Time flys when you're having fun :)

So do you ever get used to the hours and days flying by as you watch your 1st born grow up? I can't believe that he is 3 weeks old. He has just started really recognizing my voice and looking for me when I talk to him. I can even get him to smile at me when he's awake :) It's still so weird that I can look at the clock in the morning and it's 9am and then all of a sudden it's 4:30pm in the afternoon. Crazy.

So most of the day, Landon spends cat-napping. He just really has a tough time truly sleeping for more than 1 hour at a time. It can get frustrating especially when I KNOW he is so tired.

However, when he justs wants to be awake and have me pay attention to him, I spend it singing to him. My memory of my favorite lullabies is really rusty, so I found the coolest website ever. http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/. It has all the best songs with lyrics and music to sing along with. I hope Landon doesn't mind my rusty voice. Hopefully he gets his daddy's amazing voice. Sometimes it even looks like he is trying to sing or talk too :)

Hoping to get some more video of our little squish. We had to order a replacement video camera battery charger/AC adapter. Somehow we lost the original in the hospital and we're hoping it would be found...oh well.

Well in the last week I found that Landon likes the following things: 1. Showers with daddy 2. Walks with mom in the baby bjorn

Captain: What happen?!

Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb!

Has it really been 2 weeks of Parenthood??!

It's 7am and I wake up to squeaks and squaks from the cutest little baby boy. As he wakes up he grins and almost laughs. I wonder what wonderful dreams he is coming out of??

I groggily reach over and lift him out of his cradle and his beautiful, bright blue eyes are wide open and he just wants to be cuddled and talked to. His little froggy legs tuck up under his tiny body.

After feeding this hungry monster, Tony is right there waiting to take him out of my arms and get in some daddy-cuddles before he has to leave to work. :)

I gaze into his face, I see him growing right before my eyes.

Landon...we love you and wouldn't trade you for anything. Sorry it took us so long to get ready to have you be a part of our family. :) Thank you for changing our lives for the best!

Landon's First Movie

Happy 1 week old Landon!

Tony and I can't believe that it has been 1 week since our little boy arrived. Sometimes it feels like a year has gone by. Our lives have been changed, drastically for the good.
We were discharged from the hospital on Saturday and really wanted to go home to crash. However, our AC was broken and our house was 90 deg by 5pm. So we headed over to Little America hotel where Tony's parents were staying. I kind of felt bad taking my little 3 day old baby to a hotel, but it was better than roasting in our house.

Dressed and ready to leave!

Got to love those chicken legs :)

My mom and Caleb had a short layover on their way back from Spain and got to come with us for some quick but quality cuddles.

Pretty much the rest of the week was just the 3 of us. Tony had to go back to work on Tuesday - which he tries not to be late to, but the cutest little baby boy keeps him here in the morning til the last minute :)
As for mom - well I have had some trouble adjusting to sharing my days with my little angel...

1. New sleep schedule. Little Landon is a pretty good sleeper on most nights. However, sometimes it feels like he is waking up every hour. I am a really light sleeper now...so I hear his every movement in the cradle next to our bed. Tony, on the other hand, only wakes up when an earthquake hits :)
2. Day-time plans. This is probably the hardest change I have ever felt. Not getting up to go to work at the hospital has really thrown off my groove. I kind of don't know what to do with myself. I absolutely love to cuddle my little boy all day, but I feel so "blah" cause there isn't anything to force me to get dressed, do my hair and leave the house.
3. Planning trips to the store. Wow! It is quite the ordeal to make sure Landon is fed, changed and diaper bag packed everytime I plan to leave the house. Then once we are out in the car, if he starts to get really fussy, I end up turning around and heading home anyway.

At the end of the day, I am very grateful that my little Landon is here and that he is healthy, beautiful, and most importantly mine :)

Tanning time

Hopefully only one more day before we all go home. Landon had a busy morning with his circumcision and then earned some time today beneath the bili lights. He did really well during the procedure and daddy was the honorary anesthesiologist (giving this liquid sugary stuff on his binky while Dr. Katie McElligott did the circumcision.

Little boy doesn't really like having his hair washed, but mommy doesn't like spit-up all over his little head.

Daddy saves the little boy from mommy.

Daddy calls this his Lindsay Lohan accessory. ID/theft prevention bracelet so he can't be taken off the unit.

