We have had two new things enter our lives this past week. First of all, we got a new Volkswagon Jetta TDI and secondly, we had our baby boy. I will spare the details of the delivery, but on Tuesday morning Colin Brock McGee was born. Luckily, Grandma and Papa were here along with Aunt Mic and Uncle Mark. We came home Wednesday morning to Aspen, Demon, and Kelty. Madison is like a second mother to her baby brother. She is so happy to sit and hold him all day and loves to stare at him in his crib. She doesn't like it when someone takes him from her or if he gets upset and starts crying, or if he's sleeping and can't hold him. Miss Madison has had a couple of rough moments when I can't put her to bed because I am nursing Colin or if Daddy and Papa go on a bike ride, but she has done very well. I of course have mothers guilt and have my moments where I start crying because it has just been Madison and I for three years and now I have to figure out how to share equal time between her and Colin and the last thing I want is for her to be sad that I'm not there for her when I have always been there for her, but the one thing that terrifies me most is when Mom and Dad leave and JR works his 24 hrs and I have to get Madison down for bed and watch the baby. How am I going to do it without all of us ending up in tears?
Madison practicing feeding her baby
Miss Madison giving her baby kisses
Daddy, Mommy and baby Colin
Mommy and baby Colin
Daddy holding baby Colin for the first time (he never took his jacket off :)
Papa with baby Colin
Our new family... Daddy, Mommy, Madison, and Colin
Madison was excited about something on tv
Colin Brock McGee
Madison holding Colin, but concentrating on tv
Uncle Mark and Colin
Aunt Mic and Colin
Grandma, Madison, and Colin
Baby Colin, first day home
Colin and Madison (Madison loves him so much)
This kiddo is going to be so lucky to have Madison as a big sister
Colin Brock McGee... 7 lbs 11 oz... born 2:36 am
Colin's first walk with madison and Daddy
Daddy, Colin, and Mommy
Madison and Colin (her new morning routine is to hold her brother)
watching Colin sleep
Kelty, Grandma and Colin
Grandma and Madison making cookies
Colin getting some sun for his jaundice
After 12+ years JR finally traded his truck in and being the mature adult he is, he decided to get a diesel car for the great gas mileage... he now has the Pathfinder and I get the Jetta
I am not very good at adapting to change, but Colin has been a wonderful baby so far. He pretty much only gets fussy when he is hungry and other than that he sleeps all the time. I get up to feed him about twice a night and then Grandma rocks him for a couple of minutes and he's back in bed. I really hope that we can keep that routine, but with JR taking over Mom's role because I feel like I can survive on this sleep, but I keep waiting for the good luck to change, but Mom says not to create problems.
