Mackson is 4 Months Old

Baby Mackson is FOUR months old! {yesterday}
Time is flying by, but I'm loving every minute of it.

 

Mackson has always been good at little coos and sighs, but this past week he has certainly found his tiny voice! It's been so fun to "chat" with him and talk back and forth. I love it.

 

Mack loves blowing spit bubbles lately & Spencer thinks it's hilarious.

He still loves sucking on his hands and he's super slobbery.  
(as you can see by his drool-soaked shirt)

 

Mack thinks he's all grown up and tries to hold his own bottle. *sigh*

 

When he eats he quickly finds one of my fingers and grips it with his little hand.

 

He's sleeping about 11 1/2 hours a night and it's glorious.

 

He's getting really good at gripping his toys & it's been so fun to watch him try to process all of the colors and sounds they make.

 

Lately when he smiles he gives a big gummy grin, but smiles with his eyes too. This makes him look just like his mama.

 

He's {finally} growing like a weed & it's gradually getting harder for me to tote him around  in his carrier. But with that being said, he's still wearing newborn diapers & newborn clothes with the exception of his 3 month sized jammies.
 

He's been pretty cuddly at night and has fallen asleep with me holding him tight. These are the nights I never want to put him down.

 

His favorite time is still bath time, and still calms right down as soon as he hears the water running.

His face is just barely starting to chub up a bit & kissing his cheeks is my favorite past time.

We love this tiny tot so much!!
Happy 4 Months little babe!

XOXO

Today

Today just doesn't seem fair.

Being a full-time working mom is literally the hardest thing I've ever done.

 

I drove routinely up the dark street. 

It was snowing outside & my parent's driveway was white.

It was the coldest morning yet dropping Mackson off & he scrunched up his little face as the snowflakes lightly hit his cheeks for the first time.

 

The house was dark & so still.

My dad who usually greets me excitedly at the door was still snoring down the hall.

I took the blankets off of Mackson layer by layer and lifted him out of his seat.

He was SO warm and flopped right over on my shoulder with the tiniest little sigh.

 

He whimpered for a second as I laid him in his crib.

Then he flopped over on his left side & covered his little face with his arm, just like usual.

Sucking away on his little binky.

Then he was out.

 

I stood there silently after I kissed his little warm head & whispered how much I love him.

The house was still silent. Dad was still snoring.

It was 6:30am & everyone was sleeping.

But there I was awake as could be, not quite wanting to start my day yet.

 

I stood there thinking about how today just isn't fair.

It's cold outside & I still want to be in bed too.
I wanted to scoop Mackson up in my arms & kiss him a thousand times over.

But instead I gathered up my keys & my coat, & left my heart laying there in the crib.

 

I walked down the steps without a baby carrier & without Mackson.

It seemed just a little colder outside & the driveway was covered with just a little more snow.

I probably cried a little bit & wondered if it ever gets easier.

Today just doesn't seem very fair.

 



Baby Mackson {1 month}

Baby Mackson 

{1.month.old}

I can't believe my tiny baby is already 1 month old.. it gives me a mini heart attack to think how fast time is going by. I feel like I will be back at work before I know it.. but for now I'm just enjoying my time home with tiny toes. 

Mack wakes up soo smiley. 

He hears me say "hiii babbyy" and I get a big gummy smile in response. 

He hates baths but loves having his hair washed.

He loves looking out the windows and is fascinated with windows with blinds on them.

He is growing like a weed and has long legs that he likes to kick.

He has been able to hold his head up since he came out of the womb (literally) he's a tough little dude.

He's got a great set of lungs on him and likes to show them off right around bed time.

He sleeps like a champ at night and goes right back to bed after he eats. Last night he slept 5 1/2 hours which was a nice treat. 

He loves laying on mom for naps and likes it when dad walks up and down the stairs while holding him. 

He loves car rides and loves his stroller- this makes him a great partner for outings!

this bundle of joy makes me so incredibly happy we love him so much!

Sheesh.

SOO.. The last week or so has been a little nuts. Our typical lives as of lately.