Little Landon's favorite thing to do after nursing is to be held and sang to by daddy. Tony spent most of my pregnancy singing Billy Joel songs to my belly. So now, every time Landon is fussy, all Tony has to do is start singing to him and he instantly relaxes. What's hard to watch is when Tony gets all teary-eyed and emotional and can't finish the song :) What a softy!!

Baby Cuddles and more cuddles and more cuddles

Well, besides the exhaustion setting in, Tony and I are in heaven. Little baby boy is so much fun just to cuddle, love, watch, kiss, cuddle...more cuddles... it just never ends! Tony says if he knew how amazing it would be to have his own little boy, he would have done it years ago :) (I try not to remind him that many people told him so)

Last night was really nice. Landon slept in 3-4 hour blocks and ate really well in between. I am so grateful he caught onto breastfeeding nicely and is doing really well at it. I love the bond that I see forming every time I feed him. Then Tony gets to burp and cuddle him after. It is totally working for us :)

Here are a few more pics that we have snapped over the last couple days. Tony's really nice, totally awesome camcorder arrived today as well and he is busy learning how to use it. Hopefully we'll have some fun video to post as well. Don't worry the picture of him laying on skin is not my hairy chest. Tony's likes skin time too :)

Landon Le Roy Davis has arrived!!!

Our little baby boy already has his mother's sense of timing and organization, no induction needed, arriving as scheduled on September 1, 2010 at 10:35pm 6lbs 8oz 20 inches long!

After working a LONG day at the hospital, I got home around 6pm on Tuesday August 31st. My contractions started around 5pm and continued to get closer and stronger until about 10:30 that evening when they slowed down / stopped. Tony and I just thought...oh another false alarm. Then at 11:30 my water suddenly broke (luckily I was in the bathroom. There was NO question as I couldn't stop the gushing all the way up to the hospital.) Tony kicked into action and we were out of the house and at the hospital by midnight and excited to be on our way to having this little boy arrive.

I chose to try and have a natural as possible birth. From midnight til noon, Tony helped me move into every birthing position possible and use massage and counter-pressure to help the ever increasing painful contractions. By 2am the contractions were consistent and about every 3 min apart lasting up to 2 min each. We really thought we were going to have a straight forward "easy" birth....oh how wrong we were!

(Tony hadn't been shaving for the last week until the baby would arrive, so this was done while I was at the hospital :)

At noon, my mid-wife checked me and I was only 2 - 2 1/2 centimeters. WHAT?? That's what I was last week. I was so discouraged because I was so exhausted. Tony and I had both been up for 30 hours and I couldn't focus on anything due to the pain. I finally elected to have an epidural. After a little scare with my blood pressure dropping way low, the epidural was in, and I was off to la-la land. We both were able to sleep for a couple hours. I could still feel that the contractions were there, but no pain. It was WONDERFUL!

At 4pm I got checked again and I was now a 7!!! and 100% effaced! :) It's amazing how REST was the solution to getting my body to relax. Over the next few hours, I was comfortable but making progress. By 8pm, I was at a 9-10 and ready to push. However, I didn't realize that I was in for 2 1/2 hours of pushing before this baby would come out. He was stable during the whole labor but started to have some drops in heart rate toward the end. Also, due to a sudden show of meconium, the pediatric team and OB backup also arrived to help with the delivery.

I have NEVER experienced that much pain and intensity in life. The epidural ran out 1/2 hour before he arrived and had Tony not been the most AMAZING coach and husband ever, I really think I would have given up. Without completely checking out, I somehow had an out-of-body experience that finally allowed me to push through all the pain and get this baby out. He was totally posterior and the OB MD had to manually turn him as he was coming out. Miraculously I didn't need an episiotomy nor any instruments to help get him out. I didn't even tare!!

However, as soon as I pushed his head out, I was being yelled at not to push. They had to unravel the umbilical cord 4 times around his neck. Once they were able to untangle him from his cord, he finally started squawking!! They immediately whisked him away to suction and "resusitate" him from the meconium and cord issues. Tony followed him over to the nursery and it was about 2 hours before I was able to really hold him and bond. But in the end, it was ALL WORTH IT!!!

 I now am the proudest mommy of the most beautiful baby boy. He is wonderful and Tony and I have to stop ourselves from crying from joy every time we look at him!