Retiring Gus

As many of you know, we started calling Peter, "Gus", just a few weeks along in my pregnany. We he was born, many people still called him that including us for a few months. That is the only way the Kahn boys refer to him. Less and less I have been calling him that and now it is time to retire the nickname. Labels on posts refering to him will now be under Peter...... Goodbye Gus!

It's Been A Long Time!

Well I have been on a two month break...but I am back! I took a break because I wasn't sure how many people were actually reading the blog. To my surprise I was asked a lot why I hadn't posted lately! So here I am.

A lot has happened in two months. In our lives we have attended three weddings and had three new babies enter our life! Whitney Camilla Varney, Cayla Mae Sullivan and Evelyn May Kahn all were born in two week intervals. Our little man has a bunch of ladies to chose from! We also got a new family member when Jenny and Craig were married at the end of August. Ben and Bethany and Tim and Tianna also had great weddings.

Peter has is growing faster then I can handle! I rarely call him Gus anymore, though the Kahn boys still do! I now usually call him Peter or Buna. Buna(a cross between buddy and buddda) At his 6 month check up he was 21.8 pounds!

We are staying busy and I will be back on more often!

A Morning at the Trolley Museum

Gus, Isaac and I are spending the morning at the Seashore Trolley Museum in Arundel. It is a great place for kids. They love the trolley rides! Will be adding a phot when I get home, haven't figured that part out from my blackberry yet!

4 month photo shoot

We took Gus to get his picture taken today. Here they are from Picture People. The password is peter4, if it doesn't automatically pop up!

http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/my/images?cg=207294587121026437

4 month appt.

Today Gus had his 4 month appt! No surprise he is weighing in at 19.12 pds. He is
26 1/2 inches long! He is in the 80th % for length, 99% for weight and head! He is a growing boy and Dr. Goodrich said he is doing great!

Happy Birthday Gus!

Where does the time go? Three months ago today, I gave birth to my beautiful baby boy! Pete and I are so in love with him, I can already not imagine my life without him. He is such a happy baby, a great eater and a good sleeper. About three weeks ago he started sleeping through the night, making our nights A LOT easier! I am guessing he weighs over 15 pounds now, a big boy!! The poor guy will probably have an idenity crisis due to the fact that he has so many nicknames! I decided to have a little photo shoot this morning to capture him on his three month birthday!

Return of the Internet!

Yes, it is true!! My internet works again!! I finally got around to calling Time Warner and yesterday they sent someone over! Our cable wire was not working, so now we are back up and running. I can start posting more now! I mean look at this kid, he is so cute, who wouldn't want to see more of him!! Hahaha!

Falling asleep in Daddy's arms.....


When we bought our house it was considered "move in" condition. However I don't think that house had been updated since the 70's so we have slowly been redoing a lot of things. We painted everything! We replaced all the hardware on the cabinets and doors in the house. We added recess lighting to the kitchen and living room, replaced all the light fixtures in the house, knocked down a wall and lots of other things. We had done so much to the kitchen and always talked about replacing the faucet. A rainy Sunday gave Pete the chance to do it!

Our old faucet with a broken sprayer!

Thank god I have a handy husband, that can do all these projects!

Our new faucet!

Bela trying to get a little attention from Pete also!

LaKermese Festival

Gus and I had a first together.... the LaKermese Festival in Biddeford. We were bummed that Pete was working. Each year they have a parade and festival celebrating the french heritage of the Biddo. This year we experienced the parade (his 3rd!) and interesting is all I can say! We had a great time with the people we were with, Mara & Ryan, Emily & Kenny, Bethany & Jay, and Jen & Joe. To tie it all in for you, Emily and I went to high school together, and Bethany, Mara, Emily, and Jen all went to college together. Out of us five ladies that were there, three of us have babies and both Mara and Jen are pregnant... we are growing up!!

Gus, Gideon & Ashlyn at the parade (Gus missed the first half!)

Emily and I with our boys!

Earlier in the day Bethany, Emily and I got our little ones together!
Ashlyn..7 months, Gideon..4 months, Gus..12 weeks

Pumpkin Visit

Jill (AKA Pumpkin) was my college rooommate. She now lives in Colorado. Her husband Matt's family lives in Connecticut, so they were able to come up and meet Gus while they were here! I hadn't seen her in a year so it was great to spend some time with her. Too short of a visit though.

Jill meets Gus








Matt &Jill with Gus

Picture People Photos

Today I took the little man to get some pictures taken at Picture People in the mall, here is the link if you want to check them out! He was really tired when we got there so we did the best we could. He feel asleep as soon as the camera stopped clicking! The password is peter4

http://smilestore.picturepeople.com/pn/tpp/claim?em=pjwescott@yahoo.com&acc=0055dd1fb5

Hope you enjoy them!

New Hampshire Visit

We went to spend the night with Ollie & Jill in New Hampshire. Trip two of three on my maternity leave roadtrips. Since the birth of Gus Jill and I haven't had much time to relax and talk.... we got to do both. It was so great! Ollie was good with Gus and Chris was out of town on training so it was just the mommas and their boys!

