Week 1 with 2

Before you begin, this is quite a lengthy post. Sorry if you don't want to read long posts, but I am using this as my journal and don't want to miss any of the cuteness that is my children. And let's face , that's a lot of cuteness.....

We have had a good first week home with Kendall. He is quite the cuddler. He will sleep for hours on end if he is sleeping on someone, but would wake up every hour if he was left in his bassinet. I think he is finally getting over that since we swaddle him up, stick him in one of those pillows that have pillows on either side of his belly and one of those bears that sound like the womb. This is all craziness to me since Alianna was not a cuddler at all, she even hated being swaddled as a newborn.
Poor boy has to sit in a pink swing. We got this with Alianna and she hated it (again with the swaddling thing) but he seems to love it. Although his daddy isn't a big fan of the pink and thinks he needs to wear super manly clothes whenever he's in it.
Couldn't you just chew on those chubby cheeks? He is such a calm baby as long as you aren't changing his diaper and he is getting enough food. :) He is a crazy nurser. ArJay did not hold him for the first 2 hours of his life because he eat the whole time. My nurses said it was just because he was a big baby and he would slow down once the milk came in. It has slowed down and he even went for 3 hour long stretches last night without eating, but he is still keeping me busy. He had his first doctor's appointment at 5 days and was already almost back to birth weight( he was 8lb7oz at birth and 8lb 5oz at the appt). Our pediatrician kept exclaiming how big he was for me and asking if I had gestational diabetes.
We had my mom here until Tuesday and she was a ton of help with Alianna. I was worried about her getting enough attention still and even more when grandma left and she didn't have undivided attention anymore but she has been great. She LOVES "my baby Kendo". She is always trying to help and tells him "it's ok baby Kendo" whenever he starts crying. The other day he started crying and Alianna came running over and told me "feed him Momma" and grabbed my Hooter hider, boppy pillow, and burp rag. I still wasn't getting myself situated fast enough apparently because she started pulling down her own shirt and trying to nurse him saying " here you go Kendo".She has also tried to use my breast pump by putting on her belly button. We had to have a conversation about how only mommy can feed him that way.
My dad and brother also got to come last weekend and had a blast with the both of them. ArJay's sisters both think Kendall looks like my dad and brother so they had a lot of fun with that. It seems like whenever Alianna realizes someone is holding Kendall and he isn't eating, she needs to be the one to hold him and says" hold it baby Kendol, hold it". And don't even try to call him anything but Kendall. I have said "Hi buddy!" or "How's my little man?" and Alianna quickly corrects me and says "Not buddy, his name Kendol Momma!"
(side note: I know she is making weird faces and looks in pain, but she really is happy. This is the face she has been giving me when I say cheese lately)

She is very protective of him as well. Last night we went to visit ArJay's family and I told Alianna to get ready to go. ArJay's sister Lacey was holding Kendall at the time and Alianna flipped out. She kept saying "kendol home, Momma's Kendol, Kendol home" Apparently she was concerned we were leaving him there with Lacey. I explained that he was coming home Lacey was just holding him. I loaded him in the car seat and put the canopy down and she had to lift it up and make sure we had the right baby and insisted on "carrying" him out all the while glaring at Lacey and muttering "my baby Kendol".

As far as ArJay and I, I think we are adjusting well to 2, we seem to have our roles fleshed out better with 2 than when we adjusted to 1. Tuesday night was a LOONG night. Alianna got sick, we thought it was an ear infection actually and she was burning up. Kendall was still waking up every hour and a half to 2 hours at that point. It was humorous because literally as soon as one would fall asleep the other was up and crying. they did not wake each other with their crying but would wake within minutes of the other falling asleep. I was convinced they were conspiring against us. Normally, me might be prone to getting a little...snappy with each other(gasp). But we just laughed and talked about how they are already letting us know that the two of them totally outnumber the two of us. Maybe we were just sleep deprived and slap happy.....