Baby Brag Time!!

So, I've actually been trying to compose a blog post of the thoughts I have been having over the past few weeks, but it is hard to put them all into words without sounding either too didactic or really negative or just plain confusing or boring even. I have placed it on hold for now--it may or may not actually make the blog roll cut--because I have much more exciting things to post:

Lukas Thuranira Limiri can now be introduced to the world!!! So excuse me while I purge the anxiousness I have had bottled up from all of these photos and videos that I have not been allowed to post!!!

Of course this is not all that I have, but here are just a few of the "Lukas firsts" that I never got to brag about:

The first I ever got to see him. It was a photo texted to me by Daddy George because I wasn't allowed to see him or Mommy yet (because of the c-section). I was dying out in the waiting room.

First time Mekenze got to hold him. It was at least two hours after he was born. I kept insisting until the nurse finally brought him in. It was such a precious moment! I couldn't help but get choked up a bit.

First family photo... 

First cutest close up ever!

Grandma JuJu's first hold!!!!

Just...look at those lips!

First time I got to see his eyes open. Aren't they gorgeous??

First bath

I love baby feet!  Look how long his witto feetsies are!

First visit to Grandma and Grandpa's house (1 week old)

First time meeting Great Grandma Delna!

Just a cute Daddy and little Dude photo. George is consoling him after a bath. 

He does not like being cold! 

First cuddle in Grandma & pa's bed

First comb over :)

Chilling with Mommy on the floor. I love how they are looking at each other.

First time playing with Uncle Karter. They're playing "tummy time."

Look at him look at me! He knows who JuJu is!!
(JuJu is one of the African language names for Grandma--it's Kimeru--which is George's native dialect. I think it's cute! In Swahili--another language he speaks-- the word for grandma is "NyaNya." It also means tomato... )

I have to share a fun story. My brother (Matt) and sister-in-law(Jenn) have a daughter who is just 3 months younger than Mekenze. Her name is Chevia (Shu-Vay). She and Mekenze were expecting their first babies just a day apart. We all thought it would be fun if the cousins would be born the same day. Chevia had been having false labor for a few days, dilated to 3 and such, and Mekenze had no real indication that she was going to deliver ... until her water broke. She went into the hospital August 30, and Lukas was born on the morning of the 31st. Soon after he was born, I received a text that Chevia was going into the hospital. Her baby girl, Eloise, was born later that same day!!! 

It was a Gates family baby fest!

I still haven't seen this sweet girl, but her pictures are adorable!! 

I mean, seriously!!

Matt adores babies, and he never really got to have a newborn of his own (he met Chevia when she was 2), so this is precious!!!

Isn't this a sweet family!!!