First month! :)

Peaceful sleepy time...(No worries...we don't normally let him sleep like this under the sheets without lots of supervision!:)
Our baby's first Halloween! The outfit was a bit big, but it's okay! We got it from a precious friend, Megan! :)
Momma loves this hat! :)
Just hangin out in my dino jammies...


And our first family pic! Fun fun!

So...the first month has been...let's see...exhausting...fun...crazy...BUSY...exhilarating...breathtaking...emotion-packed...did I mention exhausting?
Oh yeah...I did.
Wow.
I cannot get over how one sweet little innocent 8 pound person can take so much work! Lol.
I mean, he's just 8 pounds!
The laundry has sat in heaps for days. When we have company over, which we love by the way, don't get me wrong! :) But..when we have company, it gets tossed into Kaleb's crib and we stay in the living room so maybe they won't see it!
Dishes pile up in the sink and bits of food get like permanently stuck on them because they sit there for so long.
Up til this week, the carpets had not seen a vacuum for six weeks. Yep. That's right.
And I HATE dirty floors. I feel like having a dirty floor makes the whole house look dirty, even if it's not!
My plants were even starting to wilt.
We also have wasps.
I know many people have them, if not all...and the West Texas area has been pretty much plagued with them recently. Just like every year we get plagued with some kind of crazy bug....I just wish it wasn't wasps this year.
I have called the laundry room a "wasp cemetery" this week, because that is what it is. After we took six cans of wasp spray to it.
We left the door open for Wiggles, our pug, to get in and out...and that was a BIG mistake with all the wasps. They made it their home. Literally. And we kicked Wiggles out of there. Needless to say he hangs out on the porch now.
Tomorrow that is my goal - to tackle that room. Yuck.
That is...if I get any time...:)
And on top of all this I have a spare tire!
Lol.
I have never had excess fat around the middle...not to say that I haven't worked out a lot and kept it off that way...but really...I have never been this flabby in my life.
So I need to work out again...I am looking forward to the next visit to the doc when maybe he will tell me it's okay to begin exercise again. It's been almost six weeks since my C-section. So I think we're pretty much there.
I also feel bad because I think we are going to have to find another home for our sweet puppy who's not a puppy anymore (Wigglesworth).
I have loved him since the day we got him (at the mall...:) almost three years ago. I had always wanted a pug, and I fell in love as soon as Justin said, "Yes, you may have him."
Scooped him up in my arms and didn't let him go!
I mommied him and taught him how to sit, stay, come, shake, to name a few things. He was so smart! He learned in just a day how to do each of these things (not all in one day but each thing I taught him, he'd learn in just a day!).
But mommie doesn't have time for him anymore...and daddy is always at work too.
So Wiggles howls.
That is his new thing.
He sits outside and just howls.
And it breaks my mommie heart!
So...we are going to have to find a new home for the little guy.
We are going to put him in the paper soon, and maybe we'll find someone to love on him the way he needs to be loved.
He really is a very, very good dog.
I, on the other hand, will not be able to watch as he leaves. This is a Justin task!
It just gets old when Kaleb is crying, and Wiggles joins him...it's like they have crying contests! Wiggles howls, and Kaleb joins him....and then Kaleb fusses, then Wiggles joins him even louder.
Makes mommie want to boo hoo too!
So...all of this to say...the last month has been interesting.

But...you know, as they say, I wouldn't trade it for anything.
No, seriously, it really is true.
Despite the hard parts, having a child is the BEST thing in the entire world.
I would not trade Kaleb's smile for a clean house if my life depended on it....he IS my world right now. He is everything to me besides my hubby, and to me, the best of both of us.
He does have colic, and that is another story.
But he has his good times - especially in the morning. After he's been fed in the morning, and I am changing him on his table, he just stares at himself in the mirror, and I think...I saw his first smile the other day. It was the best moment ever...I had just said, "Aren't you mommie's little man? Yes, you are..." :)
That made all of the dirty laundry, all the dirty dishes, and all the wasps just disappear from my mind.
He is SO precious.
He is also becoming more alert every day...starting to make little sounds that are not just cries, but little coo's, and little "ahh's".
Even his cry is music to mommie's ears. I have memorized the way it sounds. He starts small, and builds...:) He also grunts a lot!
The first few weeks have been priceless. Painful (as any mom with a C-section knows!...or any mom knows, for that matter!) but priceless!
I would go to sleep, and dream about Kaleb, then wake up with his warm little body right next to mine, hearing his peaceful breathing.
(The "family bed" has been kind of a controversy with us but we have decided on it for the time being because it's the only way to get him to sleep sometimes!)
There really is no way to describe it.:)
No matter how hard, it is "love" in the best form I know.
And I wouldn't trade this time for anything.
I do have a new best friend, though, and it's name is coffee! :)