Four weeks

January has been a blur. The past four weeks have been full of emotions; worry for Malcolm, concern for how Adam will cope with his mom being away for four weeks and a new baby brother,  missing spending time with Randy where we just talked. 

But our time in the hospital was also full of so many special moments. It’s easy to forget all the amazing things that happened in these four week.  Those four weeks were spent getting to know our new son and sharing with Adam the excitement of becoming a family of four.  It was time that Randy and I spent supporting each other. 

It was spent seeing Malcolm and getting to hold him and feed him.

 

It was spent with all my sweet, sweet friends who sent beautiful flowers, came to visit me and Malcolm and called and wrote.

It was time spent celebrating Malcolm’s arrival with Adam. I had promised Adam that Malcolm would bring us cookies and cake.  A treat for Adam and for me since I hadn’t had any sugar in seven months!  Since we were in the hospital for a while we spread out the sugar and presents and had a lot of both but hey, new brothers don’t come often.

 
Baby Malcolm got Adam presents because he is already a wonderful big brother! He got Adam a really cool scooter.
 

He also got Adam a police car with a real siren.



And a cool Superman toy! That Malcolm, he has good taste. 

  

 
It was time spent with Malcolm who grew slowly but surely.  He was on oxygen for a while but just a couple days after his birth he was breathing on his own.  It took a bit of time but he was soon nursing like a champ and within two weeks he was back up to his birth weight and is now past 5 pounds!
 

 

 
It was time spent amusing ourselves in the hospital.  What did we do to pass the time in the hospital you ask?
 
We dressed Adam in my clothes to see how he would look.  Just kidding, he spilled water and yogurt on his clothes on the way to the hospital and lack of a spare outfit led to this.

 
Adam perfected his please mommy can I watch Nemo look.  
 
 
We tried on all the shoes in the room.
 
 
We watched the glass elevator go up and down and up and down.  This was a fan favourite.

It was time spent celebrating when Malcolm could finally move into our room.  We were so happy to have him to ourselves and to get to hold him all the time.

 

 

 

It was time spent celebrating finally bringing our son home. Which also included getting to dress him in the cutest little outfit, thanks Aunt Daf!

 

 

And just like that we were all home.

 

 

All those treats and presents from Malcolm must have done the trick, because so far Adam has been really good with Malcolm.  He wants to hold him all the time and hasn’t had any epic fits over having to share his parents yet.  I know it’s early days but he really seems to love Malcolm.

 
I am so excited for this next chapter of our lives where we have two beautiful sons and get to experience so many new places and experiences with them!
 


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  1. The sweetest! So happy everyone is home, healthy and happy. Love your family of four and can't wait to meet Malcolm! xx

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