Changing So Fast

We cannot believe how fast Elliot is growing and changing from the tiny little peanut that we brought home from the hospital. Here he is at 3 days old:

Our Newborn (still Baby TBD) In the Hospital:



Starting to show some personality at 3 weeks old:

Look, Mom. No Hands!

At 4-1/2 weeks I decided to take a photo of Elliot on top of the newborn outfit that he wore home from the hospital. The idea was to show how he had grown out of this outfit that had seemed so huge on him when we came home.

Then Max crashed our photo shoot, dwarfing Elliot the "big boy."

At this stage Elliot fell in love with the ceiling fan in our bedroom,

beginning to coo and smile at it:

He also started wearing these very special socks. My Oma, who passed away this August, made beautiful knit socks for everyone in the family year after year. She didn't have the opportunity to make them for our newest member of the family, Elliot, but she left behind a basket of wool and works in progress. My mom, not wanting the wool to go to waste, brought it home from Germany and gave it to her friend Maude, another talented knitter. Maude recently surprised us with these socks for Elliot made from Oma wool. (I have a pair that matches from several years back.)

At 6-1/2 weeks Elliot is displaying a wide range of emotions and expressions:

We love his SMILES!

And he is even becoming interested in toys: