James and Lys plus one

So we had some fun with Alyssa's photo booth. (Evalie loves this thing). It took us like 15 tries to get one good picture but we had fun trying. It's pretty weird starting the new year with a new addition to the family. Usually we're on vacation during the holidays...this year our vacation was a trip to the hospital. I guess we have to grow up. Here is the picture that we were finally able to get right.

Goodbye Culin Family

Judah really feels loved. I am not sure what we are going to do. He is really used to being held all of the time. All of our family has left, just waiting for my family to arrive next.

Cheryl, Grandma ( we are not sure what her name is going to be because the Korean word for grandma is 'halmoni' and lets face it that is hard for me to say let alone Jude to try to say), and Eddie with baby Jude.

Shout out to my Grandma's.

I'm like Lionel Richie baby...all nite long.

The joys of parenthood. My son must be jet lagged because he sleeps all day and is up all night. Now I'm still pretty blessed because he's not crying all night. He's just awake. He lays there and looks around and just observes but he doesn't cry. So logic says...so go to sleep and let him stay awake. Well...I think he's social too because he doesn't just like to stay in his crib and lay there. He wants to be around us and lay there. So he makes little noises of uncomfort until he's around us. So I was up with the runt at 12am to 2am and again from 4am until 6am just hanging out, then he woke up at 7 to eat and got up again at 9 and stayed up until 1pm. Now he's asleep and wont' wake up. I'm going to try something new tonight...I'll just go downstairs with him and play video games. While he looks around...might as well be productive.

Sorry Family

We have been having some lazy days at the Culin House. It is getting cold and I am a little worried about taking a new baby out, so we have been chillin' at home.
Incha, my mother-in-law, is an amazing cook and she shared her talents with us tonight.

Auntie Cheryl is working hard to finish a blanket for Jude.

A self portrait, these are my favorite.

Thanks Heaven for little boys. They love their Mommies (and I wouldn't have it any other way)

The Milk Coma

By far breastfeeding is the hardest part of this whole process for me. My labor, I have to say, was easy! But the feeding has been a lot more challenging. We are working on it, but I wanted to share my favorite part. James calls it the "Milk Coma." This is the before picture:

And here is Jude's after picture. He is so precious.

And the old saying, "everyone thinks they have the cutest baby" it's really true! I think God designed it that way, so they are still cute at 4 am when he keeps me up.

He is a first child

So today I realized that every day I have the camera out to document everything that is happening to Judah. He is a first child!
I am already feeling sorry for our next child, so I am going to try to make extra effort with the next one.

Today was our first walk outside in the stroller


Don't worry it was in the low 60's out here and he was well bundled.

Jude is 10 days old

Everyone is so helpful! Auntie C loves her baby Judah!

Just some "baby laying on the bed" pictures.

The Culin's are here

We are so blessed that our family is here for the holidays to come and see us!
They might even be here to see the baby.
James' Mom, brother and sister-in-law (who happens to be my best friend)
are here for a whole week.
I just continue to thank the Lord for all of the blessings that He has given me!

Merry Christmas

Christmas this year is so different for us. Just a quiet day at home with the three of us. James is such an adoring father he wants to get a picture of every face that Jude makes. This one we call the pirate face. This is his "my first Christmas" outfit. His Auntie Evie got him a cute Christmas outfit with a hat, but the outfit didn't fit, so we made due with the hat. Overall it was a great day!!

Family time on Christmas Eve

My Brother Eddie is so amazing. Our family is a family of MAC users. Not that I am selling the product, but they are really cool. Eddie and Cheryl (top Left) are in California and Mike and Amanda (top right) are in Hawaii. That is a 5 hour time difference between all of us, but we were able to spend time together on Christmas Eve. I love my family!
Merry Christmas Eve all.