Chop chop

Between all of the grunting sounds and the amount of gas, I have a true boy here! My boy also has a mini mullet! It's funny, his hair in the back is so long that it practically touches his shoulders. I was talking about cutting it and Kim thought I was being ridiculous wanting to cut a newborn's hair...until I showed her! If my mom brings her haircutting scissors with her tomorrow, I'm chopping it. I'll take a picture first though! I must admit I do like to run my fingers through his long hair, maybe I'll hold off on the chop a little bit longer. :)

Easter Sunday

Here are some pictures Brian took on Easter. I don't know how to resize them, they're kind of small.

Harrison giving Blake a kiss. And then getting really excited that he's holding Blake. We were surprised at how much Harrison was interested in Blake, we expected him to ignore the baby or be a little jealous, but that was not the case at all.


Harrison hunting for Easter eggs, with Blitz' help.

2 weeks old

The ups and downs are starting to even themselves out and I seem to be adjusting pretty well to my new life as a mommy. It's impossible to prepare yourself for all of the changes but I'm completely in love with my little boy! He's 2 weeks old today. Last week at his one week appointment, he had gained 5 oz above his birth weight. This made me feel good, because I was having a lot of trouble with breastfeeding and they like the babies to be back at their birth weight at that point and he was well beyond that. I used to feed him every 3 hours, which is what the hospital and lactation specialist insist on, but I later figured out it was way too often for Blake. He didn't want to eat that often and it was causing battles between us at feeding times. The doctor told me I could basically feed him when he let me know he was hungry. So that's what we do now and he tends to eat about every 4 hours and during the night about every 5 hours. Things have gotten much better since we started that new routine.

Blake in his infant swing.


Toweling off after a sponge bath (he loves the water).


Sleeping, his favorite hobby.


Harrison loves holding Blake.


Easter, his first holiday.

Pictures that Brian took yesterday

Mommy & Daddy are excited to announce...

Blake Richard Wagner was born at 5:10pm on April 1st! He weighed 6 lbs 7 oz and was 19 3/4" long. Blake and I made a good team for labor and delivery. It went very smoothly and was over in 14 1/2 hours. To sum it up, water broke and contractions started at 3:30 am, got petocin at 11 pm, got an epidural at 2 pm and started pushing at 4 pm. I held out on the epidural as long as I could and I think I got it just in time. I was actually completely dilated at 3 pm but needed to sit up straight for about an hour so he would move down a little bit before starting to push. No episiotomy or tearing, I got lucky I guess.

Blake loves to suck his thumb, that is basically all he has done so far when he's been awake! And he makes those loud sucking noises every once in a while too. Well, Blake is sleeping soundly so I better get some sleep too while I can.

I'm in labor!

My water broke about 3:30 am, at the time I didn't really know for sure that's what had happened but as things progessed I kind of figured it out. My contractions started soon after that. I tried to sleep but that didn't really work too well. I ate and took a shower. Starting around 6:00 the contractions started coming usually about 5 minutes apart. I let Aaron sleep. He woke up at his normal time, got a shower and got dressed for work when i informed him that he will NOT be going to work today. We eventually made it up to Kim's house to get closer to the hospital. After watching the UK press conference introducing the new coach, we went to the hospital. I must have had a high leak so they ruptured it at the bottom. They have me on pitocin now and the contractions are getting stronger. It is 1pm and I might be asking for an epidural soon.