James first week of life

James had a busy first week of life . . .

Born on Monday,

came home Tuesday (boy do I look tired - got probably one hour of sleep my first night with James):

Took a binky (out of necessity) that first night home.

Met Boppi and Grandpa Al on Wednesday (they'd been in Texas for cousin Derrick's baby blessing).

First outing to the Doctor on Thursday.

Met Gram on Friday . . .

And has been getting lots of great snuggle time in between!!

Thank goodness for Spencer taking time off work the first week to help with school drop offs, pick ups, ironing, lunches, homework, etc. We were also super grateful to several good friends who brought meals on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday so that we didn't have to worry about cooking. We were both super tired and trying to figure out this new baby thing again.

Friday night Gram arrived and saved the day. She volunteered to keep James in her bedroom to help me get a little more sleep. She just brought him to me when he woke up and needed to eat. Friday night he was up at 1am and then 4am. It felt amazing to get a 3 hour stretch of sleep!

Saturday night James probably would have slept the whole night if it wasn't for me waking up super uncomfortable and needing to feed him.  I fed him just once at 3:45am!

Everyone headed off to church at 8:40am and I spent the entire 3+ hours of church snuggling my sweet baby - nursing, burping, napping with him, and taking pictures of him. It was heaven!!!

Sunday night Jessy Cheney came over with her boys. Trevor had made a beanie for James and wrote a sweet little card. 

Jessy made us her amazing sugar cookies.

Then the Terry cousins stopped bye to say hello and meet baby James.

Sunday night James slept great again (only woke up once at 4:30am to eat) and we decided it best to let him stay in Gram's room where I can't hear all his squeaks, snorts, and groans. We're all going to be sad when Gram has to go home.