One Month Check Up

Will and I headed to the doctor on Monday. I always have such anticipation as they wheel in the scale. Is my little guy growing the way he should? Is nursing working out for us? Am I giving him what he needs? The sad thing is that I'm much more laid back about things this time around, so you can only imagine my stress every time Max was weighed in. . .

It turns out I had no need to be worried. Will has surpassed all hopes for his growth. Considering he was born on the small side, 6lb 9oz - 20th percentile, he has more than made up for it. He now tips the scale at 9lb 12oz and has already moved up to the 50th percentile. I guess things are going well! The doctor was very happy with this gain and so was I! He has also grown two inches and is now 21 1/2 inches long. I thought he seemed bigger, but when I see him every day it is always tough to judge. Now I'm happy I have a little reassurance that things are going well.

Max is at day care for this week and next. Then after that the three of us will be spending the rest of our summer together. I have to admit I'm slightly worried about being home by myself with a three year old and a six week old all day. As hard as it is to be a working mom, I really don 't know how all of the stay at home moms do it! I think I need to find some fun outings to plan to keep our days from dragging on. Hopefully mother nature is getting all the rain out of her system now so that when I have Max we can spend time outside.

One Month Old

Wow, I can't believe Will has been a part of our lives for a whole month already. Time is going so quickly. He is getting so big - I'm shocked at how different he looks now! I think I forgot how quickly babies change, it is incredible. Will had a bit of a rash at three weeks so I had to take him to the doctor. He weighed in at 8 lb 7 oz! I was shocked, that is almost two pounds more than his birth weight. We head to the doctor for his one month check up on Monday, so I'm excited to see how much he weighs now.

Will is smiling a few times a day now. I swear God purpusly give babies the ability to smile just when their sleep deprived mommies don't think they can do any more. I can be utterly exhausted and just able to function and all it takes is a smile from Will and I feel like I can do anything.

I remember when we first had to send Max to daycare. He refused the bottle for days! It was so stressful - he was only eating an ounce or two the entire day! In order to not face this same problem we are going to try to give Will bottles on a fairly regular basis. Daddy gave Will his first bottle just the other night. It was too cute to watch. Now we just need to stick to the plan of giving a bottle - I swear nursing is just so much easier!

I also have to put in this pictures of Max on his new bike - Daddy is so proud, he found it at a garage sale for $5. Nonna took Max to Children's Hospital to get a helmet so Max is all ready for the road! He doesn't quite have the hang of it yet. He keeps wanting to pedal backwards, which is actually the brake so that doesn't work out too well. He will get the hang of it, and in the meantime he looks pretty darn cute practicing!

PInk Eye?!?

How does this perfect little two week old - that hasn't been out in public - get pink eye!? I feel like an awful mommy! We have been getting a bit stir crazy so we have made trips in the car - the drive through bank, the carpet store where Nonna ran inside, Carter's where mommy ran inside. . . The only time he has gotten out of the car was at Nonna's house and at Max's therapy - we were the only ones there! Again, how does this happen? Hopefully the eye drops the doctor prescribed will do the trick and our little man will back to 100% soon, and daddy can quit singing Sleep With One Eye Open. Luckily it doesn't seem to be bothering Will too much, so I guess that makes me feel a little bit better.

On a side note, I just have to throw in this picture of Max. He is such a little comedian! Max and Brian went to Trader Joe's and Max thought he would be funny and put the bag on his head. It was all fun and games until he bumped his head on the counter.

Our Boys

Does it get any cuter than this? Max was all excited. He said "Baby Will open eyes, see Max!" We are so lucky!

One Week and Growing!

Will is one week old. . . plus two days. I 'm a little late posting. Will was all ready to go on Thursday morning as we headed to the pediatrician his one week checkup. Fortunately, we were the only ones in the waiting room so I didn't have to worry too much about Will catching any crazy diseases. The doctor said that he looks great! He weighed in at 6 lb 8 oz - that's only one ounce less than his birth weight! I was thrilled with this. Max took a full two weeks to get back to birth weight and it was rather stressful. I'm glad that Will is packing on the pounds, or rather ounces.

We are settling into a routine at home. Will does pretty well at night so far, he wakes up every three hours to eat, but he does go back to sleep pretty easily. We have been trying to do some fun things with Max to help him with the transition. Thank goodness for Nonna Carlotta! She took Max on his first bus ride on Thursday, this may sound silly but he loves buses. He loved it! He was enthralled with the bus driver and can't wait to go on another bus ride soon. Nonna also came over and helped us bake some cookies yesterday. Will even woke up to see what all the excitement was about!

Will Meets Leo

I have blogged in the past about Monkey Man - Max's favorite little stuffed animal that Nonna Carlotta bought for him. He snuggles with Monkey Man every night and brings him to day care every day. Well today Will got to meet his little future lovey - Leo the Lion. Leo is almost as big as Will at this point and Will can't really snuggle with him yet, but it was too cute to see Leo and Will laying on the pillow together.

Max continues to be a big helper. He brings Leo to Will whenever he sees that the two are not together. Max doesn't like to be without his Monkey Max so he wants to make sure that Will isn't without Leo. Too cute!

Home Sweet Home

We have been home for almost 24 hours as a family o four. I have to say I'm glad to be home. It was tough having our family split up for the past four days. Max has been giving Brian a run for his money and I missed my little Max Man!

Brian and I brought Will home yesterday with a clean bill of health. He had even gained an ounce our last day in the hospital! Who-hoo! We came home and got all set up before Brian went to pick Max up from daycare. When Max came home he was so excited to see mommy and baby Will. He couldn't wait for mommy to play trains and he was more than willing to help baby will with his pacifier.

Today Max is at day care again to give us a little time to relax and, drumroll please, get the yard tractor delivered from Sears! Brian is all excited about his riding lawn mower. He was telling Will all about it when I got out of the shower this morning. I think part of him is glad to have another boy to some day help with all the yard work.