One Month Old! (Yesterday...)

Our guy was officially one month old yesterday. I meant to make this post yesterday but apparently we were too busy partying and I didn't get a chance to :) 
It feels like forever since I was in the hospital almost as if it never happened. It feels like Wesley has always been a part of our family and our family routine. Yet I still can't believe he is already a month old. I read something online (which always means it is 100% true right?) that said babies are medically a newborn for 28 days and after that they are considered an infant. Going by that he is no longer considered a newborn, which is crazy. He still fits in his newborn clothes though so I can't be too sad yet ;)
So far Norah and Wesley have been completely opposite babies. Even strange things like Norah being smaller weight wise but she outgrew newborn clothes at this point and Wesley still fits in them just fine. The way they nurse is different, including the frequency and duration being very different from each other. Wesley in general is a lot more high needs/maintenance and all around more dramatic than Norah ever was. I'm not entirely sure what that means we have in store for us, yikes! Norah took forever to lift her head on her own (seriously she was a few months old before she did) but Wesley is already hard a work with that. Norah never cared much about a dirty diaper (and actually she still doesn't, which I worry will make potty training hard...) but Wesley lets you know that he's ready for a dry butt - in fact the kid won't eat unless he has a total fresh diaper it seems. I can understand that though ;) Norah was always content just sitting around in her bouncer and preferred to not be held all that much, she never was much of a snuggler as an infant. Wesley on the other hand is a great snuggle bug! I love it! Except it can be a bit tough to snuggle him when it's just me at home when I'm chasing after a certain adorable 21 month old that I know. 
It's amazing to me that they can be so completely different. Even in their complete differentness (hm newly created word via me?) they are both equally perfect. I'm so excited to see them grow together and all of the adventures we have coming our way :)

One month old and pretty stinking awesome. 

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New Beginnings!

I'm so excited to get back into the swing of things on my blog. I thought for sure I'd log on to blogger and get a notification that my blog had filed a formal abandonment charge against me or something. Since having Wesley my times has been a bit occupied (who knew?!). I thought I'd be able to blog while Norah napped and Wesley being a newborn would of course be napping. Well most days he chooses to have his alert time right as Norah goes down for a nap... fun for me of course, but doesn't make for a very productive blogger. I'm really wanting to build in some more time for it though now that we are adjusting to our new life as a family of four. 
So as far as some exciting things coming up, I have a Moby Go review that I will be working on soon. I was so excited to hear that Moby came out with a carrier for bigger children and even more excited when they sent me one to review. Be on the look out for that review in the next week. 
Another exciting thing is a new blog header. I just found out last night actually that the blogger at Life As Their Mom is going to be doing an illustration for me. I've seen a few of her illustrations and they are incredibly adorable! I can't wait to be sporting my own. 
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One Week As a Family of Four

"I got baby!" Norah babbles A LOT but she has been a bit slow on actual words and prior to Wesley being born she hadn't strung any words together at all. She was mostly just saying "Bite" "No" basic simple words. Suddenly when Wesley was born she started to very obviously say, "I got baby!" and "It's baby!" When visiting at the hospital every time a nurse would walk into the room she would point at Wesley and say, "I got baby" You know... in case they didn't know ;)
She's a great big sister. She is trying to help and does a good job for he most part (even though sometimes it appears that she is trying to suffocate him). Like I imagined it is hard to give her the same amount of attention but she seems to be doing fine. The only attention issue so far is sometimes when I'm nursing him she tries to literally climb on top of me and as you may know it's a bit tough to nurse and have another kid trying to sit on your lap. 
As far as Wesley goes, he's pretty much awesome. Mostly his only job right now is to eat, sleep, poop and look cute and he's doing well in all of those areas so he's rockin' this whole earth side thing. 
Norah is much happier at the doctor when it isn't for her. Ignore her messy hair... it was an accomplishment just getting to the Pedi. 

I can't believe he is already a week old today. This time last week I had my epidural and was waiting patiently to be fully dilated. On one hand I can't believe it was only a week ago that he was still in my belly and it feels like he's always been here - but then I also can't believe it's already been a whole week and it's went by so fast and I still look over and can't believe he is already here. 

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