Life with a Newborn...

The last two weeks have once again been very low key! Can't do much with a newborn in the winter. I'm grateful for having a baby in the winter because I got two extra weeks home with him because of winter break. However, I would love to just go on a walk ya know? One day my friend, Jamie and I, planned to meet at the mall to walk. We planned to eat at panera first. So I rush to get us both ready, (which is a task these days let me tell you!) get him in the car, (only a couple minutes late) start driving down the road and realize I don't even have the stroller! I am still getting used to this "leaving the house" routine! Needless to say we had a nice lunch and he started crying towards the end anyways so I don't think the mall was going to happen. Plus Jamie, who has a baby 2 weeks younger than M, (his future wife hehe) didn't have her stroller either! 

I ordered Ms birth announcements and have been slowly working on addressing them and mailing them out. What normally would take me an afternoon has taken me a week because having a newborn is time consuming. People without kids might think oh they just sleep all day right? Well they do sleep a lot but they eat a lot and cry a lot and poop a lot too! Some days I look at the clock and its 2:00 in the afternoon and I haven't even taken a shower or eaten more than a muffin or a cookie (yes some mornings I grab a cookie for breakfast so I can eat it while nursing, hey they're oatmeal with flax seed so no judgement!)  I wonder where the time goes! Some may wonder how I keep up with writing blog posts. I myself wonder the same thing about moms who blog. But I start composing a post and work on it for a week or more until I'm ready to post it. And if sometimes the pictures are weird sizes it's because I use the blogger app on my phone and iPad and you can't change the size of the pictures. I definitely do not have a lot of time to sit at the desk with the desktop computer to blog. In fact right now and most of the time M is nursing while I "write". 

It's hard to do a lot of things these days. For instance cooking and/ or eating dinner used to be a breeze. Something I didn't think twice about before. Most nights when I sit down to eat, he starts crying. So Rob will hold him until I finish or if he's really screaming I will feed him then eat. 

One night I wanted to make a cauliflower cheesy casserole I found on Pinterest. So I start making it. Not soon after the cauliflower hit the pan, M started crying so I had to make Rob take over cooking. It turned out really good and he probably did a better job than I would have! 

It looks like Mac n cheese! Here's the recipe:

Around week 5 we started practicing sleeping in his crib so we can eventually transition him there full time (that sounds like a job hehe). He slept about an hour the first time! 

My sweet sleeping boy :) 

We think he had a growth spurt during his 5th week because there were a couple days that he wanted to eat every hour and if I put him down he would cry. But he slept for 5 hours at night so I didn't mind! The only time I find myself stressed or frustrated is when I'm sleep deprived. Which is happening less and less every day. 

I cherish every moment I have with him because he won't be this little forever and I have to go back to work in 4 weeks :( I'm staring at him right now as I write this post and I am in awe that I have this beautiful baby boy. I rocked him a lot longer last night because I know I will blink my eyes and he will be walking and talking. 

He often sleeps with his arms up! 

He is smiling and cooing a lot more! He loves his changing table and that's where he smiles the most! 

I love the first picture. I think it shows what he will look like when he gets older. His hair is out of this world! It looks like we put gel in it but we don't. After we wash it, it stays how we brush it! 

All of you with babies out there kiss and hug them extra long today!