So I’m going to straight-up warn y’all that this is not a recipe post. Because we’re coming off of a major holiday, we figure lots and lots of people are off work and on vacations and hanging out with their families and not perusing the internet for recipes, so if you are looking for recipes, we have lots and lots of them to browse through, just not in this post. Also, if you don’t like babies or stories about babies or pictures of babies, you’re also excused to check out the recipes. Because this post is about babies. Not food. We’ll get back to cooking next week.
I wish I had some dramatic tale to tell about my water breaking in the middle of Target or going into labor and not being able to reach my husband on his cell phone while he was at work–I think movies and TV have really raised my expectations in terms of how much drama I think my life should contain. What really happened was that last Thursday, my alarm woke me up at 4:15 am, I took a shower, did my hair, put on makeup (don’t mock me…I wanted to look cute for all those post-baby pictures that never happened. I’d show you the pictures we did finally get, but I don’t want to scare you all), and threw a few last-minute things like a flat iron (ha!!) into my suitcase.
Because my first baby did arrive in a rather dramatic fashion, I get to have c-sections. I’ll spare you the icky details, but I will say that of all my c-sections, this one was hands-down the most pleasant. If there is such a thing.
William Samuel Jones arrived at 8:16 am, screaming and hungry. He was 8 pounds 1 ounce and 21 inches long.
I spent the first 36 hours of his life convinced that I had a grumpy, mean baby, but it turns out he was just hungry. He comes by his hunger-induced grumpy meanness naturally. He’s actually a very sweet, happy, healthy, super-alert baby…
whose loves include the lady with the milk (me), the chenille side of his burp cloths, and snuggling. Dislikes include being naked, his car seat, and that mean nurse who used every trick in the book to wake him up so I could feed him when he wasn’t interested in eating. He told me all about how much he didn’t like her for the next 9 hours, which made me kind of dislike her, too.
Will’s big brother and sister think he’s pretty cute, although not nearly as exciting as they had hoped.
They’ve been busy hanging out with Grandma, so I’m not sure reality has set in. Although maybe it hasn’t set in for any of us because I kind of like waking up with him at night right now. We’ll see how long that lasts.
Thank you so much for all of your kindness and well-wishes over the last week (heck, over the last 9 months). We have the best blog readers ever and are so grateful you let us share a little bit of our lives with all of you.
Questions & Reviews
Congratulations on that sweetest of treats! He’s just precious!
Congnrats on your baby he is precious and your other children are dolls. I just came across your recipe for the Brazillion Lemonade on penterest and was looking around your website and I love it will be back many many more times. Thank you.
SO cute. Congratulations!
AWWW!! He is DARLING! These pictures made me even more baby hungry than I already was (if that’s possible!).
Congrats… He is too cute!
Congratulations! He’s absolutely adorable as are your older two! What a precious family!
congratulations! He is sooo cute! My baby girl was just slightly smaller (just 8 lbs and 20 3/4 inches 😉 and born on Saturday. So much fun!
Beautiful! Congrats! =)
He’s really beautiful. Congratulations!
He is beautiful! Congratulations
Congratulations!! He is just picture perfect, but of course you already knew that!!
I know I told you on Facebook already, but he really is just darling. I also hope you get to be a little cooler now for the rest of the summer:)
Oh, congratulations!! He’s beautiful! Take it easy!
Aw! What a sweet little guy. Congrats!
Congratulations! Here’s hoping that monster appetite means he’ll be come your best taste-tester 🙂
The boys in my family have that same trait. We call it “Hangry”(Hungry + Angry). Its that terrible emotion that comes out when they are hungry. Feed ’em and it goes away instantly. Good luck and Congrats!
Congratulations! He’s beautiful!! I whole-heartedly approve of his name! We have a little Will at our house, too. Although at 4, he’s not so little anymore! 🙂 Enjoy snuggling that sweet little guy!
Congratulations! Your sweet boy is so cute. 🙂
You have the most adorable children!
Your baby is adorable!!! I know what you mean about nurses who make you try to feed your baby when they aren’t hungry! I had a nurse get after me because it had been too long since the last feeding. I had been trying every method in the book to wake my baby up, but to no avail. If it were up to me I would have let the poor thing sleep! Drives me nuts.
Congratulations!! All three of your kids are gorgeous and Will is adorable beyond words. Enjoy and treasure him. I had the most fun with my third kid (also have boy-girl-boy), for some reason motherhood just seems so much easier and more relaxed once you’ve got the experience (and have learned the hard way) what to do and what NOT to do. Too bad the photos aren’t scratch and sniff! There’s nothing like fresh baby smell…
He is absolutely adorable! 🙂
He is adorable, congratulations & blessings, xx
He is adorable!! Thanks for sharing the pictures!
This post is even more delicious than a recipe! That little man is too much cuteness in one little package. Congrats on the new family addition.
Oh goodness, he is amazingly precious and handsome. And, I get grumpy when I am hungry, too. 🙂 Congrats on your miracle. You have a beautiful family.
He’s a cute one!!! I can’t believe it’s been that long already. I remember you just announcing you were pregnant. Congratulations and hope you and baby are doing well!
Congratulations! He’s a cutie!
Our first baby (a boy) is due in 6 weeks. I’m hoping I feel happy about waking up in the middle of the night to feed him, too. 🙂
congratulations to all
Hands down, one of my most favorite posts of all times! Congratulations to mom, dad and big brother and sister. Such a beautiful family.