When we first got home from the hospital there were offers of food and friends who would watch my children. Everyone kept saying "I know how hard it is to have a new baby around." I would smile and decline the offers because we really were doing just fine. Other than recovering from the c-section, things were great. The boy slept 20 of 24 hours and the time he was awake he was generally happy. He was such a good baby that when spring break rolled around, I got jealous of all the people heading for sunshine, so we hopped on the band wagon. We went to St. George. It was a great vacation filled with sunshine, red rock, swimming pools, happy children, and a sleepy newborn.
Then we came home and Nathan woke up. He woke up and started crying. He is still a super cute kid and we all love him and love having him around. But when his eyes are open, he is crying or fussing. It might sound like complaints coming from me, but I am not complaining. In fact, Mike doesn't understand how I can look at Nathan's angry face and hear him crying and laugh and smother him in kisses. I love him every minute of the day. It's really nice to have those feelings because I remember having to put Allie in her crib and walk away when she was a crying newborn. I still loved her, it just got to be too much to take sometimes.
I don't know if it is because I have wanted this for so long, or if I am just delirious right now, but the crying hasn't phased me.
Jake and Mike have a hard time hearing him cry. They both suggest time after time that he must be hungry. (Even after watching me feed him minutes before). Mike doesn't believe me when I say he is just acting like a normal baby and that Allie was much worse (knock on wood).
Jake is so sweet with him, he is constantly following the cries to wherever Nathan happens to be and he tries to soothe him with his binky. If all else fails, he covers his ears in distress and asks me to make it stop.
Luckily, Nathan still sleeps well so we have lots of breaks from the crying.
Allie has had to be reminded more times than I can count that when the baby is sleeping, LEAVE HIM ALONE!!! I don't know why that is so hard to remember.
That being said, I am amazed at how adept Allie is at taking care of Nathan. Yes, she is sometimes unaware of her strength and seems to fold him in half without even noticing, but holding him comes naturally. She rocks him and sings into his ear (we are working on the decibel level). She reminds us all to support his neck when we are holding him and it is her goal in life to be able to walk around the house with him. Luckily that is one rule she remembers more often than not.
Contrary to what it might seem, the point of this post is not to talk about crying. The point of this post is to show some cute pictures I took yesterday of the boy child. My friend Kristin knows her way around the crochet hook and she made me some super cute hats. Nathan was covered in a red rash and got very sad before we got too many pictures, but I am happy with some of the ones I took. So here he is!
Then we came home and Nathan woke up. He woke up and started crying. He is still a super cute kid and we all love him and love having him around. But when his eyes are open, he is crying or fussing. It might sound like complaints coming from me, but I am not complaining. In fact, Mike doesn't understand how I can look at Nathan's angry face and hear him crying and laugh and smother him in kisses. I love him every minute of the day. It's really nice to have those feelings because I remember having to put Allie in her crib and walk away when she was a crying newborn. I still loved her, it just got to be too much to take sometimes.
I don't know if it is because I have wanted this for so long, or if I am just delirious right now, but the crying hasn't phased me.
Jake and Mike have a hard time hearing him cry. They both suggest time after time that he must be hungry. (Even after watching me feed him minutes before). Mike doesn't believe me when I say he is just acting like a normal baby and that Allie was much worse (knock on wood).
Jake is so sweet with him, he is constantly following the cries to wherever Nathan happens to be and he tries to soothe him with his binky. If all else fails, he covers his ears in distress and asks me to make it stop.
Luckily, Nathan still sleeps well so we have lots of breaks from the crying.
Allie has had to be reminded more times than I can count that when the baby is sleeping, LEAVE HIM ALONE!!! I don't know why that is so hard to remember.
That being said, I am amazed at how adept Allie is at taking care of Nathan. Yes, she is sometimes unaware of her strength and seems to fold him in half without even noticing, but holding him comes naturally. She rocks him and sings into his ear (we are working on the decibel level). She reminds us all to support his neck when we are holding him and it is her goal in life to be able to walk around the house with him. Luckily that is one rule she remembers more often than not.
Contrary to what it might seem, the point of this post is not to talk about crying. The point of this post is to show some cute pictures I took yesterday of the boy child. My friend Kristin knows her way around the crochet hook and she made me some super cute hats. Nathan was covered in a red rash and got very sad before we got too many pictures, but I am happy with some of the ones I took. So here he is!
As soon as I tried to switch things up a bit and change hats, we got this...
So I fed him and we came back to the project when he was deep in sleep...
Pretty darn cute if you ask me...
