Callen has had a very busy first month of life. We have made sure to expose him to quite a bit. We have been to the Mall of America at 8 days old, we went for our first walk at 5 days old, we have had a number of visitors and we also went to his very first autograph signing. 
Grandma Nona came to stay with us while Daddy went to the National Sprint Car races in Knoxville Iowa when he was 5 days old. We had quite an adventure that week as there was a pretty big storm and we got a TON of water in the basement. Luckily, I have a mother who isn't afraid of getting busy and took charge of the clean up while I was up and down the stairs taking care of Callen. We had 5 full shop vac tubs and about 30 containers from the hoover floor mate. It was awful and I would have been a basketcase if I was by myself. 
When Callen was 13 days old, we went to get an autograph for Daddy. I will be honest, it was not on my priority list of "to-dos", but Jerad hinted at it several times that if I wanted to get out, there was an autograph signing I could go to. So we packed ourselves up and met Danny Valencia of the Twins. Now this trip was also a bit of a stressful adventure. When you take out a newborn, you just never know what you will get, well he was just a doll while we were there, but due to some confusion on the location, we were about 10-15 minutes behind schedule and was really close to not getting it. We arrived about 11:15 (started at 11AM) and stood in line behind about 150-200 people. We were getting closer and closer to Danny and were getting the warnings from his marketing guy saying there was a good chance we wouldn't get our autograph. Well he must have seen the hormonal emotional breakdown that I was going to have if I didn't up there b/c he finally cut off the line at 3 people behind us. He probably understood how hard it is to get a newborn out and keep calm. So there was no breakdown and Jerad was thrilled to get the above picture in his email at work after we were done. Mission Complete!!
Grandma Nona came to stay with us while Daddy went to the National Sprint Car races in Knoxville Iowa when he was 5 days old. We had quite an adventure that week as there was a pretty big storm and we got a TON of water in the basement. Luckily, I have a mother who isn't afraid of getting busy and took charge of the clean up while I was up and down the stairs taking care of Callen. We had 5 full shop vac tubs and about 30 containers from the hoover floor mate. It was awful and I would have been a basketcase if I was by myself. 
When Callen was 13 days old, we went to get an autograph for Daddy. I will be honest, it was not on my priority list of "to-dos", but Jerad hinted at it several times that if I wanted to get out, there was an autograph signing I could go to. So we packed ourselves up and met Danny Valencia of the Twins. Now this trip was also a bit of a stressful adventure. When you take out a newborn, you just never know what you will get, well he was just a doll while we were there, but due to some confusion on the location, we were about 10-15 minutes behind schedule and was really close to not getting it. We arrived about 11:15 (started at 11AM) and stood in line behind about 150-200 people. We were getting closer and closer to Danny and were getting the warnings from his marketing guy saying there was a good chance we wouldn't get our autograph. Well he must have seen the hormonal emotional breakdown that I was going to have if I didn't up there b/c he finally cut off the line at 3 people behind us. He probably understood how hard it is to get a newborn out and keep calm. So there was no breakdown and Jerad was thrilled to get the above picture in his email at work after we were done. Mission Complete!!
This was also the same night we decided to get our two "children" together for their very first picture together. They both look so thrilled, don't they? They don't know it yet, but I'm sure they will grow up to be best of friends.
At 21 days old we had a few visitors that traveled from a couple hours away. My grandparents - Callen's Great Grandma and Grandpa Miland came to meet him for the first time. Of course he was delighted with all the company. He also had a visit from his Grandpa Jeff and Grandma Evelyn. Grandpa Jeff visited in the hospital, but this was the first time Grandma Eve met him. They loved holding their grandson as they both love babies and definitely love their very first grandchild.Twenty-two days old and we were out at Uncle Gary's work farm. Luckily, Uncle Gary gave Callen a pass this weekend and only made Daddy work this time. We headed out to Gary and Sue's house this afternoon so Jerad and Gary could set up their deer stands for this fall. Nattie also got in some puppy playtime as she saw her doggy cousins Frankie (shown in picture) and Freddy (who walked out of the photo). Freddy is her favorite cousin b/c they can rough house, but Frankie is in LOVE with Nattie and will walk around trying to hump her where ever she is...and mostly he is humping the air b/c Nattie walks away. It is quite comical.
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