
Sam was one month old yesterday!! Happy Birthday Samster!
J took this picture about a week ago. Every time I look at this picture I giggle because it looks EXACTLY LIKE JEREMY. Seriously, I swear this child is part mine even though it doesn’t look like any of my genetics made it into him. He is pretty cute though…
Meanwhile, Sam continues to be a heartstealer. We’re beginning to get to know him a little bit and he’s quite a bit mellower than we expected giving his first few minutes in the world. At this point, in classic newborn fashion pretty much all he does is sleep (lots of sleeping), eat (LOTS of eating – every two to three hours), and poop (lots of that too). He loves to be held and snuggled and when he does fuss a little cuddle usually puts him right.
Samster – wearing the same little outfit that Clare came home in. On Clare it was HUGE, but it barely fit him in length and the little feet hardly contained his long monkey toes. What a difference an inch and over a pound make in fitting baby clothes. We joke that Sam’s newborn outfits will fit for about a week.
I started having contractions on Thursday night at about dinner time, but they were light and not very regular. Still, I kind of had a feeling that things were in motion so I told Jeremy to clear his Friday schedule. We had dinner, put Clare to bed, and I texted our doula that things might be happening. I went to bed early, but by then my contractions were light but consistently about ten minutes apart. I was able to sleep between them for a few hours. By midnight they were about eight minutes apart and J was timing them on his contraction app that he downloaded (seriously). They were also getting stronger. For some reason we didn’t really believe that labor had really started and kept putting off calling anyone. Finally at about 1 am I got in the shower to deal with stronger contractions and we called the midwife at the hospital, our doula, and my parents to come stay with Clare. By the time everyone arrived, we were packed and we were ready to go to the hospital it was about 2:30. My contractions were about three minutes apart and strong and my water broke in the garage on the way to the car.
We spent the weekend finally finishing the nursery. Hooray! J mentioned that he felt like we were on a home design TV show – I was the designer giving instructions and he was the carpenter executing my vision. But the vision is 90% executed and I love it. It’s the simple, modern nursery that I wanted. Unfortunately the room is small so getting pictures of the whole thing proved to be a challenge, but you can put them together in your head.
The rocking chair and balloon lanterns! The lanterns turned out great (Thanks Mom and Dad) and I’m debating putting strings under them to make them even more “balloon-esque” or just leaving them as-is. I think the baby will love looking at them though. I also pulled up a bunch of the baby toys from storage and they’re in the blue bin. We’ve stacking the “baby books” on the trunk for our bed time reading to the little guy. The cute elephant blanket is from Grandma T!