One Month MacKay

MacKay is one month (well, he was a week and a half ago). He is still a very sweet baby and is such a snuggler. We absolutely love having him in our family. Whitney is especially interested in EVERYTHING about MacKay. She loves to hold, burp, rock, touch, kiss, squeeze, pat, snuggle, nuzzle etc. etc. him. Let's just say if she could actually breastfeed him, she would.

MacKay likes to eat every three hours around the clock. This makes for a very tired Mommy, a Daddy who sleeps on a blow-up mattress in Big Sister's room, and a Big Sis who likes to wake up early in the morning. I'm sure we'll get this two-kid thing figured out one of these days, right?

At his one month appointment he weighed in at a whopping 9 lbs 12 oz. Then at another doctor's appointment just yesterday (a week later) he weighed 10 lbs 12 oz. My little piggy is steadily gaining weight and I love his new chub.

MacKay seems pretty laid back. I am trying not to hold my breath, but I also am crossing my fingers that this little guy keeps up his happy attitude. MacKay is good about nursing (getting much faster), drinking breast milk from a bottle, sucking on a binkie and drinking nasty formula on an occasion. He only gets frustrated when he chokes on my milk... but that's pretty understandable. I mean, we all need to breathe, right? He will sleep through just about anything, but is starting to awaken to a screaming 2-year-old. He knows his Mommy's voice (and smell) and will start to calm down when I hold him. MacKay loves to giggle in his sleep and knows how to roll from his tummy to his back. I don't think he's aware that he's actually rolling, but he can hold up his head pretty well when he's on his tummy, and then he just looks to the side and starts rolling.

Just today he gave me a real smile, which I loved. He also gave his Daddy a smile this morning, which Bart loved too.

One other thing I always want to remember about MacKay is his little machine-gun noise he makes constantly.

We're hanging in there. Watching a lot of t.v... but hoping the weather will get better soon and we can go on some walks. Yesterday, I braved an outing with two kids by myself. Maybe I'll wait a while before I do that again. We went to the library and then over to a doctor's appointment. The library went well, but after spending too much time in a small room with two tired, hungry kids- I was ready to stay home for a bit longer.

Since we don't get out much, here are some pictures of what we've been up to the last month.

Big sister is helping by giving MacKay one of her old binkies.

Just after a bath:

Tummy time:

In a car seat.. so tiny:

First bath.. needed to calm him with some milk: Doesn't this seem really relaxing to you?

Mommy and two kiddos:

More tummy time:

4 weeks exactly:

Do you think he's had enough?