We did a little photo shoot with Gus

bathtime before bed

What do you do when you need to entertain two little boys and you each want to take a shower? Aahh, the stroller!

We had to get a photo of all of us before we left! I didn't want to leave but we had to head home to see daddy!

Mommas and their boys!

2 month appt.

Today Gus had his 2 month appointment with Dr. Goodrich. Dr. Goodrich was my doctor as well as Pete's when we were kids so it is kind of neat being able to bring our child to his as well! He is doing great.... here are his measurements today at two months:

% means what percentile he is in for his age

Length: 23 1/2 inches long .... 75 %
Head: 42" .............................. 94%
Weight: 14.2 pounds ............... off the chart!!
(They put him at 98% but the chart only goes to 97%)

He also had to get three shots today. He did better then I would have! He was not impressed but is now resting in his swing. His next doctor appt. is in August.

8 Weeks

Hard to believe that it has been 8 weeks since Gus entered the world. I am loving being a Mom! He is getting better with sleeping at night and we have gotten into a bit of a routine. This week has been a long week, it has rained all day, everyday since Tuesday and I have a pretty bad head cold. Looking forward to a relaxing weekend!

Memorial Day Weekend

We had a great relaxing weekend! Lots of yard work and relaxing at home. Monday we decided to go to the Memorial Day parade they have in Westbrook. Gus went to his first parade and slept through most of it! He was able to be awake for some of it!

We then decided to go down to Old Orchard Beach for some pier fries and pizza. The weather was beautiful! We even ran into our friends Nick & Kati! Had a nice visit with them on the beach.
We then went home for naps (I needed one too!) and ended up going over to Pam & Joe's for dinner to end our great weekend!

Ode to Moms!

Mother's Day... my first as an actual mother! I started off the day by not waking until after 7!! As my Mother's Day gift, all I wanted was a full night of sleep. So Saturday night I went to bed at 9 and didn't wake until the next morning. Thanks Pete! Gus and I then let Daddy get some rest and went to buy flowers for the Grandmother's and Great Grandmother's. We then started the day of visits!

First stop Memere's (Grammy Pammy's Mom) house. It was a full house when we got there. Gus got to meet Uncle Randy who was visiting from North Carolina and the Webster's were there,the Wood's stopped by for a quick visit along with Grammy Pammy, Putt Putt & Auntie Cyn......

Memere and her 1st great granchild

Gus likes spending time with Grammy Pammy!

After the visit at Memere's we then headed over the Gram and Papa Wescott's house where we saw lots of family and Gus met some more of his aunt's, uncle's and cousins....

Enjoying a drink with Grammie Wescott

After the Wescott's we got to go home for a brief rest(well Gus got to nap!) before going to our next stop. We dropped off Grammy Pammy's gift and then headed up to Windham to see Mame and Papa Rick......

Visiting Mame

The day was getting exhausting!

We ended our day with a visit from Nonni and Poppi at our house along with Auntie Jenny and Uncle Craig who got to stop by for a little while!

Wishing Nonni a Happy Mother's Day

We all survived the Tour de Mom's 2009 and was glad to part of the race this year! No better gift then the little man I am holding in my arms at this very moment!! Happy Mother's Day to every Mom out there!!

Needing a little man time after all those ladies, he ended the night in Daddy's arms

T-Ball in Kennebunk

Ethan & I at his First T-Ball game

Saturday was a wonderful day spent with the Kahn's! Ethan had is very first T-Ball game at 10:00 so Gus and I drove to Kennebunk to watch. It was the cutest thing watching a group of 5 year olds play ball. Ethan loved every minute of it and Gus slept through the whole game! We went back to the house after for lunch and a visit and it was so great to spend time with the whole family. I miss the boys alot. They were so great with Gus, they wanted to feed him, burp him, hold him, play with him and were happy when he woke up! We(Ethan took a few) took lots of pictures and below are a few. When I go back to work, Gus will have great playmates!

Isaac very excited to hold baby Gus!

Ethan will be ready for his little sister!

Ethan took a turn at the camera and captured a cute moment!

One month old!

Our little guy is one month old!! I can't believe how fast a month has gone by! He is sleeping pretty well at night though he gave Mommy and Daddy a run for their money the last couple nights!! We have been still getting a steady stream of visitors and we got to go to Ethan & Isaac's birthday party on Saturday. He loves car rides, thank god!! We went yesterday to buy a video camera to capture all these cute moments. He is getting bigger everyday and we wanted to get him on film while he was still little. So stay tuned for videos!!!

Great Picture

I think this is such a funny photo...he is already annoyed by the amount of photos that have been taken of him!! I had to post it!

3 Weeks Old!!

Today I am three weeks old!! My Mommy and Daddy are loving every moment!! (Well maybe not loving the 3am feeding!) Off to talk a walk with Mommy and Bela on this beautiful day!

Auntie Jill came to visit!!

Four Generations

All four Peters

April 20, 2009