Then and Now

Ben has only been around for 10 weeks already now...  and its all been quite the life changing event.  When you think about it, ten weeks is nothing... its just a blink in time.  Usually not much happens in people's lives in that short of a period of time.  But in our past 10 weeks, there really has been a lot of change.

Just take a look at this picture below which was taken just a week or so before Ben was born.  Jill is comparing her belly with our friend Sam's.  

No, Sam is not pregnant too...  and no, his belly isn't normally that size...  He just has this amazing talent of being able to push his belly out to make himself look pregnant.   Sam has practiced this feat for many years and I'd say that he's perfected it.   That's Ben in there just hanging out in there (in Jill's belly, that is...)   

Only a week or so later we got a call from the hospital scheduling Jill as to when she's going to have a baby.  That's not a call anyone gets very often...  But  Ben really didn't seem to have any plans on coming out on his own, so we had to schedule 'the induction.'  Here's a picture of our family of two just hours before Ben made his arrival.

 

And then, just a short time later....  we were three.

So Jill & I have been thinking about how much has changed our lives, but then just think about how much has changed with Ben!  In just ten short weeks, Ben went from looking like this...

To this fine looking young man-baby sticking his tongue out at the camera!!

His weight has increased by almost 40% (almost 5 pounds).  He's grown 3 inches.  He's more than quadrupled the amount of food that he eats.  He's gone through two clothes and diaper sizes.  He smiles all the time now and can now pretty much hold his head up on his own.   Now that's a lot of change in just 10 weeks!

Change can be tough at times, but its all tremendously worth it.