Our life at home with Evan starting out pretty smoothly…for the first few hours anyway. We got settled, Gramma and Papa arrived and we were visiting with them when things started to go awry. Papa was about to feed Evan when we discovered that the bottle was leaking. Problem 1 quickly fixed. Evan took his bottle, burped like a champ and then thanked Papa by peeing on him. It’s a bit blurry now but I think this was the second or third diaper issue we had already had on Tuesday. Rookie mistakes! Needless to say, things got worse before they got better. In a short period of time, we seemed to have used up every outfit, sleeper, blanket, and bib that we had. I had visions of needing to do laundry everyday!!
Before peeing on Papa  | I love Gramma!  | Comfy in the boppy  |
The first night wasn’t much better either. Bruce took the early shift and was completely exhausted by about 2 am. (Completely understandable seeing as Bruce had spent the last 5 days taking care of all 3 of us!) Evan was due to eat again around 2:30 so I decided to sit up with him, while he slept, until he woke up ready to eat. Well this didn’t happen until 6 am! What a good little sleeper we have!! After feeding Evan, I knew he needed a clean diaper so I got up to change him. At that point I realized that my legs were the size of an elephant’s legs from all the swelling and I could barely stand. Not a smart decision, mom!
Wednesday things went a little smoother. Still a few diaper issues and changing Evan’s clothes was proving to be challenging, but we were figuring it out. I think we all slept a lot that day, recovering from the night we had on Tuesday. Around 7 pm, Omi and Grandpa Bob arrived for their week-long visit with their new grandson. They were thrilled to meet him and we were happy to have two extra sets of hands to help out! We had a relatively low key visit. Bruce and Grandpa Bob were able to get a few projects done in the yard and Omi was more than happy to feed and keep on eye on Evan so that I could rest and recover. We spent lots of time comparing Evan to his cousins – Danny, Sean and Hannah, and had many nice evenings watching what Bruce and I call “baby TV”.
Meeeting Omi and Grandpa Bob for the first time  | Sweet little angel  |
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