Being a mom is so nice

 
 
 

First Bath

 
 

1/12/11
Liam had his first bath on the 12th and he hated it but Ella was pretty excited. She would bathe him everyday if she could. It has been cold so i turned up the heat that day in anticipation of the bath but when i took Liam out of the water he was still starting to turn blue.

one month old

 

 

 

 

Liam is now over a month old. what a cool little boy. as long as i don't make him too cold when i am changing his diaper and i feed him when he wants milk, he is easy-going. He is showing us some smiles now. i have not had any luck at capturing one on film but i will keep working on it. He is very alert and is staying awake just a little more now. Ella is still enamored by him. She likes to include him in her play. Yesterday she was placing blocks in his hands so he could play with them. Very cute. Ella is growing nicely also. She is having more and more tantrums. Perhaps they are the because she is almost entering her two's but i think it is also because she is adapting to a new brother and less attention. Currently her favorite person is Nana and i am sure it is because when she goes over there Nana is all hers (since Liam and I stay here on Mondays and Tuesdays). Ella gave up her Baa (pacifier) last week. it wasn't willingly. She had been chewing on it and already ruined one. when i replaced it I let her know that if she chewed through the second one that there would not be anymore. well, a week later she had chewed through the second one and i had to have her throw it away. She did so but was so upset. She didn't cry at the time but she cried a lot on the following nights. i kept letting her know that she was now like mommy and daddy who didn't use a baa. She kind of bought it and now, a week later, she is doing fine although she is always looking at Liam's baa.

We are the proud parents of 2 now. We welcomed Liam Abraham Gillies into our family on 12/29/10. Seven pounds eleven ounces and 20 1/4 inches long. How beautiful he is. The labor was a short 4 hours long. Again it was very painful and i did it without an epidural but it was amazingly fast. Too fast even for the doctors to prepare as they were asking me to wait until they put their gloves on when i was saying i needed to push. Two pushes and he was out. Painful but easy.
We chose the middle name just a week or so ago. Abraham because he is the reason Carl and I met and it went well with Liam. We just have to make the name legal through Social Security and the birth records.

Nothing to do but Wait

i am not working. nor is Carl (well, outside the home). We are just waiting for little boy to be born. Ella is home as well since we have taken her out of daycare for 2 weeks during the holidays. Little boys due date was yesterday, well sort of. that date was based off the first ultrasound i had. the second ultrasound gave me a date of 12/23. Carl wanted the boy born today because its the shortest day of the year and their was a solar eclipse last night. two events that haven't coincided in over 5000 years or something. i just don't want to be in the hospital on Christmas day. i don't want a christmas baby. A new years baby would be fine. Medical insurance would cover costs and we would have a chance of being on the news (and winning all sorts of freebies) if baby boy happened to be the first baby of the year. of course, if he isn't born until then i will be kind of bored and anxious with waiting. i have a doctors appointment tomorrow morning. perhaps there will be some progress (dilation, cervical softening) then.

Ella from 01/10 to mid 11/10