Our first week

We are all alive!! For a week now, Kim, Gavin, Crash, myself, we're all alive! Maybe we can actually do this!

Everyday that goes by we're learning more about our little man and I think he's learning to trust us. "hey these people will change my diaper when I shit my pants" and "hey that lady gives me something delicious out of her boobies when I'm hungry". We're getting to know him as well; he follows a strict pattern we've learned. Wake up, get a diaper change, feed, burp, feed, go back to sleep, and begin cycle again. It just sucks because he'll go through the whole cycle about every 3 hours, day or night. I have composed a list of things that I would like to say thank you to. Things that if I didn't have them, I would not have survived this first week.

1. my husband. Its amazing how much they are capable of when they find the motivation to do it. We've been home from the hospital for a week, I've changed the diaper maybe once a day (usually the night time routine ones). Kim has been amazing these last couple days.

2. MAMS pacifier, don't leave home without it.

3.Boppy pillow-the stress it takes off your arm while feeding is quite remarkable. Plus, once Gavin falls asleep, I can just roll him off the breast and into the little crack between myself and the pillow. He'll sleep forever there, it really is a heaven sent item.

4. car seat-technically, its called an "infant carrier" which happens to snap into a base and can be used as a certified car seat. Since its 1 of the 2 places that Gavin will fall asleep in and REMAIN asleep in, we're more inclined to think of it as an "infant carrier". Then we don't feel so bad by letting him always sleep in his car seat.

5. my boobies-Thank you, thank you, thank you, for finally bringing the milk in and feeding the child who has a mouth like a sucking vortex of destruction.

6. Layette sets- we didn't have any of these upon Gavin being born. I thought they were kind of lame and didn't see the point in them. But they are the little outfits that have the built in mittens, or the ones that flip over the hands and protect baby from scratching his face off. Thank goodness for these, without them, I'd have a baby that looked like he was attacked on a jungle safari.

So yeah, those are my things of priceless value. I wouldn't know what to do without those items. New mommies out there, stock up on those before baby is born. Don't be like me and waiting til after baby is born to realize that you need all these things. Ok, that's all for now, we'll keep you posted as we spend our last couple of days in hawaii.