Max is really enjoying stuffed animals. He recently discovered this darling cow from my friend Brittney that we had sitting on the a shelf in his room. He has to sleep with all of his stuffed animals and now a few of them are coming out of his room with him in the morning.
Landen happily holding Emmalyn
Getting ready to go out. (Thanks Aunt Tawny for the outfit!)
I was concerned about Max's small fever and the fact that he threw up last night. With Emmalyn being as young as she is, I didn't feel like I could take the risk of him having something really bad with her around. I was able to get a Dr. appt for him that morning. I still can't drive (both because of the c-section and the pain pills). Brittany generously drove me and the two kids. I was hoping to just have her and the baby stay in the car. Max's doc is always fast and we rarely wait long.
I have chosen to take Emmalyn to a different pediatrician than Max. I like Max's and he LOVES her but now that we live in a different part of town, it takes 20 minutes to get there and I don't want to be driving all that way with all the Dr visits you have with a new baby. So Emmalyn is going to the pediatrician that Brittany and a few of my friends use. He's just like 2 miles away and we can be there in 5 minutes. Peter would have preferred that both kids were at Max's doc but he's supporting my wishes. It's awkward though because Max's doc has seen me pregnant and I haven't told her that I wasn't going to be bringing the baby to see her. I couldn't avoid the conversation now because clearly I was no longer pregnant and the whole reason for bringing Max in with a mild fever and throwing up is because of keeping the baby healthy.
In the waiting room
Silly faces
We sent daddy this silly face
He sent this silly face back to us
Things didn't go as planned...Because of the C-Section I can't lift Maxwell. At all. So the nurse lifted him onto the examining table. But then he had to go poop. So he climbed down from the table by himself but I can't lift him onto the toilet (which means I have gotten out of wiping many poopy bums for the last little bit!). I called Britt and she came inside to help, which meant the baby came inside too. Max's Doc hurt herself doing an obstacle race the previous weekend so she couldn't lift Max either, Britt came to the rescue again and lifted Max onto the exam table. She just stayed in the exam room with the baby which meant that there was no way I could avoid the awkward conversation about why she wasn't seeing the same pediatrician as Max. The "talk" went okay though and Max's doc seemed to be okay. Anyway...it was a big stress to me that I had hoped to avoid forever. Oh well. The doctor found nothing wrong with Max. Not even a slight fever anymore. GRRRRR... The price we pay for peace of mind?
Since we were already out, we stopped at the nursery to get some flowers for my planters, some tomato plants for my topsy turvy planters, and we decided to get a strawberry plant too. I was glad to get this off my to-do list but man did I hurt afterwards!
That night we finally colored the eggs we had boiled for Easter dying. Max had fun with it and it didn't matter that it wasn't Easter anymore. :) We just did one color though. He drew on the eggs with crayons, which totally didn't work - at all! We realized after that it didn't work because we were using washable crayons. WHOOPS!
Not a very colorful or exciting bunch of eggs but Maxwell had fun.
Reading books at bedtime
Emmalyn throwing some gang signs?
Video - Emmalyn at about one week old
Yikes! Her umbilical cord fell off at just 10 days old. I was worried it might be too soon.
3 hours later it looked even more healed
Max was happy to get back to swimming lessons but wanted to make sure that Baby Sister was going to come watch him too. His coach told us that he was all excited to tell her and the coach in the class next to them about his Baby Sister. :)
She did. (That's Max floating in the pool on his back with his coach, Katie.)
She loves having her hands by her face and escapes from the swaddle just enough to get them up there.
Her first piece of mail - crazy! (Seeing it typed like that makes me go, are we sure we chose the right name? It looks so weird...)
All snuggled up in such a little ball. She loves to cuddle this way on your chest and rest her head on her hands. I could let her do it forever. I don't get much done because I am happy to just stay like this after she is done nursing.
I feel like I'm playing dress up with a doll.
Here's the outfit my Grandma and Grandpa Blank sent her.
