Loving Our Little Boy!

Zac is now 9 days old... Wow, it's finally sinking in that we have 3 kids and we are officially outnumbered! Hayden and Brynley love Zac, they both ask to hold him a ton, sometimes at the most inopportune times but I'm just glad they actually love him. Andy went back to work today after being off for a week and a half... Luckily, there's not much going on today and a friend came and took Hayden and Bryn for a few hours so I am feeling alright!

We've had an interesting time since arriving home from the hospital, we actually had to stay an extra night to monitor Zac's breathing so we didn't get home until Friday afternoon. It all began that night with Brynley, she was hysterical when we were trying to put her down for the night. I kept reading her stories, singing to her, etc... and every time I would leave her room she would break into hysterics again. We decided to let her cry for a bit when suddenly, we heard her door open and Brynley came running down the hall. Yep, that's right, Brynley picked a great time to start climbing out of her crib! So this went on for over an hour and finally Andy went in her room and layed down on her floor, when she layed down next to him, she was out in a few minutes. This routine went on for the next few days at nap and bedtime and she was deciding to wake up whenever she wanted to and she would come into our bedroom. It all came to head when she came into our room on Monday morning at 5am! My kids usually sleep until 8am so this was not good. Luckily, my good friend Jill saved us when she brought her son's old crib tent to our house later that night. Brynley is now trapped in her crib once again... whoever invented this lovely crib tent, is a saint!

Now on to Zac, he is such a sweet baby, he's not sleeping well yet but I have hope that he will eventually! It seems I have finally gotten him adjusted to his Miracle Blanket and he slept better last night than any other night so I'm crossing my fingers that it continues... We've been to the doctor a few times this week and he is gaining weight well and seems to be thriving. There is still one concern, as many of you may know, Brynley has a deep "dimple" at the base of her back and when she was born they were worried about it being a form of Spina Bifida which it ended up being fine. Well, Zac has one as well which they did an ultrasound on in the hospital but the radiologist was not a pediatric radiologist so he wouldn't say for sure if it looked clear or not. So, we will be getting another ultrasound on Zac next week sometime and we are praying that the dimple is closed and that his will be nothing, like Bryn's.

I just wanted to post some cute random pictures from the last week, as I think Zac has really gotten a lot cuter since the first post I made about him!

Hayden wanted to pick out Zac's clothes, he made a great choice!

Brynley is such a giant!