1st Month

Jack is 1 month old today! It's hard to believe a month has passed already. It's been the greatest but hardest month of my life. I'm not used to getting 4 maybe 5 hours of sleep a night, although a couple of times I have gotten 6 total which is very exciting! It seems like the first three weeks were really tough on me, then I started learning what Jack needs, not what a book says he needs. When I started giving myself grace and realizing that while one thing may have worked for my friends baby it may not work for Jack things started going much smoother. I just chilled out and started enjoying learning about my son and his needs instead of trying to make him do things like so and so's baby or like this book said things should be done. He's started "talking" a lot more in the past couple of weeks, it's pretty cute. But then again pretty much everything he does we think is pretty cute! He had his 1 month check up yesterday and his pediatrician said he looks great. He's in the 25th percentile in height and the 10th percentile in weight. So that means that we are still feeding on demand or every 3 hours to get his weight up a little more. He weighed 8 lb 2 oz.

So here are a few things I've learned about my son in the past month that I can think of off the top of my sleep deprived brain!

1. He loves to sunbathe
2. He's very alert and loves to look around, especially at 3 in the morning
3. He's aggressive and easily impatient, so if I don't start feeding him when he starts telling me it's time then it takes a while to calm him down and even then feeding can be hard because he's so worked up. So I'm trying to learn to anticipate what his cried mean.
4. He loves baths
5. His pee can reach long distances and he has very good aim
6. The whole letting the baby cry themselves to sleep does not work with Jack. He will get himself so worked up that he will throw up and we have to feed all over again. So we are learning to soothe him to sleep and he sleeps SO much better and longer (the 5 S's really work with him). Plus I love holding and watching him!
7. He loves his swing
8. He's very active whether he's awake or sleeping (so swaddling really works great)
8. and my personal favorite...He prefers his mommy to anyone else. I told Ross to let me enjoy my few months of glory because soon Ross was going to be his favorite!

Here are a few pictures of each week of his life:
Week 4

Week 3

Week 2

Week 1

Meet Jack Isaac Brodie

Nursery In Progress

At the request of some here are pictures of the nursery so far. My mom is bringing the bedding so I'll post those pictures later on. Our theme is surfing (what else would it be!). The pictures on the wall are of Ross so our little boy can look at those and dream of being as good a surfer as his dad! I have letters to hang between the pictures but since we haven't decided on a name I thought I would wait and put holes in the wall AFTER we choose a name. I think it'll look really good once we get the surfer bedding in there. I'm also going to hang a shelf above the guest bed and put cute little animals and baby books on there, but since I didn't have much luck trying to hang it I'm going to let my dad hang it. All I managed to do was make two very big holes in the wall (which are nicely covered up with two picture frames at the moment). Ross will have to fix my damage before we move! Oh, and for the record, I did not paint the walls like that, it was our landlord. If we stay here after the summer I may have to paint over them.

9 days and counting...

So we have 9 days to go before our due date...little Brodie continues to be active and I think he's ready to come. We're ready for him to come! Everything is ready, my last day of work was Friday, and the nursery is ready. Ross has described this time as the anticipation of waiting to open Christmas presents...only we don't know when Christmas is!

New Year's Day Surfing

31 Days to go!!

Merry Christmas

I (Elizabeth) have taken over posting to our blog so you can see pictures of our little boy when he arrives. We hope you all had a Merry Christmas!