I got the carpets cleaned and built the glider chair for the nursery! Once Spencer was home from North Dakota we spent every waking minute trying to pack things up in the little amount of time that Spencer was here before he left for work again. I put the crib together while Spencer was unloading boxes and I wanted to cry. Our place still doesn't have air conditioning and the upstairs is at least 100 degrees of hot, stuffy air. Miserable.

 

{sneak preview} 

It's funny how much relief I feel just having the crib put together..

We've purchased a fridge that has nothing in it but bottled water, Gatorade and a few pudding packs. But I mean, really.. what else do you need?

 

I bought my first major appliances this week also. Front load washer/dryer and I was actually so excited about it I felt some depression from realizing that's a sign I'm getting old. Who would have thought I'd be excited about a washer/dryer??

{You should have seen how excited I was about buying baby laundry detergent}

..Then I got tired of walking through Lowes for the millionth time this month and made Spencer push me in the cart. He's a good man.

 

 We spent the whole 4th of July packing and moving boxes back and forth. I really wasn't much help so Spencer left me at the apartment to box small stuff up and he took load after load after load down to the house by himself. I really wanted to nap, and he wanted me to nap, but my heart broke every. time. we walked back in the front door to get another load and was more exhausted than the last time. Again, he's a good man.

 

We stopped moving boxes around 7:30 and went to my parents for a BBQ and red, white and blue Popsicles.

 

Winston has LOVED having boxes and things to climb around on while we've been packing. He thinks we've been setting up new playgrounds for him all along!

 

{Those fabric scraps he's laying on were originally going to be turned into burp cloths for the baby.. but Winston has taken ownership of them since. They are now WINSONS burp cloths.}

 

 Sunday night I couldn't sleep at all because I was so sick. This is the third week I've had my cold and it kept getting worse. I just sobbed when Spencer woke up and he went with me to Instacare as soon as they opened. I have a horrible sinus infection and have been on antibiotics that are sloooowly helping.

 

Spencer went back to North Dakota yesterday morning for a 10 day work period. This is such a great opportunity for him and we are soo excited about it. He should be back the evening of the 17th. I'm hoping this baby decides he's cozy for a while and stays put until Spencer is back. If I start laboring he can take a company vehicle to drive home or they're going to do their very best at getting him on the first flight out.

 

 

I'm 37 weeks pregnant this week & I woke up this morning feeling a little different. Baby dropped over night and I am feeling him SO LOW today. I'm trying so hard to take it easy. We've still got so many boxes to move into the house and I have so much to do before Spencer gets back. Right now it's hard to have things in both of our places- I want as much moved into the house as possible but living there is out of the question with how scorching hot it is. I can't even describe..

We have to be out of our place and have it cleaned BY the 21st of this month so we're in a bit of a crunch and there's not much either one of us can do about it with Spencer being gone and me needing to take it easy.

 

 

Besides all of that, I'm feeling really good for being "so pregnant" and I'm still really comfortable. I love my growing bump so much I'm honestly going to be sad to lose it.

{but hopefully I  DO lose it, eventually?} I'm sleeping really well at night and I still have a significant amount of energy. I bought baby's changing table yesterday and I'm looking forward to *carefully* putting that together this weekend.

 

...Things are moving right along...

 

XOXO

Week 25 Update!

I am 25 weeks pregnant as of TODAY

& I'm in my 6th month (Almost 7th month)

 

According to Parents.com {love this website} Baby Boy is about the size of an Acorn Squash

...which completely blows my mind!!

Lots of people at work have just started noticing I'm pregnant and ask how I'm feeling in my "first trimester".  {Which I think is crazy.. That's a LEGIT belly in that pic for people to just be noticing..!} When I tell them I'm 6 months pregnant, 7 months next week, their reaction is priceless. I'm loving that people are noticing that I'm actually pregnant, and not just wondering how my dinner was last night.