I thought this was a funny way to fall asleep
Belly button 24 hrs after losing the cord - amazing!
We ventured out as a family for dinner for the first time.
Video - Max dancing to the good music (watch out, Peter!)
FINALLY!!!! At 11 days old, Maxwell finally wanted to hold his little sister. I was so excited! I jumped up and grabbed the camera. (And irritably noticed later that he was wearing Christmas pajamas. GRRRR, why tonight?!)
That lasted for about 5 seconds, then she grunted and he pushed her away saying "She's pooping..."
Sweet nursing baby lips - all plump, soft, and whitish
It took me a few days to get out and plant the flowers and I pushed myself more than I should have with lifting the dirt, etc but I wanted it done! One side of the garage...
...other side...
Emmalyn in her gorgeous blanket from Aunt Tawny and Uncle Alex
Sleeping baby - such cuteness
Peter took Max outside to play baseball and he did AWESOME. He quickly was hitting it, and not just off the tee but when dad pitched, too.
Video - playing t ball
The boys helped me plant the strawberry plant (they played happily in the dirt)
Notes I took during this week:
April 23 -
- Today I am down 20 lbs from my highest pregnancy weight - only 6 lbs to go to be back to the weight I was when I got pregnant. Not bad for 10 days!!!
- Maxwell knows that "butt" is a bad word in our house" however he has learned the sight word "but" and doesn't understand there is a difference between the two words. So he laughs whenever he reads the word "but". Last night I said "head butt" and he immediately heard it and called me out on it. It's amazing how aware he is of what is said and catches on to things like that!
- It's the day after his Dr visit and I know the doc didn't find anything but I still think he's a little sick.
- We are working with him on listening and doing what we ask/tell him to do and also not throwing things like his shows, the iPad, clothes... He has had a lot of timeouts for not listening. He is also starting to talk back a little too - UGH.
- Emmalyn is cluster feeding today which has meant it's been a rough day!! All I did all day was feed her, burp her, hold her, feed her, burp her, hold her. I think at one point by butt didn't leave the couch for 4 hours.
April 24 -
- Brittany took the boys to the library and when they were leaving I asked Max if he wanted to give Emmalyn a kiss goodbye. He said yes. So I knelt down with her and he gave her a kiss and then says (on his own) "I love you". So sweet!!! I then asked if wanted to do a family hug (where we do a big group hug) and he said yes but then he wouldn't touch her during the hug. Oh well, you win some, you lose some. (However, later that night, as mentioned above, he did finally say yes when we asked if he wanted to hold her.)
April 26 -
- The past 3 nights, we haven't been waking her up to eat at night every 3 hours. I have just been so exhausted, that I couldn't bring myself to do it. It meant that we would get almost 4-5 hours of sleep which is great!
- Peter doesn't feel like he connecting with her. The main thing he does with her is change her diapers when she gets up to nurse and get her undressed. Well, it's not a great way to connect because she screams like crazy during this process.
- I'm super tired but the stress of not accomplishing things is really wearing on me. I don't like that I have a "to-do" list and nothing is getting done.
- I've been on an emotional roller coaster. Like tonight...I found out that we weren't invited to a party for a kid Max's age in the neighborhood but a bunch of the other ladies/kids in the neighborhood were. It felt like high school and that I was not part of the cool "group". Looking back I know that's silly, and it's okay because even though I consider the mom to be a friend, Max and her daughter have never played together. Yet in the moment it was incredible discouraging and brought me down.
- I had two separate friends from work visit today and bring over food - Sarah and Stacy. I really appreciated it. I never understood how great it was to get meals brought over until I had Max and I vowed I'd never turn one down again! (I forgot this pledge and did turn one down once this week. It's hard when people offer to not automatically say, no...we are good... we don't need anything. Letting people help me is not something that I am good at. I hold tight to feeling and being perceived as capable.) They both brought tons so we are set on leftovers (even with the Mejias eating it too).
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