On Friday I aired up Owen's Elephant pool that Grandma Martin bought him. He went in it last year, but he was too young to really play in it yet. This year is a totally different story. Owen loves the water in general. When I got it all aired up I put water in it from the hose and I thought we would wait for it to warm up before Owen went in it. No, no, no...Owen decided he should play it in right then. I had to hurry up and strip him down before he went in with all his clothes on. He was so cute. I kept his diaper on since I don't have any of those Little Swimmers diapers yet and by the time he was done play the thing weight 10lbs since it soaked up so much water. Owen had tons of fun though and Jack was just chillin' out in the Moby Wrap fast asleep.
On Thursday we decided to give Jack his first bath at home. Even though his umbi had fallen off a few days before we still wanted to wait a couple more days to make sure it was really all healed up. We used the little bathtub that we bathed Owen in when he was a baby. Jack did really good, he didn't cry at all. Owen screamed during his first bath. But that's Jack, he's just a very mellow guy all around. Since Michael and I were focusing on Jack we didn't want Owen to feel left out so we put up the new Johnny Jump Up so Owen could play in it. He had a great time!
I love this Old Navy outfit that Jack is wearing. It says, "Caution: Extremely Cute"!
It's amazing at how quickly you forget how small they start out. I remember looking at Owen a few days before Jack was born and thinking how tiny he was. He is still small for his age, but now in comparison to Jack he's HUGE!!!
This is the first time Owen actually got to hold Jack. He wouldn't put his arms around him, but Jack is leaning on Owen's legs.
This time around it's taking me SO much longer to recover from my C-Section. I remember with Owen I felt pretty great after just a week. Jack is almost 3 weeks old and I'm still hurting quite a bit. The other day I drove with my mom to Sam's Club and I was dying by the time I got there. She ended up driving home. When Michael got home he told me I wasn't suppose to drive for 6 weeks or so. I thought I could once I was off my super strong pain meds. It's amazing at how you really do use your stomach muscles when you drive. Seems weird!!! Today is my first day with no friends or family here to help me, that is until Michael gets home tonight. It's been so great having the help, but I am excited to develop a routine for just me, Owen and Jack.
I saw this on someone else's blog and thought it would be fun to share...
My frig...stocked with food that friends and people from church brought over and the weird looking gallon of milk that Costco has now. Does anyone else hate the way that new container is shaped???
My sink...no I didn't not clean it before hand knowing I would be posting these pictures. I'm weird...I actually really enjoy doing dishes! I try to do them everyday after breakfast. I think it's something about the organization of it all.
My shoes...organized in our awesome walk-in closet that is in our master bathroom. I so enjoyed putting this closet together when I was pregnant with Owen.
My laundry room (closet)...the washer and dryer that came with the house were as old as the house and I refused to do laundry in them so Michael let me go out and buy these front loaders at Sears.
My toliet...in the master bathroom. You can totally tell we have kids since there are nursing pads on the back of the toliet, a safety latch so Owen can't splash around and if you look real close you can see that we actually had to remove the handle part that you flush the toliet with because Owen was flushing it over and over and over. No worries though we can still flush it it just takes a little more work though.
Owen loves to practice the skills he learns over and over and over. Sorry about the neck ache you'll get from watching this.
Father's Day ended up being more like Owen Day instead. We slept in until 9:15 which was so awesome! After breakfast we got ready and went out shopping. I was so pleased to get out of the house for something other than Dr's appointments. We to Target and got a few necessities, Toys R Us to get Owen a couple toys and Babies R Us to get diapers. We also went out to Applebee's for lunch. Owen's lunch was pretty odd - half a Nutri Grain bar, one onion ring, half a piece of bacon and about 20 french fries.
Owen took a nap when we got home and then we played with his new toys. He got squirt guns and a bubble gun to play with outside and then he got a whole Home Depot Power Tool set to play with inside. We had so much fun playing with him! It was a great Father's Day!
Can you see Jack? This is my new Moby Wrap I bought. It completely contains him. He loved it! He slept in there for over an hour. In fact I ended up getting too hot and had to take him out. He wasn't too happy about that!
It amazes me at how relaxed I am this time around. With Owen I was always paranoid that he was going to stop breathing if I left the room or he was going to starve if I didn't feed him exactly 3 hours after his last feeding. This time it's so different. Like right now Jack is in the other room on our bed fast asleep and I'm sure he's just fine. Sometimes he eats after 3 hours sometimes after 4. It's no big deal. I also remember thinking I should put Owen down because I don't want him to be spoiled with me holding him all the time. What was I thinking!!!! I love snuggling Jack and having him sleep on my chest. This is time is too short and too precious to miss out on those things. Now don't think that I didn't hold Owen and snuggle him I did, but I remember just being a little more strict about it than I am with Jack. It really is nice taking it easy and just enjoying this time.
Nice scratch huh!!! Poor Jack scratched himself while I was changing his diaper. Later on I tried to clip his nails so it wouldn't happen again and his little fingernails started bleeding. Poor guy! Michael suggested that I try an emery board instead and that worked pretty good. For the most part he is swaddled so his little hands don't have access to mutilate his face.
