firsts

With the arrival of mine and Rob's first son, Elijah, I have had people continuously ask me if I will be keeping a baby book. Although I do plan on creating one for him eventually, I wanted to find a way to document our life together for him rather than just his firsts (which we have had plenty of already!). So, I am creating my first blog to document our life together as a family - keeping track of Eli's firsts, our firsts together as a family, and just regular day to day life. The parts of life that you, unfortunately, forget about as time goes by but wish you could remember for always. So, that being said... here are the firsts of our firsts:

First labor: Christmas day, 2012
First surgery: Cesarean on December 26, 2012
First child: Elijah Robert, December 26, 2012 (two weeks early, comin' in at 6lbs, 13oz, 21inchs)
First coo: January 23, 2013 (saw the boob for dinner and got so excited we got some happy baby coo's!)
First roll over: January 27, 2013 (day after his 1 month birthday - He-Man!)
First smile at dad: January 30, 2013 (Mom wasn't jealous he got the first smile, swear...)
First smile at mom: February 1, 2013 (so excited to wake up and see momma's face!)
First blog post: February 4, 2013 (this life is too good to not share it)