He's growing up way too fast.
It's officially been way too long since I've updated. I'm about to post 6 months worth of life so brace yourselves!
Once you make your Shutterfly Christmas card, post it on your blog and Shutterfly will send you a $25 gift certificate! Shut up! I'm bankin' off Shutterfly this year! Holla!
But don't look too closely at it because you're probably getting one in the mail and I don't want it to be ruined. :)
Tada! Declan Mac Martino. Born 9/30/2010. 9 pounds, 1 ounce. 21.5 inches long. BIG BABY!
He's got a ton of dark hair, which threw me through a loop. I don't know what I was expecting, but when he came out and they put him on my chest, my first thought was, "Who's baby is that? I make blond haired babies.". How's that for being a great mom?
Seriously though, he's the best little guy. Already sleeping through the night and eats like a champ. I'm only breastfeeding this time. With Jonathan, we supplemented with formula so Joseph could take a feeding. I also didn't produce very much. Now that we have two kiddos, we decided that I would do all the feedings and Joseph would wake up with Jonathan at 7 so I could sleep in a little. It's worked out great.
This might be a little TMI for some of y'all but I gotta keep it real. Like I said above, I didn't produce very much milk with Jonathan. A friend of mine let me borrow her double breast pump since I only had a single, and told me to pump after every feeding for the first 2-3 weeks in order for my milk supply to be substantial. Well, she was right! I'm literally a cow! After the first couple of weeks, I had about 80 ounces of milk stock piled in my freezer! What the heck am I gonna do with all of this? Here's where it gets cool...
An acquaintance of mine had adopted a little boy within the past year and was relying on breastmilk being donated in order for her little guy to eat. She wasn't totally against formula but really wanted to give him solely breastmilk for a year as best she could. I didn't know her very well. In fact, we had met just once last August at my high school reunion. She married a guy who I was in band with in junior high. And we are both Mormon. That was the extent of my knowledge about her. That and she's way super nice. :) Anyway, she had blogged about their adoption journey and how their little one was eating donated breastmilk. As I was pumping for the millionth time one day, a random thought popped into my head - I wonder how Candace is doing on milk for Sawyer? I Facebooked her this very question, thinking she'd write back and say they were fine. I was shocked to read her very quick response. She said Sawyer had just turned 11 months and only had 1-2 weeks of breastmilk left. She was planning on putting him on cow's milk as soon as he turned 1 but in the meantime she didn't have anything to feed him the last 2-3 weeks before his birthday. She really didn't want to give him formula for just 2 weeks since it would be a little rough on his digestive system but she didn't know what else to do. Oh my goodness! My thought was definitely inspired! I told her I was producing enough for the both of us and she could have my stored milk as soon as she needed it. She was so excited and so was I! I felt like I was doing exactly what the Lord wanted me to do. And I was so proud of myself for listening to the Holy Spirit because I knew that thought wasn't my own. It's so easy to shrug off random thoughts, thinking they're just that...random. I'm really trying to listen to that "still, small voice" and take action. It was such a great feeling handing off over 100 ounces of breastmilk so sweet little Sawyer could have a well balanced meal.
Let's see...what else?
Jonathan has adjusted wonderfully to having Declan around. He loves him so much. Almost too much actually. He loves to give him kisses and he's constantly saying, "I kiss mouf.". Unfortunately he takes Declan's breath away - he tends to linger. He talks to him in this hyper pitched shrilly voice too, which is hilarious. I think he's trying to copy my voice but his is a tad bit more piercing. :) He loves to hold his hands and "make him dance". And he's very helpful getting his binky if it drops, throwing away his diaper and bringing me water. I'm always dying of thirst!
Overall, things are fantastic in the Martino home!
I'll post more later...
Cute little boy onesies
Jonathan loved this car :)
We forgot to get a picture before Whitney and the twins left. Sorry Whit!
