First Week at Home

I am so in love with my little bundle!  Here is a little photo update from our first week with baby boy:

2 Days Old:

6 Days Old:

All three of my kids have been so wonderful with Liam.  Gabe has been so patient and is such a help to me, as usual.  He loves playing with Liam, holding him for short periods – like a minute (typical male), and reading to him while he’s in his bouncer.  Gabe gets such a kick out of Liam’s facial expressions and can often be heard bursting into hysterics at the sight of Liam’s funny faces.  Ari is over the moon in love with Liam, as we knew she would be.  She never wants him out of her sight, and gets upset at me whenever I have to take him away to feed him.  Ari has been communicating a lot more with us when it comes to Liam, such as telling me when I’m being too noisy while blow drying my hair by covering her ear and pointing to Liam and telling me to feed him when he is crying.  She also mentions him constantly using her “talker”.  Ari has been learning to be more gentle with Liam, which requires basically all of her will power to reign in her excitement.  She still sometimes lets it get the best of her and taps him too forcefully on the head or sticks her finger in his mouth, but overall, she’s been a very responsible big sister.  Ari has also started learning how to tone down her voice when talking to Liam.  It is so sweet to listen to her jabber to him in her “baby voice”.  Isabella has started requesting that I call her “Big Mama”, because of her role with Liam.  She is so patient and tender and syrupy sweet with him.  I have never truly seen this side of her until now, and I love it.  She wants to help me with everything from fetching things to propping up my arm with pillows when I’m nursing to cradling him when he’s upset, and she’s been begging to change his diaper since before I even had him.  Although not a typical summer full of camping and water parks and travel, it has been a very special summer so far.  I love watching my children blossom into the great people they are becoming.