One month old, meeting some buddies and the first bath

I can't believe the little dude is a month old! He's such a sweetie pie and is a really good baby so far. He's eating up a storm and usually takes about 6 oz every 3 hours. He's also a pretty good sleeper and wakes up twice a night usually about every 3-3.5 hours (last night we had a 4.5 hour stretch!). So far so good with going back to sleep after he eats...we're keeping our fingers crossed! He's mostly in newborn clothes still, but is starting to fit nicely in to his 3 month stuff. His favorite things to do at this ripe age are to lay on his play mat and wave his hands in hopes of hitting a toy and last night Tyler was walking around him and he kept following Tyler with his eyes, so I'm thinking he's starting to notice who the kid is that makes all the noise around this place! He tolerates tummy time for about 5 minutes or so then lets us know he's had enough. He has a hemangioma just like his brother did except Zac's is right above his collar bone. It isn't growing as fast as Tyler's, so we'll just wait and see how it grows and if we need to get it taken care of. Other than that, the little guy is just going with the flow of life in this house and is adjusting very well! This weekend he's getting baptized so we have lots of fun and visitors ahead!









This is Tyler's doing...



Zac had his first bath the other day and it was long overdue to say the least. I think Tyler had 5 baths to Zac's one in his first month of life. Baths are overrated anyway...he's squeaky clean now so I guess that's all that matters! :) He's already practicing his karate moves.









I've been meaning to post pictures for weeks now of Zac meeting his new buddies, but I just haven't had a chance. So, these pics are when the boys were all around 1 or 2 weeks and they are all one month old this week! Nash (Amy and Ryan's dude) was born on March 2nd and Julian (Shannon and Raf's dude) was born on March 4th. Zac also has another little buddy, Graham (Brett and Cecily's dude), who lives in CA and was born on March 6th. Can't wait until they can really start playing together!

Meeting Nash and chillin together...dreaming of off roading and mountain biking with their Dads!





Meeting Julian...Shannon and I have been friends since Kindergarten it's so cool to see our little guys together! They weren't crying they were just talking to each other :)

Hakuna Matata

This week brought a broken fridge, buying a new fridge with 2 kids in Lowe's until 10at night, a car that wouldn't start (and was thankfully fixed) and a new fridge that won't stop running so we'll be waiting for the repair man to come tomorrow for our 4 day old fridge. Thankfully Tyler helps us remember there's lots to be happy about like a bubble blaster and singing favorite songs...there's no worries around here. I couldn't decide which videos or pictures to put up so they're all being posted :)












And he loves helping with his brother. We're so thankful he's doing so well with Zac...things could be much worse around here. We'll take smothering baby brother with hugs, kisses and I love you's any day :)

Photo shoot

We've been busy...busy playing outside in the wonderful weather. I've barely touched the computer and it's been awesome. With Tyler I spent most of my maternity leave watching blizzards, this time I'm soaking up every last bit of fresh warm air that Mother Nature is giving us! Lots going on here. Last night Tyler (aka Batman) went pee pee on the potty and had his first night without blankie. Blankie is hidden right now, but it's to the point where we're going to have to get rid of it in one of those red hazardous materials bins at the doctor's office. Zac is doing great and was 7lbs 11 oz at his appt. on the 13th. I'm just waiting to be 100% back on my feet so I can fully chase after my active toddler. Our refrigerator broke yesterday so that's awesome, but St. Patty's Day brought the non-Irish O'DePolo's lots of fun with some Guinness and great neighbors. It was a good weekend and I'm loving this time off :)

I'm going backwards here a little bit, but here's Zac's first photo shoot in the hospital at 2 days old. Spitting image of his big brother! More pics to come of Zac meeting his buddies Nash and Julian. Four of us had healthy baby boys all born in the same week...stay tuned.










Tyler at 3 days old. Definitely can tell their brothers!

Getting settled

So it's been almost 2 weeks since the little guy was born and I'll say that getting settled hasn't been as bad as I thought it would...although my thoughts might change when Dave goes back to work. One morning last week Dave had to go in to work and other than the house looking like a hurricane came through we managed to survive :)Part of this is due to how well Tyler has adjusted to Zac being home and part of our family. Tyler is doing so awesome and better than we could have imagined! He's really great with him and wants to hold and hug and kiss him a lot. Otherwise he doesn't really pay too much attention to him until Zac starts crying and then he'll run over and start singing to him (we hear a lot of ABC's around here) and will give him something like a blanket or a toy. Hopefully this continues! Only difference with Tyler is that he's started a new thing where he always takes his clothes off so he pretty much just runs around here in his diaper all day :)



Zac is doing really great too! He was back at his birth weight at his appt. last Friday and the doc said he's doing fantastic! He eats like a little piggy and has been treating us fairly well at night and he wakes up to eat every 2.5-3 hours and then goes back to bed. We've been peed on a number of times, but he's no where near the getting peed on episodes we had with Tyler. Now we have a few tricks up our sleeves to control it, although my jewelry box got a nice washing the other night at about 3am. Dave and I both agree that bringing home child #2 is so much less stressful and things just seem to flow this time making everything seem a little easier. We do tend to call Zac Tyler a lot, but we're getting better. :)

Our freezer has been stick piled with food thanks to our family and neighbors and we've had lots of visitors so far and lots more to come! Everyone has been so generous to us with offering help, making food or bringing gifts by for the boys. We're so grateful for such great people in our lives! Now on to the pictures of Zac meeting his family :)

Aunt Jill

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Grammy



Alex



Sydney



GG



Gram and Pop



Aunt Amy



Four generations



All the boys watching Batman



Never too young to be part of story time before bed :)



Nap time with Dad



First trip to the park! Yesterday was an open you windows and let the fresh air in kind of day...today it's chilly, but Spring is on it's way for sure!















And Tyler has been really in to taking pictures these days and of course likes to take them with our good camera instead of the small cheaper one...here's some of his recent work that I found on the camera!