{I think it's been pretty freakin' obvious for a while now, but whatevs.}

 

I love my pregnant belly so much, I often wonder how often people catch me admiring my perfectly round belly, thinking I'm a total weirdo. But that's okay. I love how my belly button just barely pokes through my pj shirt at night too.

 

I'm still feeling great, and I'm hoping every pregnancy is just like this one. I really have enjoyed being pregnant. I also wonder how many people think I'm a total weirdo when I say that. That's okay too.

 

We've registered at Target & also at BuyBuy Baby which is a total Baby MECCA. If it weren't in Sandy I'd be driving out there at least once a week to add to my registry or admire the walls and walls of baby items they have there. It's probably a really good thing it's not just a short drive down the street.

 

Baby boy's kicks are getting stronger & I still freak out every time I can see my belly or my shirt move. I get all giggly when I poke my belly & he kicks or punches back. He's still the most active right after I eat, drink cold water, on car rides, or when I'm slightly reclined on the couch. Spencer kinda gets weirded out about feeling the kicks, but loves getting right by my growing belly to talk to babe. It's adorable.

 

It's been so fun to have baby boy respond to noises. I'll put my Lullaby Pandora station on and place it on my belly. He will slowly move or kick. Sometimes he stops moving and I imagine him in my belly being comforted my the soft music. We went to the Jazz game two weekends ago and at one point the crowd cheered so loud Mack started kicking like crazy!

 

Mack has recently been NUDGING his way right to the front of my belly- If I run my hand across my tummy I can feel his perfectly round head {or bum?} ....or So I thought. I found out I've really just been having Braxton Hicks contractions since 20 weeks. Sweet!

 

At my last appointment My midwife and her assistant told me how proud they were of the amount of weight I gained within a 4 week period. I was totally and completely shocked standing on the scale, but whatever is going to keep the baby healthy. Apparently the insane amount is "normal" for a 4 week span where I'm at in the pregnancy, and totally "abnormal" for normal Mikell. I guess things stopped being normal about 25 weeks ago though. And I love that. It's a rare thing to be told someone is proud of your massive weight gain haha

 

Speaking of weight gain, I'm still not craving anything which I guess is nice, but it also kinda bums me out. I was really looking forward to waking up at midnight to have Spencer go on treat-runs to the store for me & my late-night cravings. You lucked out, mister.

 

I've bought a few things for the nursery but I'm trying really hard to refrain since we don't know where we will be living, and we don't have much space to store things in the mean time. {I'll have to make another blog post on some of my Nursery Favorites from Etsy!}

 

According to my pregnancy app, Mack's primitive memory is beginning to develop, meaning music and voices will be leaving an impression in his brain. His spine has 1000 ligaments, 150 joints and 33 vertebrae. His skin has now changed from translucent to a more opaque appearance. His cerebral cortex (part of the brain that is responsible for emotions, reasoning, planning and the ability to solve problems) is the most prominent part of his brain right now.

 

Anyways, Thanks for reading the update today!

25 weeks down, feeling so great, and only 15 weeks left to go.

I can't even believe how fast this has gone by.

 

XOXO

{M} is For..

 

After months of me thinking I was having a girl when I first found out I was pregnant, I had lists of girl names picked out & ready! When we went to Fetal Photos at 15 weeks and found out we are having a BOY, we were totally stumped on boy names!

 

It had to be studly, manly, tough, and Spencer said he wanted a name our little guy could grow up and chop wood with. {i guess that's a guy thing..}

 

The day we found out we were having a boy {when I should have been studying} we sat in our bedroom coming up with lists of boy names, none of which we could agree on, until I read MACKSON. After 9 weeks of trying it out and referring to baby boy as Mackson, we've fallen in love with the name for our little man! Mackson, Baby Mack, Mack-Daddy- it's perfect!
(Disclaimer: He will go by Mack. NOT Macks. No S at the end.)

 

I guess it's really official since I ordered this adorable print to hang in the Nursery, from AppleBlossomPrint on Etsy. You can find her shop HERE to see the cutest customizable prints for the Nursery & so much more!

 

YAY for Baby Mackson Lane Gordon!

 

XOXO