Flashback: Landon's First Week

So I originally was thinking of doing a post about Landon's first month, and then started looking at all the pictures I had and decided that was ridiculously unrealistic. So we'll take a flashback to his first week.

The theme of this week was crying. My post-birth hormones were flowing in abundance, causing me to cry at absolutely everything that first week or two (not like, sad or upset tears, more like, every "first" moment sentimental or just-look-at-you-and-realize-how-much-I-love-you-and-burst-out-crying tears.) I also took pictures of absolutely everything that first week (well really the whole first month)

Landon was born on a Sunday and we left the hospital to bring him home around 4:30 on Tuesday. I cried the entire time we changed him out of his hospital clothes into his "coming home" outfit because I was just thinking about how crazy it was that we were really taking him home. Then I sat next to him in the backseat on the 5 minute drive home to make sure he did ok in his car seat for the first time. And yes I cried the whole way home.

Riding in the car for the first time!

 I pulled myself together enough to take pictures of every step of bringing him home for the first time.

Getting him out of the car

Walking in the front door

 I actually have 3 or 4 other pictures in between the two above pics, but decided to shorten down the picture book for you :)

Looking soooo small in his carseat!

 His coming home outfit said "This is what Handsome looks like." It was adorable. However, I bought it in size 3 months thinking he'd be able to wear it longer that way than a newborn size, so it was enormous on him. We couldn't even put the matching pants on because they just fell off. Good thing he was born on a warm September day!

We got him home and swaddled him up and then introduced him to his room for the first time. Kyle was a great husband and ran to the store and came home to make breakfast burritos for us for dinner. They were delicious. The rest of the evening was spent watching a movie, snuggling with Landon, and probably tearing up 20 or so times.

We decided to put him to bed around 10 or 11 so we changed him into his jammies for the first time. They were a gift from one of the girls in my Bible study. They were my favorite pair of his newborn sized jammies.

 The had space ships on them and little aliens on the feet and said "Out of this world" He looked soooo cute in them. 

Of course as we laid him in bed I started bawling, partially out of the sentimentality of his first night at home, and partially because I kept asking Kyle, "What if he stops breathing and we don't hear him from our room?!?!" But we had already decided to just start him off in his crib, seeing as how you could touch the door frames of his room and our room standing in the hallway, so he wasn't far away. I just remember how the crib just swallowed him up - he looked so tiny!

 Here's how he was sleeping in the morning when I went in to check on him.

Too precious

He of course woke up to eat every 2 hours or so that first night, and he also had a hard time falling back asleep sometimes because he'd knock his pacifier out of his mouth on accident and start crying. After two nights of extremely small amounts of sleep we decided to start swaddling him in his velcro swaddle blanket to sleep in at night - best decision!

Those first few days are mostly a blur of cuddling with Landon all the time, taking lots of pictures, many hours spent feeding him, and a lot of tiredness. But we were just so in love! On multiple occasions per day I would just look down at Landon sleeping and start bawling because I just loved him soooooo much! You don't realize your heart's capacity to instantly love someone until you have a child. I still say that Kyle is the person I love more than anyone else in the world, but the way I love Landon is different. With Kyle I grew to love him as I got to know him and his character, but with Landon it was like the instant I saw him I would have thrown myself in front of a train for him. He hadn't done anything to "earn" my love (other than cause me a lot of labor pain, ha!) but I just loved him so unconditionally right away.

On Wednesday night we gave him his first bath at home.

 He was not very happy about his first bath and cried most of the time. However I think it's because we didn't have the water warm enough, because on subsequent baths when we made the water a little warmer, he seemed to like them from then on.

Happier bundled up in his towel

On Friday we took him to his pediatrician for his check up.

Waiting for the Doctor!

 When Landon was born he weighed 7 lbs. 10 oz. and when we left the hospital on Tuesday he was down to 7 lbs. 4 oz. By his checkup on Friday he was up to 7 lbs. 13 oz.!! Our doctor was very impressed that he had already surpassed his birth weight. He was a good eater from the very start!

Then Saturday we suited up to watch his first K-State football game! (from home online of course).

Cutest little Wildcat

And on his one week birthday on Sunday my sister Mandy, her husband Travis, and my niece Alycen came to see Landon for the first time.

"It's touching me!"

Alycen was very unsure of him from the start. Good thing they're finally great friends now! It was fun for them to all get to meet Landon and snuggle him though!

All in all, it was a wonderfully happy first week with our sweet boy.

Just happy

And here's our first ever video of Landon from when he had the hiccups Wednesday night after his bath. Even his hiccups were adorable!!