Two Weeks

 We've now had Davis in our family for two weeks and it has gone by so fast, and at the same time, I feel like he's always been part of us. These big brothers are absolutely as smitten as I thought they'd be. They have been so helpful and so sweet to their new brother! They ask to hold him all the time and are so willing to do little chores and errands for me (as long as they somehow help the baby- like fetching diapers or grabbing a binky).

I set Davis down one morning so I could change the laundry and when I came back Hudson was reading him a book! It was the sweetest thing! Both boys jump at any chance to hold their baby brother.

We've spent most of the last two weeks just snuggling Davis. This newborn stage goes too quickly and Ben and I are determined to enjoy it to the fullest. Holding a newborn is really the closest thing to heaven.

This was the first time Davis came along for morning carpool! Chase was so excited about it. So far, this has been the biggest challenge (the few times I've done it). Davis's eating has been a little stressful- he's not the greatest nurser and is very unpredictable. Sometimes he latches immediately and eats great. A lot of the time it takes over 30 minutes to trying to wake him and get him to latch- and then calm him when he gets frustrated- and by the time we finish the feeding it's taken over an hour! This particular morning I started trying to feed him 40 minutes before leaving for school, but it took me until 10 minutes before we had to leave to get him to latch! But we made it!

Hudson got a little cold so we've been trying to keep him away from Davis, which didn't really go well. He just loves him so much! Here he is blowing a kiss to the baby! Hudson has written two lullabies he sings to the baby. One is his celebration milk song (celebration milk=nursing, another Hudson original) which just goes "suck, suck, suck, suck" over and over and ends with motorcycle noises. The other is "rock a bye baby, don't go a stray" which I think is a hybrid of rock a bye baby and Follow the Prophet. Sometimes that song ends with an elephant noise. They are so funny and have made me laugh a lot these past few weeks.

Ben had to go to Toronto for work for a few days, so my mom came to stay with us. She spent all three nights with me (which was good since Davis REALLY struggled with nursing those nights which was stressful) and then took a day off work to spend with us. She cleaned my whole house, made shamrock cookies with the boys, did our laundry, helped Chase with homework, held the baby and offered lots of moral support. We are so blessed to have her so close by! She was a lifesaver. My dad also took the boys to work with him one of the days, so they got in a little farming adventure. We survived Ben's trip!

I didn't do much for St. Patrick's Day this year. With Davis still being so new we were doing well to just basically survive this time! But the boys did wear green and I dyed their milk green at breakfast! I really loved Davis's little leprechaun outfit! My friend Andrea gave it to us and his tiny body and red hair made him the cutest little leprechaun I've ever seen!