Bringing Home Baby: Part 4 – Coming Home

When Lilly arrived home from church she came up the stairs, saw me and the baby and immediately went running off to play with Logan. I thought she would be a little excited to finally have us home but we came in second place to Aunt Angie and Logan.

Angie and Logan stayed for a week and it was the most wonderful thing ever! I felt so spoiled and taken care of. Angie went grocery shopping, made meals, cleaned the house, took care of Lilly, and made sure I was taken care of. It felt like I was a mother of 1 again and it gave me the whole week to bond with Bennett. I have actually felt better and more relaxed with Bennett then I ever did with Lilly. My physical recovery has been easier and because I wasn’t nervous to bring a baby home I have been able to relax and enjoy the newborn stage more. Also, I learned my lesson with Lilly, so now I really do nap whenever I get a chance and I have been trying really hard to spend as much time as I can relishing the newborn stage since I know it goes by so fast.   

Lilly was extremely happy to have Logan and Angie at the house. Lilly has always wanted an older sibling to play with and Logan was fantastic with her. I think he is Lilly’s new best bud. Lilly ended up calling Angie mommy; it was way easier to do that then to remember ‘Aunt Angie’. Plus, Angie is way more fun than mommy and buys her things.

While they were here Angie took the kids to the John Deere Pavilion, the Chick-fil-a play place, and to the park. She saw how crazy our Chick-fil-a play place is here. We also went out to dinner and to the mall. I wish she was able to see more Iowa but I wasn’t up for much. My favorite part was the time that we got to spend talking. It was nice visiting to another adult female, most of the time I am with kids or just Tyson.

When Angie told Logan they were coming here to help with Lilly he told her that Lilly better not try to do girl stuff with him and dress him up in princess dresses. He did really well playing with all of her girly toys and watching her princess shows but when she tried to dress him up in a tutu he was not having it. Good thing we had some superhero stuff.  

John Deere Pavilion

The next week after Angie and Logan left Tyson stayed home. I think he got bored after a couple of days. It was nice having him home for the week and he did a good job of making dinner and taking care of Lilly.

Lilly loves her baby brother. She consistently talks about how cute he is and she seems to want him to come everywhere with her. She really wants him to play with toys and doesn’t understand why he doesn’t. I tried to explain to her that his hands don’t open all the way. She also has a hard time letting him sleep. She wants to touch or look at him all the time. Lilly likes sharing her toys with him. We will see how she does once he starts taking them away.  

Sorry about the underwear - it was too cute, we had to get the picture right away

Bennett has been a really good baby. I am not sure what I did to get lucky with two easy babies. He eats really well and sleeps at night. He does eat a lot though and wakes up several times at night to eat. But I am still lucky because he will go 5-6 hours in between his first and second nightly feeding.

Bennett is a noisy baby. He grunts, snores and makes other various noises. He doesn’t cry very much. Usually when he is ready to eat he starts grunting until I feed him. I have to swaddle him at night to make sure he is quiet and gets some sleep.  He is also starting to coo a little bit and smile. He is getting bigger and is super cute. Now I just have to learn how to balance 2 kids, work, the house work and everything else mommy’s have to do.

Bennett is a spitter so we have to use bibs all the time