my world

tuesday, march 8th at 11:36pm we welcomed the most precious gift from god, and life as we knew it changed within a matter of minutes.

when sutton arrived (yes, we chose a name), we immediatley fell in love and could not understand how or what we did to be blessed with this little creature.  he is just perfect...even after 28 hours of waiting...it was well worth the wait!.  he has the longest fingers and feet- takes after his daddy.  his face is perfectly round and as smooth as silk.  he has such a cute botton nose and some of the funnest faces i have seen. he was smiling from the get go and takes everything in. after we looked at every little nook and craney and memorized everyone of his features, the shock of becoming a parent started to set in.
especially when the nurse brought him to us after all of his "inspections".
she came into our room and rambled off all of these things we needed to know (where we can walk with him, how to plunge his nose, how to treat his belly button...def a topic for a another day, what each name band means, what to do when he crys, etc) the info just kept coming and all i kept hearing was charlie brown's teacher talking!  didnt get one bit of the info she delivered except "here is your son and congrats!!!"  my first thought...WHAT-wait-where are you going-what do i do now!?!?
then the shock quickly turned into a little bit of fear.  am i going to do the right thing? what was that noise he made? is he going to sleep or cry all night long? am i going to be a good parent? the list just kept growing and growing...
but, as the week went on in the hospital, things started to fall together and we became a team.  we looked at each other and said we can do this. so the hospital decided friday was the day to let us go and fly on our own...and so we did and now here we are on monday, just about his week birthday.  wow-what a week it has been.

each day that we have been home with him, we have learned so much about him, each other and how this parenting thing really works.
we have learned that he loves to roll on to his side when he lays in his crib/floor or really just anywhere.
we have learned that you must cover the boy parts when changing (fire hydrant).
we have learned that he gets the hiccups alot after each feeding.

we have learned that sometimes it really just takes two people to change him (crazy wiggly legs).

we have learned that he can almost put his own paci in his mouth.

we have learned that pampers diapers (right now) are amazing.

we have learned that sleep saks are the best thing invented.

we have learned that his eyes are sometimes crossed, but its normal and only happens when he concentrates hard.

we have learned he hates to be naked (poor guy shakes and shivers).

we have learned that we love him more than we ever thought we could.

we have learned to take pictures of everything possible.

so, as i look back at the past 6 days and all they have entailed, i am so in love with my life right now and can not imagine it being any other way.