Introducing Jediah James Puffer

The Lord blessed us with our newest miracle and answered so many of our prayers for a great, "normal", natural birth.

Thank you Jesus for our precious new baby boy that we are all so in love with!

9 pounds 15 ounces

born Friday, July 23rd at 7:45am

21.5 inches long

Perfectly healthy

Amazing sleeper

Very happy baby

Here's mom weeping just moments after the birth and daddy handed Jediah to mom announcing that he was a boy!

Faylen and I meeting Jediah for the first time, just minutes after the birth

At 10lbs he looked like a toddler lying there in on the table passing his first test (the APGAR) with flying colors!

Jed and Grandma
Grandma Susan, Grandma Jill, Auntie Shoshi and Dad all got to see the amazing miracle of Jediah's birth

Grandpa Paul's first time holding him

Faylen was glowing with pride as she held her baby brother at the hospital. Now she finally has someone to pick on. :)

Jediah staring at Grandma Jill

Auntie Rachel came to visit at the hospital

Daddy's first swaddle not long after Jediah was born
Daddy's pride and joy

Faylen touching the baby for the first time just after he was born

We couldn't wait to pile onto mom

Cool number for his hospital security band, huh?

Our family of FIVE!

Dressed up in our "going home" outfits just before we left the hospital
Babies!

Sharing the baby at the hospital

Baby Jed slept like a champ at the hospital in his little bassinette: almost 6 hours straight the first night!

Already sucking his thumb!

First time buckling up

Jediah coming home for the first time

Welcomed with one of Shoshi's famous signs

Faylen was so gracious to give up her swing that she's been using for her baby dolls so Jediah could try it out. As soon as we walked in the door Faylen went running over to the swing and took out her doll and made room for her baby brother.

Introducing the babies: a priority for Faylen

Back from Sabbatical

So if you hadn't noticed, I took a little Sabbatical from the blog. After having never missed a month since I was born, 3 years ago, I took some time off to take care of my family. Now that I'm back in blogworld, I'm a little overwhelmed at having to catch up on almost 5 months. So I'm mainly just going to post some pics of past events over the last 6 months. They may be a bit out of order. I know you missed me terribly. So you can dry your eyes, the Puffer Post has returned and is back in full throttle! Enjoy!

Father's Day '10

We had a great father's day this year! We slept in, made daddy a special pancake breakfast, went out to lunch on the Santa Cruz wharf at Riva's with Jason & Rachel, G-ma & G-pa Spencer, and uncle Ryan, then played frisbee golf at De La Viega. It was such a beautiful day and nice to spend it outside hiking around. Then just the 4 of us went to capitola beach for our favorite dinner....Pizza my heart. We watched the sunset, played in the water and then went and got frozen yogurt. What a fun day!

Look at that shot! I got pretty good at keepin up with the guys and throwing my own disc on the course. Daddy gave me some good pointers so I could learn to play.

Cuties!

Dad in action. I was right behind him ALL day copying his every move.

The Puffer/Spencer gang!

Lollipops and frisbee discs

Grandpa and I

Happy Father's Day!

Dad's and kids

Capitola Beach

We found a starfish on the shore!

I ended up completely going in the water and getting my clothes soaked. I LOVE the ocean and wish I could just run in it and swim by myself!