Chill Baby

Before we get to baby Mac, first a sorority pic of Kyle & Tucker.

Sweet little Mac... Have we mentioned how much he looks like Tucker? These pictures could be Tucker at 5 weeks...
Mac is doing well considering his first 5 weeks have included getting RSV, a hospital stay, a double ear infection & topping it all of with being dropped off the bed by his mother when they fell asleep nursing at 1:30am. Poor, poor baby. He has to be chill. He's been through so much in his short little life.

We went to the doctor today for various reasons listed above and he is still growing like a weed... he is 10 pounds and getting chunkier by the day.

Things are going well around here now. We have settled in and Mac is sleeping a little bit more each night. The doctors haven't wanted me to let him go very long at night, but today I got the okay to let him sleep, so hopefully we'll get some better chunks of sleep. He seems ready.

Starting to smile this week!

1 month

His big brother can make him smile...

I wish I had a scanner to put these pictures next to Tucker pics. Week by week they are identical.

And sometimes he cries.

The RSV is now behind us. Praise God! This just has to be documented -- the breathing treatments. Pitiful... and it looks like we are drugging our child which we found mildly amusing.

In the midst of all that my mom and Brian were here. This is Uncle Bri's Christmas present for Tuck... for his new big boy bike. Tucker keeps yelling me he can now go down "super fast ramps!" We aren't sure what this pose was, but he also has on a Nascar Halloween costume to complete the look.

And Tucker really liked Brian's gear - the kid loves an Apple product. He can work an IPhone and IPod better than most adults who own them. Scary.

RSV

Unfortunately this is where we spent New Year's Eve and New Year's... Mac was diagnosed with RSV on Monday and by Wednesday early morning was running a fever that required admission to the hospital. He is actually doing really well now and it never got as bad as it could have. We are hopeful we are on the upswing now - but they have a mandatory 48 hour hospital stay for newborns under 4 weeks with a fever. Poor baby!

Brotherly love

Before Christmas Eve service.

He's not a huge fan of Tucker holding him.

Tucker's Christmas

the new bike...
Aunt Terry hit the jackpot with the easel -- Tucker loves himself an art project!

Spoiled little boy... look at all those toys! He would open each toy and want to set it up and play with it before he moved to the next -- he really appreciated each gift which was fun to watch.

Tucker and Daddio wrote a letter to Santa and put out a personally decorated cookie and carrots for the reindeer!Yet another classic sleeping position. Every night he claims how not tired he is... and then 30 seconds later he is out.

2nd week of life

Sweet Mac. Sleeping well. Eating well. And that's pretty much it.

Ultimate Bed Head

Tummy Time

Early Christmas

Could the child be any more excited? He has been wanting a kitchen FOREVER and we kept telling him we didn't have room. We finally decided to give up the corner of our dining room -- he was so extremely pumped! Thanks Nan & Pop! We did early Christmas since they won't be here for Christmas. Thanks Uncle Casey & Aunt Betsy for the food! (Especially the toaster - his favorite part!)

Mimi had the stork delivered to the house. So cute!

FYI

My perfect Christmas forecast.

From Friday

What Tuck has been up to...

Comparing foot sizes

Leaving school with Pop Christmas program at school - this year Tucker was up there belting out every word!

Loving on baby bro with Nan

Looking MAD in his "Mac the Happy Apple" shirt. Mimi's friend Lois Simon wrote this precious children's book called Mac the Happy Apple and there are shirts!

He has also been busy seeing what he can get away with. Big Bird has been his baby - so Big Bird ended up in the Moses Basket at one point.

then in the car seat. He's telling me not to touch him here.

Then Daddio and Tuck took all the oranges off the tree and began a massive juicing endeavor that is not even close to being over.

Overall Tucker is loving Mac -- more importantly he has enjoyed all the slumber parties at Mimi's with Nan and Pop staying there, too. He has gotten LOTS of attention and he loves that. He is being really sweet with baby Mac - although "gentle" is such a relative term at age 3.

Name Confusion

Mac looks so much like Tucker that I think I've only gotten his name right about two times. It is frightening -- I feel like I'm in a three year time warp.