It's a little hard to capture the excitement that surrounds the birth of a child... the miracle of new life... especially when you've barely had time to process it, because as anyone with a 3rd child knows... life goes on all too quickly. There are not quite as many lazy moments savoring the haze that is the month after you have a baby... soccer practice, gymnastics, school, work, all must go on....
As most of you know, our little man, Zachary, was born on April 7th... 6 days after Madison turned 6 and 5 days before I turned 29 (again) ha ha!!! He was very healthy and the scheduled c-section went well... the recovery proved to be a little harder for me... maybe because it was my 3rd c-section, maybe because my body was a little older??? In any event, my body took longer to recover and my emotions were up and down...
I basically feel normal again now... with a few tiny extra inches around my belly and some extra poundage on the hips... (yuck)
My days are the routine of nursing, nursing, and oh yeah, more nursing!
Macie is staying home with me while Madison is at kindergarten and they are both a blessing to me. The newness of brother has not worn off, they both delight in holding him and are always willing to run get a diaper or a burp cloth, or the all important pacifier (my first baby to ever take pacifier!) Steve started a new job 1 day (yes, you heard me) before Zachary got here, so he has had little time to stop and smell the roses. He is thankful to have a job and making sure he's doing a good job in light of all the lay offs going around.
I am planning to be off work for at least the entirety of Madison's summer break, and then we will reconsider financially if I can stay home. If this house would ever sell, it would help!!!
I have included pictures in order of:
our new dining room - we decided to dump the toy room for staging purposes (as if that may actually sell the house!!! my nursing time is often spent watching HGTV!!)
us saying goodbye to our pug, Harley... who we had to put to sleep last weekend, life was just getting too hard for him... :(
two pics of us on Memorial day weekend at an outdoor concert
the girls bathing Zachary
Zach on mother's day
Madison loving on Zachary
Macie holding a napping baby
Zachary's first bath
Macie, Zach, and Madison on Easter morning (5 days old)... he is still a little jaundice... We actually did make it to church!!!
of course there are millions more pictures to share... I get crazy with the camera, but it takes so darn long to upload them!!!
love to you all, the Whiddons!
2 comments:
So fun to see these pics, I guess I need to do some posting to! NOOOO...I had no idea that harley wasn't with us anymore. It looks like he left this world with a lot of love from his fam! Can't wait to see more!!
oops, too...not to!
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