1st Mother's Day!

I feel so loved!

My husband got me an hour long massage and we had lunch with his parents.

Baby boy got me up bright and early. We spent time and played together for a couple of hours. He's learned to smile & coo & "talk"! Hubby's alarm started going off surprisingly early. He went to the kitchen while I went to feed baby.

My mother (in law) showed up. Hubby brought me breakfast in bed and told me that we had to get going... I found out that grandma was going to be watching baby while we went out for a few hours. This was bitter sweet being as I have never been away from baby for his entire existence.

Hubby hasn't been able to surprise me with a gift yet because I always catch on, but baby has been a great distraction: he got me this time! Hubby was very pleased with himself. We got to the massage parlor and we were treated with a wonderfully relaxing couple's massage. Heated beds, velvety covers, soothing music, a full body massage!

On our way over to the grandparent's hubby explained that the couple's massage was truly a day early gift for our anniversary. For mother's day I have another hour long professional massage for just me when ever I want another time to relax.

Baby and I were reunited! We ate with the grandparents then headed over to the great-grandparent's place. Everyone loves baby! We all got to fawn over him.

Hubby and I have been married an entire year now. It has been the shortest, happiest, fun filled year of my life! It is absolutely amazing that I married my best friend and we created a new life together in just one short year. Our wedding day was the happiest day of my life so far (having baby was the most painful, also one of the happiest, but my wedding day was my absolute happiest thus far - there's a lot of life to live still!)

For our anniversary baby gave us the bed to ourselves. He slept all night in his swing. (Which lead to him taking his first bottle so he wouldn't drown in my let down.)

My little family is so amazing! All of my boys adore me and I feel their love every moment of every day. They've made my first mother's day and first anniversary really wonderful (so far) I couldn't ask for more!

One month

Dexter is amazing, cute, and adorable! He's chunked up quite a bit, now weighing 10 pounds with chubby chipmunk cheeks and a double chin. He has pretty good head control already and can lift his head on his own. He's very observant, just as bright eyed as when he was born. When Dex is on his tummy he kicks and wiggles, he's able to scoot himself a few inches. Also, he's out of newborn diapers and into size one! Dexter loves his swing, he spends a lot of time in it & falls asleep quite easily with the movement.  He's started cooing to communicate (as well as ear piercing shrieks & cries.) Dex is also able to stand, with assistance.

Adjusting to being a new mother is quite the adventure! Dexter is letting me sleep through most of the night already. He only wakes me up once or twice during the night. As a new mom I'm so terrified of breaking him. I'm paranoid of everything! His stool looked off colored to me, so now I'm off dairy and soy. The doctor said that his little digestive system may not be able to process the proteins that are passed into my breast milk. Hopefully this will help! After a couple of weeks with no dairy, his stool has started to be the yellow mustardy color that it's supposed to be and I hope it helps his fussing! He's been a pretty mellow baby except at night when he just fusses up a storm and is hard to console. Though, I also think he fusses to fight sleep. There's just to much to see and do to sleep!!!  I understand that well, I remember fighting sleep as a little, I didn't want to miss anything.

 

I'm still on an emotional roller coaster. Some days are better than others. And sometimes I will just cry with Dexter when he fusses and I can't figure out what he needs. I've gotten a new body from pregnancy, that's taking some getting used to. I don't like it some of the time, there are moments I wish I had my pre-pregnancy body back.

Hubby just loves the roller coaster! Some moments I will be loving on him and so happy, then a few moments later I'll be mad about something. He's been quite wonderful about it though and very understanding when I fly off the handle or just break down in tears.

Dexter and I both love going on walks around our condo loop and baby wearing. Those are our happy moments and we enjoy bringing dad and our pup out on our walks too.