Aunties Love

I feel like every time Bryson takes a nap he wakes up bigger. This little man is growing so fast! We have a box full of out grown stuff :( Sad.
Our weekend was great! Brian's sister and sister-in-law came up to visit from Tacoma, WA. This was their first time meeting Bryson and boy was he spoiled! Lots of loves until the next visit. We will be heading down to visit the rest of the family in March and by then he will be 3months old. Geez!!
Lots of smiles and working on the little laugh over our weekend.

Snuggles

Wrapping you in a blanket, picking you up in my arms and rocking you back and forth while I hum songs to you and watch you fall asleep...
I cried a little the other night while feeding him realizing how fast he is growing while his small little feet hung off the pillow.  These are the moments I want to take in, the moments I want to know I made all the right choices and the moments that I remember when I am waving bye as he takes his last box of stuff and walks out of the house one day...
6 weeks old and already full of smiles, snuggles and coo's.

A breakthrough!

I feel like it happened overnight. Weeks of fussiness, gas pain, crying colic baby, Bryson is smiling and a happy baby! Thank God! He was wearing me out. We are sleeping three hours strait at night and going right back to bed after feedings and diaper changes. I am in love with him! He is so handsome and responding which gives me more energy to keep going. I am blown away by how fast he is growing and, he seems to be way past his age. B is happy that on the weekends and nights after work he can come home to a happy baby rather then a fussy crying one. I felt bad for him because Bryson would be good all day then fussy when B would get home. Poor guy. Bryson is 5 Weeks old!

Jenn came up for the weekend to visit, YA! We had a nice lazy relaxing weekend. She was last up here for the birth and finally got to come back up to see baby.

He likes his bath times with Dad and snuggle times with Mom.

One and a half more months and we get to take his first airplane ride to go meet his new cousin!

One Month Old

Looks who's One month old!




















This little fella is a busy boy. Forget the swaddle He always has to have his hands and legs moving. Already a month old! Time sure does fly and I am ambivalent about it. I am ready for a more closer connection with responses, ready to sleep more during the night, love watching him mature, but also sad when daily I feel like I am putting his clothes in a too small box. :( 
Everything is going well we are just working through a little digestive/gas at night. Its sad when your baby cries and you fell helpless. B is a big help with Bryson. Its so nice to have a partner, during the late nights when I am up with him I have so much respect for the single parents out there.
I asked B the other day if he had any idea it was going to be this hard... He said No and I 100% agreed! Totally worth it but wow.
Bryson is starting to focus on your face and even if its "gas" that makes them smile I still love it! He sleeps for 2-3hrs a night between feedings and even has his nights of being social. I find myself shopping online at 2am from my iphone. Oh and by the way WHAT did mothers do before iphones?
Only 8 More weeks till we get to meet our sweet Cora in Anchorage!

Our little handsome man is already 3 weeks old!

Birth Story (Part 2)...

After being admitted I was given a shot of Morphine to help me get a little rest. It made my contractions 10min apart which was amazing! Laying around trying to get some sleep 5 o'clock came around and I was checked again to see if I made any progress. Eight hours with a progress of.... still a 4!!!! COME ON!!! By 5:30pm my water was broke and contractions starting within minutes VERY strong. At 6:00pm I got an Intrathecal and had the best hour you could imagine! No pain, an amazing hour of rest. At 7:15pm the contractions were strong and the nurse wanted to check me to see if I made any progress. After her first check she had a funny look on her face and asked another nurse to check me. I went from 4 centimeters dilated at 5:00pm to 7:15pm and the nurses couldn't even feel my cervix. The baby dropped down so fast with in those few hours the nurses were shocked and started getting things ready for a baby. My family was on their way to the hospital and B and I just watched as the nursing staff prepared for our little ones arrival. I was still pretty numb from the Intrathecal so once the pushing started around 9:15pm it took a good 45min for me to really get a good system down and know what my body needed to help get this baby out. It took about an hour and forty five minute of pushing before we had our little handsome man in our arms. I was put on oxygen to help Bryson because of the stress from the contractions and the length of pushing he was getting worn out. 11:04pm Bryson Kenneth was born into a room full of family and friends.  B and I, My two sisters, parents and best friend were there for the support and arrival of the first grand baby on my side of the family. Bryson weighed 8lbs 14oz and a whopping 21.5" long! The midwife laid him on my chest while we waited for the umbilical cord to stop pulsing before B cut it. He was beautiful!
Bryson was having a hard time breathing so the nurses took him and put him on oxygen and had to monitor him in the nursery. B went with him and I stayed and got taken care of by the midwife.
About 2:15am I was moved to another room and got to see my son. There we were the three of us... a family. I was so exhausted and so light headed from lots of blood loss it took a good day to get back to feeling balanced. Those two days in the hospital were a blur. We had loved ones come visit and Drs. and staff but the whole time I felt like it was one big blur.
Its been two weeks since Bryson was born and its still taking some time to get a routine down. It takes forever to get ready to go anywhere and a shower still feels amazing! I still miss my sleep but everything is worth it. He is handsome, adorable, cuddly but most of all ours.