Withdrawal Post

This post is for Michael who is in Montgomery working and suffering from Riley withdrawal! Presently Riley is propped up on my shoulder failing to burp...so I am a one handed typer and I think I will forget more words and move straight on to pictures.

The many faces of Riley.

Hi, obsessive Aunt Elizabeth is back again. : )

Here are some more pictures from Riley's first week.

Feel free to write a comment on what you think Riley must be thinking in each pic!

More Pictures

Riley is already growing up! I guess babies do that... I am hoping these pictures will turn out to be a decent enough quality that you can see him well. These are another product of my scavenging...
Riley is already almost at his birth weight - a week ahead of schedule! He is a good eater - definitley an Irvin characteristic... although, I know he gets that from his father too!

-Elizabeth

I am a photo scavenger...

So, since technical difficulties have been preventing photos from reaching me from Allison and Angie and since I have a job and cannot get to Montgomery to capture every second of Riley's life up to this point I am scavenging photo's from others who are more geographically lucky. This one is from Shelley's blog (see the side bar - she has fabulous paintings you should check out on her blog!) So thanks for an update Shelley, feel free to email me any pics you got before the batter went dead!

In this picture Riley is 8 days old!

- Elizabeth

Baby Chappell is here...

Below is Baby Chappell - Holland and Reed's little one. Allison and Holland were pregnant together (see picture below!) and Holland gave birth to Chappell on last Monday. She is so very precious - and apparently Michael is already joking that if Riley and Chappell were to marry how Holland and Reed would have to pay for the wedding... Allison says that Chappell is the spitting image of Reed, so I will have to have her post a picture of Reed soon so we can all weigh in!

This is a picture of Holland and Allison at Anne's wedding in December.


Congratulations Holland and Reed!
-Elizabeth
(PS More Riley Pics to follow soon, i promise!)

Paparazzi!

Riley is officially a star in the Irvin and Godwin Families - we have each taken an obsessive amount of photos of the lil' one... so here are a few of the photos I have from the Irvin camera - I hope to steal some from the Godwin camera soon too!

Gramps aka Grandpa Irvin: (Not, what he wants to be called, but my nickname for him for now! )

Grandpa Godwin :

Grandma Godwin:

Grandma Irvin:

Aunt Mary:

Second Cousin David:

Great Grandfather Pockey and Betty:

And midly obsessed Aunt Elizabeth (or Aunt Izzy as Emily calls me! Love it!):

This thumbs up pic was asked for by Allison - i guess its me telling Allison and Michael that they make a good baby? ;)

This picture below was right when I walked in and called Riley "it" - well that did not go over well with Allison who said right back to me "HE"! To which I responded, well for the past 10 months he has been an "it" so you are going to have to give me more than 5 seconds to adjust! : )

But, let me tell you - HE is way more amazing that I ever thought "IT" could be! We are all in Love!

-Elizabeth

It's A Boy!

On Behalf of Michael and Allison I would like to introduce Riley Earl Godwin!  He was born December 6th around 7 AM in the morning. He weighs 7 lb., 6 oz and is 20 and 1/4 inches long.  Allison is doing great - just exhausted from "giving birth".  Michael is a proud Daddy - making sure that from the start Riley roots for the Tide.  Riley is taking it all in with his bright eyes- when he is awake!  But he is quite content sleeping and eating like a good newborn!  

Allison earns a big pregnancy gold star - she gave birth all natural!  No epidural.   The Dr. said that her platelets were too low, so she had to buck up and do it the old fashioned way!  She did it all without screaming and remained calm.  Really - Michael even vouched for her!  

But pain and all she is recovering very well and when i asked her if all that cheesy stuff mother's say about falling in love immediately, etc was true she said "Yes - all that cheesy stuff is so true."  

I would have to agree! 

-Elizabeth