I still haven't even healed from all my "battle wounds" yet, which is probably why William still feels so incredibly new. Well, that and the fact that everything he does is absolutely fantastic and amazing to me. My friends who are parents assured me I would feel so fascinated by this kid, and I didn't believe them. I have been proven wrong!
I'll admit, this past month has been a blur of diapers, feedings and waking at all hours of the night. I can barely remember the first week of his life. This little man has wrecked my internal clock and I'm becoming quite the night owl - which leads to me sleeping all morning.... I'm just sleeping when baby sleeps :) But honestly, this first month has not been as bad as I thought it would be. There have been some tears (from Will as well as myself :) and some moments of "Oh my gosh... what have I done? Why did I ever think I should have a baby?" But for the most part, I've just loved snuggling and loving on this boy and getting to know his fantastic self!
William already looks so much bigger to me than he did when he was first born. His head is rounder and his skin has mostly cleared up. His face is bigger and his features are starting to become more proportionality positioned on his face. He's also getting more hair on the top of his head (have to even out that mullet we've got going on... :) I also cannot get over all the sounds this kid makes! He grunts and growls like a little dinosaur when he's hungry or fussy (he rarely cries!) and when he's content or sleepy he makes the sweetest little breathy cooing sounds, it just melts my heart.
I'm planning on taking a picture of William in this chair each month. Getting a decent picture of a newborn in a chair is kind of hard to do...
This is the outfit Will came home from the hospital in. Look how he's grown! I can't even handle it.
William celebrated his one month birthday by getting his Pavlik Harness for his hip dysplasia, boo! After reading parent comments on a bunch of message boards, I had myself all worked up over how terrible this brace was going to be. Of course I take everything from message boards with a grain of salt, but we really got fortunate with our situation. Everything I've been worried about has pretty much been resolved. It seems that most orthopedic surgeons want the baby to wear the harness 24/7 for the first 12 weeks and the harness cannot be taken off for anything - not changing clothes, not baths, nothing. Our orthopedic surgeon said we can take the harness off him every day to dress him (meaning he can wear clothes over or under the brace!), he will still be able to wear quite a few of the outfits he already has, he still fits in his car seat, we can take the brace off to bathe him and we can still swaddle him (thank goodness! This kid loves his swaddle!). Most importantly, the brace isn't as intrusive as it looks and I can still get plenty of snuggles from my little man. :) Will has an appointment in February to have another ultrasound done on his hips, keeping our fingers crossed it all looks good and maybe he'll get let out of this thing early!
That's pretty much all that's going on at the Butler house right now. I'm trying to find time to wrap my Christmas presents, if you end up getting a gift from me that is in a plastic bag instead of some sort of wrapping, don't be offended. :)
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