What a cutie!

Today was a good day!

Yes, I will repeat that the title of the post. Today was a good day!!!!! For the first time in a long time I feel great at the end of the day. I'm still exhausted, but it's a -I've finally accomplished a few things today- exhausted.

I'm behind in uploading pics and all I can say is that beautiful little boy to the left of the screen is the reason why. We started calling him "bean" when I was pregnant and we still call him bean today. Sometimes it's angry bean, butter bean, string bean, spoiled bean, little bean, poopy bean.

I had my first post pardem visit and I'm happy to say that I've lost ALL my baby weight PLUS 8lbs. I was ecstatic until I was sitting in the room and I could hear another baby's heartbeat on the doppler in another room. Then I started to cry. Gosh how I loved being pregnant and I loved to hear Jacob's heartbeat. Perfect timing as the doctor came in at that moment and decided to prescribe me some "happy" pills when she saw me bawling. Everything looks great and I'm happy to report that "IF" and that's a capital, bold, IF in quotes, "IF" we decide to have baby #2, I still have a shot at a natural birth. Phewwwwwwww! While at the moment I'm not ready for any more, everything I've read and heard once you've had a C-Sect, any following births must be done the same way.

Milestones for Jacob. We actually had an Indian Summer and I was able to take him out in the stroller for a walk. He fell asleep and stayed that way for the whole time. A couple days later, Daddy & I took him for a walk and he stayed awake. Jacob experienced his first shower and seems to be okay with them. They are much easier than bath's for the time being. He's sleeping longer during the night and is currently eating about 3.5oz every 3 hours or so (except overnight) He's growing so much that I actually had to pack away his newborn clothes. He does have one pair of pants that still fit. His smiles light up the room. I love to make him smile. It melts my heart. He is also starting to coo a little, which is nice verses the wailing cries I'm used to.

So why was it a good day? This week, finally, we've started to bond. He's a little wiseguy and I think he's realized that he can't intimidate me anymore. He doesn't cry now when Daddy leaves. We snuggle and take naps together. It's great. Today, I was able to get laundry done and go through the piles of coupons that were waiting to be clipped. I was able to pump twice and he didn't cry one bit. Even though it wasn't much, I feel like I accomplished a lot. I hope tomorrow is just as good.

Happy Belated Halloween

Things are so much more difficult to get done when there are children involved. haha. Obviously now we are into November and I meant to get this done for Halloween and as you can see, here we are.

The orange outfit was a gift from a friend that I work with and Jacob is only a few days old in that picture. Wish I had orange mittens for the occasion but I didn't. Thanks Trixie, the outfit is so cute. The day we took that pic was the day of his first doc appt. The nurses and receptionists loved it as well and thought he was so adorable. I wasn't going to get him a Halloween costume, but when we were in BRU and I saw all the little costumes I wanted one so badly. We didn't have much of a selection, either a cat or a pumpkin came in his size. Daddy didn't want him to be a pumpkin, so we ended up with the cat. When we (daddy) tried to put it on him, the thing only unzipped 1/2way but I swore in the store it unzipped all the way like a onesie. We had such a difficult time stuffing him into it and I was angry at whomever would design a costume that way. Needless to say Jacob was not a happy camper. So we snapped a few pics and when we went to take it off Daddy discovered if you tugged on the zipper, it really did unzip all the way. I wanted to put it back on him on another day and get more pics when he wasn't crying, but again hasn't happened and it probably won't. I'm such a slacker.