Last night was hilarious – I think Henry was feeling a little left out of the loop since most of our attention has been toward the baby. So he suddenly got really cuddly and affectionate…even toward Will. We put the baby on his blanket to stretch out and Henry wanted to give him a hug. So I lifted up Will so Henry could hug him but instead of doing that, he kept running around in circles and kissing Will on the head as he passed by. Finally I pulled him in and poor Will was squished a little bit. It was pretty cute. Then Henry decided he wanted to feed Will – so I gave him the bottle and he would just stick it in the babies mouth and then pull it right back out. Will wasn’t too thrilled by this so by the 5th or 6th time he just closed his mouth while Henry proceeded to try and stick it up his nose. Poor thing! I finally had to take it away and Henry was pissed of course but it made for some comic relief.
My two babesTrying for a hugFinally!Time to eat!Henry had a bloody nose - why he has a huge white cotton ball sticking out of his nostril
I can’t believe it’s already been a week since our little boy decided to show up 18 days early! He keeps amazing us everyday – He only woke up once last night! Wow! Hopefully this trend continues and we get back to our usual sleep schedule soon. Haha. I’m not that unrealistic…I’m just glad he seems to be sleeping well and gaining weight. He’s probably going to be a little chubster like Henry. That’s fine. I love chubby babies. 🙂
Henry has warmed up to the baby a lot recently. He gets up and looks around for him, sees where he’s at and then goes about his usual routine. We got them to roll around on the blanket for while the other day. Maybe I’m being optimistic, but I am THRILLED at how Henry has handled Will’s arrival. I thought it would be a nightmare, but it has been anything but! Yay.
There is an old adage that goes “The best made plans are laid to waste…” That is exactly how Tommy and I felt after Will decided to show up 2 weeks early this past Monday. I’m not going to waste bandwidth giving you the gory details, but suffice it to say that everything that could have gone wrong with this delivery, did. In the last 5 minutes of my 14 hour labor, you would have thought they were filming the show “ER” in our delivery room. Nurses running everywhere, the doctor saying “This is your last try before we take you to the OR for a C-section” and my midwife looking me right in the eyes and saying “He’s right here!!PUSH!!!” Now that it’s over, we’ve looked back and decided we’re damn lucky to be taking home a beautiful, healthy baby boy, that despite being sent to the NICU came out with flying colors and impressed us all – and under all the circumstances, me being able to deliver him naturally. In the grand scheme of things, I still got to the end that I wanted – I just had to take a different route. This baby has shown us that no matter what life may throw at you, all you can do is roll with the punches – and realize that there is a silver lining to every situation.
So with that, allow me to introduce our second little son, William Lawrence Lind who came to us on Monday night, August 1st 2011. He weighed in at 5 pounds 10 ounces and was 17.5 inches long. Welcome home baby. 🙂
In the delivery room - I think this was taken about 4:30pm - I was exhaustedRight after he came out - he was whisked of to the NICU a minute later
