Our New Little Man

I have been slow in getting pictures up of our new little guy, Adam Robert Thornley. I hope I am forgiven. Adam and I both just had our two week check-ups and are now cleared for all activities. So I finally have permission to blog :)

Anyway, everything went well. We reported to the hospital at 5 am. Which meant we had to get up at 4:15 am. Adam was born at 8:03 a.m. There were no complications for the baby. He weighed in at 8 pounds and 5.75 ounces. I had almost no problems except for the motion sickness after the operation. Everytime the nursing staff tried to move me after the operation, I got sick. It would make a cool real life baby doll feature, but wasn't so fun for me. (The hospital nurses, doctors and even food service were all so wonderful. I would do it all again happily IF we were going to, but we aren't!) I was released from the hospital Saturday afternoon and have done really well since being home. It helps tremendously that my mom is here for almost a full month.

Adam has been described by his pediatrician, the nurses and Perry's speach therapists as being mellow. I agree with this mostly. The exception is night time. But he is a great baby. He likes to be REALLY WARM. I mean, we live in AZ, and the daytime temps this week are in the 70's, but he still likes two to three blankets and preferrably a warm body underneath him (he loves to sleep on people.) He lost a little bit too much weight at first (move than 10%), but is quickly gaining it all back.

There are two new pieces of baby care info (so far) that amaze me considering Perry is only almost three years old. One is, the protocol for umbilical cord care. You no longer clean it all the time with alcohol. You just let it dry up by itself unless it starts oozing or smelling. My other kids had their cords still at the two week check up. Adam lost his at day nine. Wow! I also learned that breast fed babies, even in sunny AZ, need Vitamin D supplementation. Who knew?

Well, that is the update. Randal is doing great, but needing sleep. Same with me. Parker and Peter have pretty much carried on as usual. They love their new brother, but are also quite busy themselves. Parker has had an exciting time lately too with a birthday and Arrow of Light (I hope to update soon on that.) The real blessing/surprise has been Perry. We thought there would be tons of jealousy. Perry can be pretty rough and still doesn't talk well. But with Adam he has turned out to be a fabulous big brother and he is even talking better in just the past two weeks. He has also started telling us when he needs a new diaper which means someday I may be able to potty train him. YAY!!!

That's about all for now.