Friday Finds- Our Little Man!!!

I apologize for my delay in blogging, but you see there is this little man that arrived on 3/22/13 at 8:26pm, and I can't seem to want to do anything else but spend time with him...

I have decided to refer to our little man as "Bear" on the blog. Just two weeks ago, I was leaving the dr's office and having to make an appointment for a stress test on Sunday, March 24th because I was certain our little one was going to make a late arrival. But on Friday am, I was awakened by what I thought was my water breaking. But given that I had thought this once before I called my mom and sister gave them the signs and thought I will wait and see. Well when the water kept coming down my leg (trying to not be too graphic), I decided I better call my husband home from work and call the doctor, I was pretty sure this was it!!

We arrived at the hospital to have it confirmed that my water had broken and I was in labor. How exciting, the text messages and phone calls started :)!! I was on top of the moon, in that I really wasn't feeling any pain and I was talking,laughing, making my laps around the labor and delivery ward. Oh, how that would change when I received the Petusin :). I"m sure some of you mom's know that feeling. My labor went really fast, I received the epidural at 4pm and 3 hours later I was pushing. This is something that I will never forget, especially since I was one of the lucky ones where the epidural didn't take on my left side. 

I will never forget the look on my husband's face when the doctor said, " It's a Boy!".Greg was shocked, as he was certain it was a little girl. I had a feeling all along it was a boy, and we even had a family pool going. The ironic thing is I had my due date as 3/22 and sex as a boy. So I guess the learning for all of our family members is don't go against a mother's intuition.... :).

I love our little Bear, it has been so much fun with him the past two weeks , watching him grow, smile, cry, and be more alert to his surroundings. He is growing so fast, we brought him home 2 weeks ago at 6 lbs, 11 oz and I went to the lactation consultant yesterday only to find out he is already 8lbs!! Our little Bear is an eater! I have been blessed to have my Mom (Nana) and Greg's mom in town helping out with Bear.  To be completely honest, I'm so nervous for them to leave this weekend, but excited about my time alone. It has been nice though calling my mom in the middle of the night to come upstairs if I can't seem to rock him back to sleep, she has the magical touch! 

Motherhood is a feeling I just can't describe. When Bear smiles, it melts my heart and brings tears to my eyes especially right now with all of my hormones :)!

I have posted some pictures of our little Bear for you guys to witness how cute he is :)! (Of course my husband is loving everyone saying, he looks just like Greg and he is sooo cute! :)

Bear's first picture!!! I will always cherish this moment!

Daddy is the family photographer so these are all some of the 1,000 pictures that Greg took for Bear's newborn shoot!

We are just so blessed to have this little one and can't wait to share his adventures and our adventures as parent's on the blog!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend, and please pray for us as we transition from grandparent help to being self sufficient :)!

Cheers!
JNK