We're here...

Just exhausted.

Judah is up every 3 hours, more often during the day, so Mommy's not getting much rest.  But I wanted to get a couple of things down before I forget them (which happens easily nowadays...)

~Judah's cord stump fell off on Tuesday!  I was changing his diaper at church, and it was hanging on by a thread.  A little nudge and pop!  Off it came!  Yay!  Tomorrow (Monday, the 29th) he'll have his first REAL bath!

~Did I mention he's up every three hours?  This is new for me.  Jeremiah was up every 3-4 hours.  But he was our first, so we were able to nap all day and all night.  Jesslyn was in the NICU for the first 8 days, so I only had to wake up to pump every 3-4 hours at night (usually 4....) and my parents were here to help take care of Jeremiah, so I had more rest then, too.  Plus, once she DID come home, she was already sleeping in 5 hour blocks.  So this whole 3 hours or less thing has been rough of Mommy.  Hopefully, it starts to spread out a little more.

~Jeremiah and Jesslyn argue over who gets to hold "Baby Judah" next.  :)  They're both head of heels, STILL!  Although last Friday, I had them all by myself for the first time all day, and they really gave me a hard time.  Not a good day.  Saturday was better.  Sunday, less so.  Here's to a fine Monday!

~Jesslyn walks around the house singing the "Baby Judah" song, which is just his name over and over again in a sing song kind of way.  :)

~Both Jeremiah and Jesslyn ask, "Where's Baby Judah?" as soon as they wake up, or as soon they return home from being away from him.  It's really sweet.

~Jesslyn loves being Mommy's little helper when it's diaper change time!  Her favorite job is throwing out the diapers.  :)  She really gets quite a kick out of it.

~Judah smiles a lot in his sleep, but has yet to "smile" really while awake.  It's so neat to see how different the kids are from each other!

~Judah still wakes up with "goopy eyes" and I spend most of our nursing time wiping them with my thumbs.  It really bugs me, and I'm sure he appreciates it, though I don't think it's ever caused him to complain.

~Judah went to church for the first time when he was 5 days old.  And no one could believe we were there.  :)  Okay, confession time, while I did want to go to church, I really just wanted to show him off.  :)  I'm a proud Mama, what can I say.

~Physically, this has been the easiest pregnancy and delivery to recover from.  I feel like a million bucks!  A very tired million bucks.

~And I don't remember being this forgetful either.  Though I guess that makes sense, in a way....  And you should see how many times I've had to backspace to re-type a word, or allow spell check to fix my errors... it's like every other word.  Annoying.

~Jeremy's going back to work full time this week, and it's a little scary..... I hope my passion for my children is matched by my ability to manage all three at the same time!  At least I don't need to worry about the house much--Jeremy's agreed to have our cleaning crew come weekly for the time being.  If only they did laundry...

~"Three, 3 and Under" is hard!  I'm waiting for it to get easier.......

~I'm so thankful for all the friends we have that brought us meals.  They've been such a blessing, and a moment of sanity in an otherwise chaotic day.

~I've been typing this, waiting for Judah to wake up to eat so I can go to sleep, but I'm beginning to think he's not going to wake up anytime soon.... So I'm going to go wake him up so he can go back to sleep and I can do the same.

~Night.

Some more Judah pics....

I keep pulling up our blog intending to write and update more.  But then I get distracted or tired or just don't care to do so!  But I'll try.  :)  I've been updating quite a bit via email and Facebook, so it almost seems redundant to update here.  But, like I said, I'll try.  :)

For now, enjoy some more Judah pics (since the only one here is just chubby-face Judah and not really "Sweet Baby Judah"  :)

About 45 minutes after birth.  Our midwife, birth assistant and student nurse-midwife went downstairs to write up some paperwork while we got some family time.  So this was roughly... 2:15 a.m.  Jeremiah had woken up from a bad dream, and insisted on sleeping in "Mommy's bed!"  So he ran in, jumped into bed on Jeremy's side, pulled the covers up and proceeded to try to fall asleep, totally oblivious to the new baby.  :) Jeremy asked him, "Umm... Jeremiah?  Did you see the new baby??" and his eyes popped right open!  Got over that bad dream fairly quickly after that.  :)

During his newborn exam.  I think he had just been measured at this point.  Lotta baby!  :)

Booty shot!  :)  They were checking his back and bum for.... something!  I think he looks bigger here than in person.  At least his bum doesn't look that big during diaper changes!

Almost done with his exam!  Just needed to put some drops in his eyes, get him dressed, and done he was!

Daddy got to be the first to dress him!  He looks so tiny when his Daddy holds him.  :)

The next morning.  Jeremiah had not forgotten about his new "Baby Judah" and just loves to hold him!  He's such a proud big brother.

Kookie giving kisses to her new baby brother.  Awww....

Okay, I lied, these were just birth pics.  I thought I had more on here, but I guess they all went directly to Facebook.  Will work on some real pics tomorrow!

In case you haven't heard....

Baby J is here, and HE has a name!

Judah Samuel was born on March 8th at 1:29 a.m.  It was a long, annoying labor (26.5 hours!) but once he was ready to come, come he did!  Once I got the urge to push, around 1:26 a.m., it was all downhill and he was born 3 minutes later, absolutely perfect!  No air bag puffs (Jeremiah) or oxygen tanks needed--just Daddy to catch him and Mommy to hold him!  I was never so glad to be done being pregnant!  :)

Jeremiah and Jesslyn are absolutely smitten!  They can't stop talking about "Baby Judah".  It's so sweet.

That's all I've got time for right now--off to cuddle with the little man!  :)

Crappy Day

Not worthy of a "Daily Shots" post.

It started out rough, with Jesslyn sprinkling her chocolate milk over most of the upstairs (not intentionally, she's just a little sloppy when she drinks.)  Then I went downstairs to put in a bunch of chocolate-stained clothing in the wash only to discover the floor in the laundry room was flooded.  Sump pump was on the fritz. Sigh....

Things got a little better, as we had playgroup this morning at a friends house.  Of course, Jeremiah couldn't let it be all peaches and cream, and decided to pitch a fit anytime I said something he disliked.  Sigh.....

Some how, a trip to the bathroom by me resulted in happy, compliant kids!  Both were happy to get in the car to go home, after a quick stop at McDonald's for lunch.   Jeremy was able to come home after his meeting to figure out the problem in the basement and work on fixing that, so things were looking up.

Then... Jeremy flushed the toilet.  And what was going down came back up in the basement.  All over the floor.  Turns out, it wasn't the sump pump!  Cue frantic phone calls to available plumber.....

Sigh.................

Turns out, some of the shrubs in front of our house like the taste of human sewage.  So much so, their roots grow WAAAAAAY down to the pipes that carry it out to the sewer, grow INto the pipe, where they can feast to their hearts content.  And eat.  And eat.  To the point where no more could then flush through, because THE PIPE WAS CLOGGED WITH ROOTS!

Sigh....................................

So we have two options.  Spend 1/3 of a mortgage payment or a whole mortgage payment to get the dang thing fixed.  Luckily, I'm not fond of the idea of having a back hoe on my front lawn when we're expecting a baby any day, so we'll probably go with the less expensive, though more temporary solution.

Hopefully tomorrow is a better day!