What a big ol' boy!

Man, things are crazy in the development of this boy! He seems so much older and bigger now! You can definitely tell that he is 4 weeks! He's up a lot more during the day, and so aware of everything. He likes to look around at the things around him, especially the lights. It's so amazing looking into his eyes, pure love. The past few days he's been eating like every hour, I feel like I have nothing in me! It's sure showing that he's eating so much, though. I have been trying to get him to latch without the nipple shield, but not much luck. I don't really mind using it, but it's messy.

Jeff has a friend in Australia named Charlie who sent a letter and we just got it the other day, it was a package for Porter, a postcard for all of us (really Jeff) and a little booklet about South Australia. It was pretty cool getting such long distance mail! She

sent Porter a stuffed animal, a super soft platypus! I think it's pretty cool, as does Jeff, and P seems to dig it. The little booklet is pretty cool, also. Says a lot about South Australia, I can see it in Jeff that he misses it there a lot. Charlie is a nice lady and hopefully we'll get to visit her someday. Jeff caught this picture of P & the platypus the day he got it

Friday night me, Jeff and Porter went to Grandma Polly's so she could meet him. It was okay, grandma is crazy, but we had fun. Grandma has completely torn up her house, 100% and couldn't stop working on it! A couple rooms have new carpet in them, but you know her, she's got them covered up with plastic so no one can dirty them. The rest of the house is torn up, half put together, and torn up again. She was in high spirits the whole time, though. Jeff's never met her before, and most of what I told him proved true. She kept us very entertained all night, singing, joking, dancing. She made fun of Jeff's tattoo and asked if he could wash it off, and also started singing "I'm to sexy for my shoes". John (her boyfriend, not Uncle John) got a Mac desktop for his birthday last month. It's very nice, I wish I had one. We all sat together and took silly pictures on photobooth, Grandma loved it. Also, Saturday morning sometime between 3:30 and 6:30 I was changing Porter and he started saying little "goo"s and "coo"s between grunts and snorts! I was so excited and tried to wake up Jeff, but he's a hard sleeper and missed it. He hasn't done it since then, and I wish he would, it was really exciting!

Here's mine and Porter's first mac photo, taken with my laptop:

We had fun taking pictures, most of them didn't turn out to well, but oh well. I wish I had some of them from Grandma's computer, they were quite funny.

Not much else to say right now, more later!

-Ashley