I'm sitting here in my beautiful home, 10:3o at night with the Christmas tree and snow village glowing, Mason sleeping next to me just feeling so blessed. God is amazing. I've always known this, but until you are a mother and look down at your child and realize he was given to you and formed for you by this higher being, you can not understand the true power of our Lord. I'm not sure why I have gotten so lucky in my life but I am truly thankful for everything given to me. Ryon is my very best friend and since the minute I met him I feel like my life continues to be blessed with happiness and love. I know Mason will learn from him, just as Ryon learned from Rick how to love his wife and be a good husband and dad. Ryon is my strength right now. Thru my craziness and tear filled eyes for no reason at all, he has such a calmness about him, and somehow always makes me smile. We have grown so much closer in the past two weeks and I look forward to all the years to come.
Monday we took Mason to the Dr. for the first time. He weighed 6 pounds, 3 ounces, so not quite back to his birth weight, but we are working on it! Since we have brought Mason home, we realized how well he can already hold his head up, how strong he is, and of course his big hands and feet. I thought we were just those "proud new parents" when it came to his head holding and strength, but the nurse was astonished when she was checking him out at how great he held his head and his strength, which of course makes daddy proud! After the appointment we had to take him to the hospital to have another test run. Ryon had to get to work for the first time in weeks, so Teri picked Mason and I up and off we went. Grandma TK was such a wonderful help! I still can't pick heavy things up or carry his car seat, or drive, so I needed reinforcement! Teri soon learned how to work all the contraptions to the car seat and just lugged little Mason everywhere. They had to prick Mason's foot for his test and he didn't even cry until they started really squeezing the blood out. He is such a tough little man. When he was born and had his circumcision, the Dr. said he slept thru the whole thing! How a baby does that, I have no clue, but I hope his pain tolerance is better than his mama's! The last few days have been such a learning experience. I'm still very sore from the surgery. I have been sleeping in the bed, but tonight I'm going to stay in the living room recliner. I can't get out of bed hardly at all so it puts so much more work on Ryon during the night. He is exhausted. So until I can function and get in and out of bed, I'm hanging in the living room with Mason by my side in the bassinett. Hopefully it will keep us all a little bit more sane! I also started pumping today. I'm hoping to be able to give my body a break and some freedom by doing so. It's obviously an interesting process but I'm getting the hang of it and I'm so thankful for my awesome breast pump that Sandy bought for me. I'm getting really anxious to feel good and normal again. I'm tired of not feeling well and I'm very tired of my lost independance with the no driving, or going anywhere right now. Needless to say, I'm feeling kind of bored, but don't really need or have anything to do! I'm ready to be able to run an errand though if I need to. God teached patience by making you wait though, so here I sit, waiting on my recovery :) We have also been blessed with wonderful friends taking care of us. Last night Frankie and Kassadie Barela brought over dinner and sat and enjoyed the evening with us and tonight Courtney Lyon dropped off dinner. I have been thankful to not have to think about what to feed my exhausted husband! My eyes are getting heavy, so I'm going to rest them before feeding time in an hour.
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