Life Has Changed as I Know It

Holy Shmoly - I'm a mother of two!

Jacob Sutton McClain - 7/25/14 7.3 lbs

It's been a crazy roller coaster since he's been here.  Trey and I are definitely done having kids.  He was such an easy baby the first 5 weeks.  Seriously - slept, ate and barely cried.  I felt so blessed.  Maternity leave was wonderful and he gave me so much time to myself that I started packing up the house!  Then week 5 came around and everything changed!  He became a completely different baby.  He has what I guess people call colic.  I blame it on terrible gas. He'll scream and cry and then pass a nice big fart and then calm down.  I'm breastfeeding so I'm thinking it's something that I'm eating so I've decided to give up milk, peanut butter and coffee.  :(  All of my favorite things in life.  However, I'm just happy that I've been able to feed him 100% breastmilk.  It was not possible with Madison but Jacob has been great!  He's also a super big chunk.  He's HUGE now.

Sweet Chubby Baby Smiles

First smile was my 30th b'day

Madison has really surprised us.  We were so nervous about her jealousy but there has been NONE!  She's been a great big sister.  She loves being on paci patrol and talks and kisses him all the time.  I'm so proud of her.  Granted, the first week home she was a bit more emotional than she's ever been.  Also having my mom here didn't help things either but since my mom's been gone and she's back at school in her normal routine it's been great.  I had both kids yesterday by myself because Madison has strep and it was fairly easy.  Jacob was a lot more work than Madison for sure.  All in all, she's a proud big sister!

Meeting her brother for the first time

First day home

Has fun putting her babies in her brother's swing

She LOVES holding him all the time

I'll end this with saying I'm so exhausted - more tired than I have ever felt in my life and I'm waiting and hoping he starts sleeping through the night soon but I look back at the 30 years of my life and I feel so completely blessed and happy.  My life isn't perfect but it's perfect to me.  There's not much more that I need in life (well, except for clothes that fit and more money to buy the clothes that'll fit).