Blake, Day 6

Has everyone had enough of Blake yet? I can't help but keep posting pictures of the little guy. He gained two ounces in the last two days so he is right on schedule with his weight gain and comes in at a burly 6lbs. 5.5oz. Treesa, my Midwife's assistant, came by today to help me with our lactation problems. Blake wasn't sucking so great at the beginning so they had me pump to bring in the milk and now Treesa said my body responded so well to the pump that I am now producing enough milk for twins. We will find a middle ground soon enough. My parents stayed with us for a few days and now Andrew's family is here until the end of the weekend. Ellen has made delicious meals and everyone hands Blake around for their fix of baby TV!

MY PARENTS WITH BLAKE

PICTURE TIME

THIS WAS THE OUTFIT ANDREW WORE AS A BABY (the onesie says Born at Home)

ANDREW'S WORK TEAM SENT THIS BABY BOUQET TO US TODAY (the flowers are socks and other fun clothes)

BECAUSE BLAKE HAS A BIT OF JAUNDICE WE HAD TO PUT IN SOME SUN TIME TODAY

WALTER AND DAVID ENJOYING BABY

THREE GENERATIONS OF BOYS

WALTER TELLING BLAKE TO WEAR HIS MIDDLE NAME PROUDLY

Here is a video I took yesterday morning.

Waking up is hard to do

Sometimes Blake is a little sleepy in the morning.

Another photo and a video

Not much to do around here but sleep and take photos of Blake :)

Blake and I

Blake waking up this morning

Home birthed at last!

Here is Blake in all his glory!

The before picture, 5am this morning:

6 lbs. 7 oz. and 20 inches long.

Introductions

It has been less than 24 hours and I am once again eating another salami sandwich. I tuck myself into bed at night and dream of the next time I get to have one. Anyways, as I sit in front of the computer enjoying my bliss, I realized I haven't introduced anyone to our Licensed Midwife. Here is her website address where you can read all about her. Her prenatal care has gone above and beyond what I expected.

http://www.rosannadavis.com/

Life is good.

Almost Full Term

I am almost in the middle of my 36th week of pregnancy which means I will be "full term" on Monday. I have decided a great day for Blake to come into this world would be on April 22nd, Earth Day. He has the ultimate say I guess.

Andrew staged a mini photo shoot the other night so we could take some belly photos. I made Andrew call me "model" the whole time even though my rounder figure wouldn't cut it on any runway at this point (or before for that matter)!

New York in memories now

I would have been so happy to come home to all this rain in California, but now I wish it was snow. Geesh, I am never totally satisfied. Andrew finally uploaded all of the pictures from NY so I am adding some to the blog.

It was absolutely wonderful to take the train upstate to visit our friends Carolyn, Dave, and their adorable daughter Elaine. Elaine is the spitting image of Carolyn and I am sure she inherited Dave's great qualities too, but she reminds me so much of Carolyn at this point.

The farm/school was a ghost town and we didn't end up seeing anyone we knew. It was still great to have found my way back to the school. I have such fond memories and now they are even fonder. I am counting down the days until I get back to NY. I hope it doesn't take eight more years.

Andrew just taught me how to create a gallery so here is the link to all the photos:
http://picasaweb.google.com/hurstdog/NewYorkAlbum?authkey=A3_gB36N1wk