Mystery Shower Gift - Itzbeen

So, the following shower gift came via the mail from Target, but it did not say who had sent it. We use it all of the time, but want to know who to thank! If you sent the Itzbeen, please let us know since Target won't tell us... :-)

Update from home

Sebastian has now been home for a week and it is so nice to just be home. He has had some good nights and some not so good nights, but all is as expected with a newborn. It's hard to believe that it was 4 weeks ago today that our journey into sudden parenthood started. It's hard to believe that Sebastian is already 4 weeks old. Time has gone by so fast and yet so slow at the same time. We had some pictures taken on Monday by our good friend and amazingly talented photographer, Danica Cooper. Since we can't go to public places with Sebastian yet, Danica came to our house to take some pics. Here are some of our favorites:

Swing Rides

Sebastian has discovered the swing... they used a swing one night at the hospital when he was fussy and wanting to be held, but that was the only other time that he had been in a swing. We have 2 swings at home, one for upstairs (aka: middle of the night swing) and one for downstairs (aka: I need to cook swing). We weren't sure how he was going to like the swing since he hadn't really used one with us before. This morning we thought we'd give it a try. I needed to get dinner started in the slow-cooker, and Mark was getting ready to head out for a flight. So, we got the swing out and set-up, and Sebastian loved it. For the first 15 minutes or so, he was looking around at everything with a big smile, then he proceeded to fall fast asleep. Now, granted, he only takes up 1/2 of the swing and we have to fill the rest with receiving blankets, it just makes it extra cozy for him. Here are some pics of his first swing ride at home:

Home Sweet Home

So, now that we are home everyone has been wondering how Sebastian has been doing. He has been great! Our first night home we wanted to stay up late and be held until the wee hours of the morning, but wasn't fussy, just wanted to be held. He slept the rest of the night and all morning after that to make up for it though. He slept all night last night with the exception of waking up to feed and proceeding to go right back to sleep afterwards. Can't complain with that for his second night home. He also has periods of being awake during the day in which he is alert and happy, but we haven't really had times in which he is fussy (unless we are dressing him or changing his diaper).

He's been having fun checking out all of his new toys that he didn't have at the hospital too. We are enjoying being able to pick him up and hold him without the hospital leads being plugged into the monitors. He had his first bath at home last night and did really well with it. We were bracing ourselves for the bloody murders screams, but they never happened.

It has been great having him home as well as my parents here the past couple of days. This weekend we will be on our own outside of visitors, so we will see how that goes :-) Sebastian can have visitors, just not too many any one time, no one with a cough/cold/etc, and be prepared to wash your hands plenty :-)

Here are some pics from him being home:

Bath Time

Playing with Daddy

Sleeping :-)

Sebastian is home!!

We wanted to thank everyone for the thoughts and prayers over this last couple of weeks! We have now luckily closed one chapter of this journey and are beginning a new journey, one with less hospital visits!!!

I couldn't wait to get to the hospital this morning to find out how last night went, so I called first thing to check-in. All of the nurses know us so well now, they knew exactly why I was calling :-) They let me know that he had a great night and the doctor was working up all of the final discharge itemss as we spoke. When we arrived at the hospital after Mark was done with work at 10:15am, they had everything all ready for us. We went over all of the discharge items over the next 90 minutes and gave him his last meal in a hospital. And off to home we went :-) Here are some pics from today and the past couple of days.

Another Good Night...

Well, Sebastian had another great night last night. If he keeps this up, we will only have two more nights in the hospital. We thought tomorrow would be our last day, but the last Brady that he had was actually at 1am on Friday morning, rather than Thursday night, which moves us from a Tuesday discharge goal to Wednesday. It's a bummer, but what is one more night at this point in time. I can tell you that Mark and I probably won't be sleeping well the these two nights though since we have been close to discharge before. Time for lots of prayers that he is over these Bradycardia episodes!!! Other than that, he is sleeping well (starting to get his days and nights straightened out some), eating really well and still charming all of the nurses. He very rarely cries, usually only when we are changing his diaper or when he is hungry. He has been very easy to soothe as well, so we are hoping that this will continue at home. The nurses tell us it will and that he would have shown his "true colors" by now if he was going to be much different, espcecially since we are at the hospital most of the day every day.

So, here is to the next two nights!!!

Here are some recent pics of the little guy, hope you enjoy!!

New Nicknames

So, since I posted the other day on what we were planning on calling Sebastian for a nickname/short name, we have had different people letting us know what they have been calling him as well. Now that the nurses know about Ian, the ones that we are close with are all calling him Ian; His Grandpa Jim is calling him Seby; his Grandpa Bob is calling him Sebas (See-Bass) as is his Aunt Cheri & Kate; and we are still calling him Sebastian until he get's his little bootie home :-) We'll see what other nicknames pop up as he gets a little older. If anyone has any other nicknames that they are using for Sebastian, let us know as we are keeping it all to go in his baby book.