhett's update for five weeks old. Rhett just had his first Road Trip to Portland. Unfortunately, we didn't take our camera. We had a scrapbook show there and we didn't think we would get to much sight seeing... Anyway, Rhett did really well. We had to stop every few hours so he could eat, but he mostly slept. He did seem excited to get out of his car seat when we got there though. We arrived and hour before we could unpack our van, so we walked around a grocery store because he was getting cranky. I think he was excited to be out of his car seat because he stretched as stiff as a board and stayed stretched out for as long as we walked around! Though there were times when Rhett was a little fussy, overall, he was a crowd pleaser and brought buyers into our booth! John and I got good at playing tag team juggling the booth and walking around with Rhett to give him new scenery to look at. Each day, John taught a scrapbooking class and I had to run the booth by myself. I was concerned a little since I couldn't leave the booth with Rhett, but we put him in a snuggle pack on my stomach and he slept or looked around and was the PERFECT little baby. I was a BIG fan of the snuggle pack! On the way home, Rhett did really well until about the last half hour of the trip. We were really grateful that that was the worst of it! It was really hard for me not to be able to pick him out of his car seat and console him when all he really wanted was to be held. But who could blame him when for the prior 15 hours all he did was slept or stare at the back of a car seat?! Anyway, all in all, Rhett's first road trip and scrapbook show was an overall success.
The only picture we got this past week (other than the one I took today for his five week post), was John giving Rhett a banana to suck on. Though obviously he didn't eat much of it, here is the picture of Rhett's reaction to the flavor!



Here are some pictures I took today at five weeks old. Additionally, I finally got a decent mommy son picture (since I love the daddy son picture). Anyway, enjoy!