Monday August 22!
*(I'll be caught up soon I promise and will start posting in the present tense again ;))*
Brady man was 2 weeks old on the 22nd! His second week of life was the "adjustment" week. Daddy went back to work (wahh!) and Mommy got some help from Gramma during the days so as not to pass out from extreme tiredness. Brady adjusted just fine :) He seems happy and healthy! His umbilical cord even fell out this week! Thankfully, Daddy had him at the time because that still kind of grosses me out! But now we just have a cute little belly button, no more grossness! yahoo! Brady visited the doctor again on Friday the 19th at 11 days old and was a bulky 8 lb. 13 ounces ... up 14 ounces in a week! Mommy, ever the rule follower, was waking Bradester up every 3 hours to feed -- or attempting to, by the end of the week he was as disinterested in waking up at 1am as Mom was! -- but lucky for us the doctor said he gained so much weight this week that we didn't have to do that anymore. We're officially on Brady's schedule now! And I am thrilled to report that Friday night the kid slept for 5 hours and the next night (or maybe it was two nights later) he slept .... 6 hours!! Good job Brady!! That means Mom gets like 4-5 hours of sleep at a time! Which is a-mazing. :) (He doesn't do that every night, sometimes he's back to his 2-3 hour feeding schedule, but I'll take what I can get!)
What else did Brady do during his second week of life?? He met some of his cousins!! Lucky kiddo! His cousin Kyle came over with Aunt Megan and Grandpa and Grandma, and while I'm sure the boys will love love each other in a couple months/years ... they were kind of disinterested in each other right now haha. Brady spent the time sleeping on Grandma's shoulder and Kyle spent the time playing with Brady's "big boy" toys :) Then on Saturday, Brady braved his first thunderstorm and got to meet his new cousin Caroline Urbin! She is 6 weeks older than him and it was so cute to see them together, even though they didn't even know they were meeting. Caroline's parents don't live in state though so the next time we see Caroline, the kids will probably love playing with each other! Lastly, on Sunday, Brady's older cousin Samantha came over to meet him. Watching her hold him makes me feel incredibly old as I was leaving for college when she was born!! Eek!! Brady, please don't grow that fast!!
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| Brady meets Kyle! |
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| Brady meets Caroline! |
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| Brady meets Samantha! |
I took the little man out for a long walk during the week and we stopped at a baby store (where he got his first little sun bonnet aka fishing hat!) and the cashier asked how old he was. When I told her he was 8 days, she was amazed! She thought for sure he was a month or two! My big boy! (She also told me she never sees new first time moms out of the house within the first week so I'm pretty proud of myself! Not only out of the house, but dressed and refreshed!) Brady also let us -- EAT OUT -- in the neighborhood!! On one of our night walks, Scott and I got super ambitious and decided to eat outside at a neighborhood joint and Brady actually slept the whole time!! It's so nice to not have to change our entire life, but rather, add to it :) I couldn't be happier on where we are at as a little family :)
But seriously, can you believe the kid was 2 weeks old already?! :(
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| Brady Scott -- 2 weeks old! |
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| Just watching Da Bears game with Daddy! |
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