I'm Not A Bad Mommy!!!

Then why do I always feel like it??? The saying, "Why wake a sleeping baby" keeps coming in my head every 3 hours when it is feeding time. I feel awful waking our little guy up when he is sleeping just so soundly/soundlessly. It is a nice break from his "pissed off cry" that he likes to do when he is gassy or just plain irritable. Poor kid just looks so confused and frustrated and upset when I wake him up and I feel like the worst mother in the world to make him cry for no reason. Now don't think I am sitting her crying my eyes out cause I feel awful. I actually laugh my head off listening to his cute little cry because it is such a "cry wolf" cry just to get someone's attention and to let you know he is not pleased with you. I just don't like waking him up to eat, but he has to eat and I need him to eat so it is really a mute point.

Auntie Kathrine is in town this week until mid next week and it is so nice that she is here visiting. This is the first time she has been out to our house and it is so nice to have her here. We have lots of appointments while she is here so that they are all taken care of before I am left on my own, all alone! Yesterday she watched him for an hour and a half while I got my teeth cleaned and then got my first cavity filled as an adult. The last filling was when I had baby teeth.

That is about all here! Hope everyone is doing well. We really are doing well. The real test will begin next week when it is just me, the kid and the dog.

2.5 Weeks

I had fun with my new toy the other day and took some super cute pix of the little man! It took quite a few pix to get some really good pix, but I guess that is how taking pix work!

I think Mason is going through a growth spurt, because he is wanting to eat a lot more often than usual, especially at night for the past 2 nights. I was enjoying 4 hours stints of sleeping and for the past 2 nights I have been getting about an hour at a time. ARGH!!!! It is amazing that I can still function on lack of sleep. As you can tell Mason has gained quite a bit of weight! He is getting more pudgy and filled out. I am missing the small little Mason that I had a week ago!

Enjoy the pix of Mason!

2 Weeks Postpartum

Mason is now 2 weeks old! CRAZY! He is such a wonderful baby. He makes me laugh especially when he is doing his, "pissed-off" cry because it is just so funny sounding. At least I can laugh at the little things! He is already chunking up and I think he is getting close to 8 lbs by now. He is a hearty eater, when he decides to latch on, and loves to sleep! He has been giving me 4-5 hours of sleep in a row at nights! I wake up at 2am for a feeding and then he is out until 7:30ish. He enjoys sleeping on the Sheep Skin blanket my parents got for him and he loves to snuggle! He also likes his car seat and falls asleep and stays asleep in the car seat! This is such a blessing as we live 40 minutes to anywhere. Hopefully it stays like this!

This week is what I am calling my transition week. Figuring out how to do normal everyday things, while still having a backup person here to help in case I need it. I did get a shower this morning with him sleeping in his crib instead of Grandma holding him for me, and he is still asleep in his crib hence this post I am able to put up. Also the pix at the bottom is me 2 weeks after baby. My mom and I think I look about 23 weeks pregnant. I am down 25 lbs already which is great. Hoping that it continues to fall off, but I know that it will not come off as quickly. I am planning on going back to the gym in Sept and really working on getting my body back to how it was. I want to be at my pre-pregnancy weight by Feb when I see Matt for his 2 weeks R&R and my ultimate goal is to be at my personal weight goal by Mason's first birthday! I can do this!

Daddy is getting pix of him everyday so that he can see how much our little guy has changed since birth. Mason still looks like his daddy, but has my hot headed temper. My mother finds it quite amusing that he has such a temper. Even the nurse mentioned his temper just after we got him circumcised. Matt gets to hear his temper too on most nights when he calls, but when I put Matt on speaker phone Mason just conks out and sleeps. He loves to hear daddy's voice. Matt made recordings of stories before he left so we have 54 different chapters for Mason to hear with his daddy reading to him.

Things are going great. I am almost full healed from labor and I am really feeling well. I am trying not to overdo it each day. If we go out for Doc appointments the next day we take it easy. I am however, booking appointments such as to see the dentist or other follow up appointments for me, while someone is here to watch him for me at the office so that it is taken care of for the next 6 months.

That is about all going on here! We are just taking it nice and slow and trying to figure each other out! I am so thankful for Mason being here and being so HEALTHY!!! Thank you, everyone for your love and support!

~2 Weeks ago, morning of the birth~

~Today~

~Mason got this toy for Archer and Archer loves it! Protective much???~

Mason Birth Announcement

Cuddle Up Blue Birth Announcement

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5 Days Old

Grandpa took out his new toy to shoot some beautiful pix of Mason on a lambs skin blanket which was my fav type of blanket for me growing up. Also just some more pix for Daddy to see.

Daddy's Departure

3 days after Mason was born, Matt had to leave for military duty to serve our Country. He will be going to Iraq after spending some time in Washington finishing training that he missed while he was in Afghanistan. Thursday was a hard day, not only with the influx of hormones and emotions I was already going thru but to top it off with daddy leaving about put me over the edge. Matt is proud to serve our Country and doesn't like the timing but will proudly serve for our family and yours. I am so proud of him and know that this sacrifice of time now will be worth it in the end. Our marriage is strong and our family can get thru this. Matt will be serving a deployment of 1 year so for Mason's 1st birthday, his birthday gift will be his daddy! Here are some pix from Thursday.

~After our first night home, so tired!~

~Last pix with Daddy at the gate for his flight. They gave me a gate ticket so that we could say good-bye.~

Mason's Baby Blessing

We are so thankful for the opportunity that Matt got to give Mason a blessing for our church the night before Matt had to leave. It was a wonderful blessing and evening. Couple of things. We gave Mason his very first bath here at the house, so first bath in general and also first bath at home. Grandma helped with the bath and Grandpa and daddy took all the pix! Mason did not like the bath one bit but it had to be done because he had to look super cute for the blessing. The pix if really funny to me because the areas that need to be blurred were naturally blurred from all his moving around! Sorry Mason for posting this, I know you will be mad at me when you are older but you are just so darn cute!!!

Couple things about the blessing. We had quite the assistance from many Grandma's for many of the things used in the blessing. Matt's mom gave us the afghan that she made for Matt's blessing when he was a baby. My mom made the quilt as well, so we used the quilt and the afghan for Mason to be blessed on while daddy held him. Also the outfit he wore, my mom got that for him, but had some help embellishing it for Mason. The tatting on the outfit my mom added it. It was tatting that my Great-Grandma made for my Grandma's skirts over 100 years ago. My mom found it at Grandma's house when she was cleaning it and mom saved it. So the outfit had tatting that Mason's Great-Great Grandma made for Great Grandma that Grandma added and mommy loved! Don't you just love lineage!

Enjoy the pix!