Visitors!

Just a few of our visitors the first month.  Normally, I would have been taking more pictures, but I'm a little (a lot) of my game when I'm sleep deprived.  So I'm sorry that I didn't get more of other family and friends who visited!! 

 

First, I have to add these phone pics of the kids loving on Ben.  They love him so much!!

 

Dear friends Archie and Fran, who have been like another set of grandparents to Nate and Lilly, came to visit when Ben was about a week old. 

 

Cousin Avery loved holding and loving on Ben!

 Sweet cousins Lane and Avery over at Grandmas. 

 One of my best friends from college, Jennifer.

 

Of course Grandma comes for frequent visits, and stayed with us for a whole week!!  She was a ton of help, and the big kids had a blast playing with her and getting some needed attention!

Grandpa and Grandma from Colorado came down just as soon as they could get here to see sweet new baby!  They got in a lot of good cuddle time with all three kiddos!

And once again, my beloved OBGYN, Dr. Luck.  This was at my post partum  appointment exactly a month after Benny was born (can you tell he was hungry?).

More (Texas) Grandma!

 My sister and nieces came all the way from Virginia!  Sweet Scarlett will be a very good Mommy some day. 

 Ben had literally JUST started smiling the day they all got here, so we had fun just staring at him and trying to get him to smile the whole weekend they were visiting!!

 

So lucky to have my mom, sisters, in-laws, nieces, nephews, and good friends who wanted to come love on Ben and see how we were all doing.  Can't wait for more family to come visit in November and December!!  Love all you guys!

 

Adjusting!

The last few weeks have flown by!  My mom came and stayed with us for a week, then Brian's parents came to visit from Colorado, and a few days later my sisters were here visiting!  I'm so overwhelmed by all of the pictures I need to download, I'm not going to be able to do that right now!!  My next post will have phone pictures and real pictures from all of our visits.  What I did want to do right now is talk about the kids and what Benny's been doing!

Mostly he is doing what you would expect of a newborn.  A LOT of eating and pooping and a LITTLE sleeping!  Usually, he sleeps from about 10PM-1AM, then eats and goes back to sleep from about 2 to 5AM, or something like that.  Of course there have been some nights where we're up every hour or two all night, but hopefully those will end soon!  The most difficult thing for me thus far has been how hungry he is all the time, and since I am nursing I just feel like I am sitting here feeding him all day and night.  I'm going back and forth with thinking about giving him formula, but trying to make it at least to three months before I do that.  I know it sure would make my life a lot easier to be able to have some help when Ben is hungry!!

Right now as I type this, he has been fed and changed and is still fussing in his swing.. :-/  As much as I love this teeny tiny stage, I hate the inexplicable crying.  I just wish he could tell us what's wrong!! 

Last week at about 7 weeks old, he started smiling and responding, and I'M IN LOVE!  Nate and Lilly are too, they just run up to save him every time they hear him let out the slightest whimper.  They love to kiss all over his face and toes and hold his hands.  They talk to him and sing to him, it's very sweet. 

Here are a few of our FIRST smiley pictures I caught with my phone..

Ben's first month- MORE PICTURES!

More pictures from the hospital!

 

  Sweetest big brother and sister in the world!

First bath at home!

 

 

 Lots of sleeping going on the first few weeks!

 

First bath in his baby tub!

 

  ONE month old!

First Day of School..

..was a SUCCESS!

Even though they could have gone on to Kindergarten this year, we decided we'd do one more year of Pre-K before we enter into the real world.  Boy, am I glad we did that! They just seem so little still, and I think it's going to be so good for them.

The obligatory first day picture!

 

 I took these at "meet the teacher" night the week before school started.  They both liked their teachers and were very excited for the first day.  I love this age, when they are still liking school!

 Nate has a good buddy in his class this year.

 

More first day pictures, taken with my phone outside of their classrooms. 

 

So we are half way through the second week now and everything seems to be going fairly smoothly.  We didn't have any tears the first day because they are in separate classes.  They didn't seem to mind at all!  I think it's gong to be great that they have their own projects to work on and their own  friends to play with.   They could definitely use the break from each other! 



More phone pictures!

I just loved these pictures my mom got from the hospital with her phone, so I had to add them!

 

This was the second night when Brian was about to take the kids back home and Lilly was sad that I was going to be away one more night.  So we sung "You are my Sunshine" like we do every night when I tuck her in.  My sweet girl!

 

 I added these backwards- this was right after he was born.

Grandma and her last grandbaby!

 Daddy was VERY tired after going almost 24 hours with no sleep!

 We love Dr. Luck!

 And these are funny.. taken right before we left to go to the hospital.  My last preggo pictures ever!