Nurse Visit

We did not get it posted yesterday, but Will had a nurse from Christus Santa Rosa come by the house to visit yesterday. The service that the hospital has provided has been incredible! It was a routine visit in which she just visited with Bridget and looked at Will. The biggest things were that Will has gained weight since birth, he weighed 8 lbs 4 oz. She also took the little clamp off of his umbilical cord. The nurse said that Bridget was doing a great job! We will post some more pictures later. We have had lots of visitors lately and we greatly appreciate that. It is so much fun for me to get to show Will off. Again, thank you all for all the help and support.

Will's day out

Will had his first big outing today.  Mom, Will and Nana went to Babies R Us in The Forum to get a few things...he did great!  Slept the whole time; got home and ate, then went back to sleep.   It was really nice to be out-and-about on such a beautiful day!

Hanging With The Girls

Well I had to go back to work today. It was good to see everybody at work, but boy has it been so nice getting to be home with Bridget and Will. We are extremely grateful that everybody at work made it possible for us to have almost a week of quality family time. Bridget's mom drove down to spend the day with her since I was gone and I think she was able to rest a little since she could trust her mom to take care of Will. I think she still is not quite sure about me watching over him. She is such a good mom, we have learned so much in such short period of time! She is feeling a lot better today. Will had another bath and enjoyed every minute of it. We have really enjoyed all of your comments to the posts. I hope all of you are well.

Miracle

It truly is amazing less than 9 months ago what is now a beautiful young boy that is in my wife's arms tonight came from this! Life will resume somewhat for me tomorrow. Even though I regret that I will not be able to be with Will all day I know that Bridget will do a great job with him and it brings me great comfort that our family and friends are so very helpful.

Everybody Loves Bath Time

Will got his second bath last night, he seems to enjoy watching/listening to the water in the sink. He seemed refreshed and happy after the sponge bath, so much so he wanted to stay up until around midnight! Bridget let me sleep most of the night and she says she got some sleep. She is feeling better today than yesterday. Evening visitors are hard for her, but it is great to have company through the day. The Kehoes came over this morning and saw Will, it was great to see them! The Voelzels are also coming by sometime today. Grandma and Grandpa Symm and hopefully Uncle Danny are coming over to visit later today. Again, thank you all for the love and support, we are supremely blessed.

Will's Boys

What a motley bunch Will's grandpas and Uncle Danny make! Again, we can't tell y'all enough how much it meant for each of you to be with us Tuesday to welcome Will into the world. Bridget and Will are napping and I am watching a little college football. Can you believe Tech, 63-21 over Kansas? Looks like Tech is going to win the Big 12 because there is no doubt in my mind that the high school team we have over in College Station is going to spoil t.u.!

Daytime is good

So far, Will has fallen into a schedule that works for him and we are adjusting to. He did great all day yesterday, but he still is not really interested in going to sleep until about 11:30-12:00 am. However, he has been sleeping until about 3:30 am. He then wants to nurse, be changed and then go back to sleep. It seems like with time we can get adjusted to this easy enough. The biggest thing right now is that Bridget is engorged and really sore. She really does seem to have TONS of milk, even though she is expressing regularly as well. Will was weighed yesterday at the lactation consultant and he actually had not lost an appreciable amount of weight. When we left the hospital he was 7 lbs 9 oz, while yesterday he was 7 lbs 8 1/2 oz. Last night Doyle, Katy and Kyle came over for diner and Ian stopped by on his way to go hunting and spent the night. Understandingly due to her engorgement, Will felt more up to socializing than Bridget did. The goal for today, as Cindy the nurse would say, is REST, ice and frequent nursing! If anybody has any good tips let us know. He really seems to like his bouncy/swing seats that Bridget's cousin gave him. Do you think Ian is ready for fatherhood? Check out the 4:00 am picture below.