Austin at 3 Months Old

I'm going to be down-right honest here-I am blessed beyond belief! I'm sure others have heard this, as did I, but the love for your baby is incredible and like no other love you have experienced before. People told me how awesome and magical it would be to be married to my best friend, and I love Stephen to death but (don't get me wrong) it's a different kind of 'magic' than marriage. Yes, it's great having my best friend be my bosom buddy and strong male figure, but there is still something different from experiencing the magic of marriage to the magic of having a baby.

3 weeks old. At this point, he still had loose skin and had not filled out yet.

At first (the first 2 weeks), being a momma was hard. I did not sleep longer than 3 hours at a time which made me exhausted and physically tired all the time. My recovery from delivery hurt SO bad! It felt like I got run over by a train. ---> Before I wrote that last sentence, I had written a great analogy on how my body felt, but Stephen read it and informed me that it was too much info for the internet and he made me erase it. You can thank him for that, I suppose. Well, besides no sleep and a train-wrecked body, I was nursing. I will leave out the explicit details of the pain of that as well. If you have questions ladies, just ask me privately and I will inform you. You'll probably want to know what to expect before you pop out a little bundle of joy too :)

6 weeks old. He IS a bundle of joy :)

All of these things made it so hard for me to get to know Austin in that time. My family kept telling me, 'It'll get better' but better seemed to be months away. I was so worn down physically and mentally. Around 3-4 weeks, things were just about back to normal for me physically, and I could finally stop fighting with those pains and instead put all my thoughts into getting to know my little sweetheart. The one thing though that kept me enthralled with Austin was the fact that God created him inside of me, practically out of nothing. It blew my mind. No one can explain to you the feeling you get when you think about that...maybe I explained that wrong. It's not quite a feeling, but a constant brain-buster as you try to wrap your mind around the fact that a human being was made while inside of your body. Miraculous.

Well, as time has progressed, Austin has become my new bosom buddy, literally. But seriously, the two of us are like buds. We hang out for hours each day and I love that I know him so well and can tell what he needs or wants at any time. I love the fact that he calms down when he sees my face and when I hold him. I love that he grins at me when I wake him up. I cover him in kisses all the time and have so many gushy names for him that will one day be embarrassing and I will no longer be allowed to call him. As of today, he is 3 months and 3 weeks old. He'll turn 4 months old two days after Christmas!

3 months! (13 weeks) He has filled out!

Today, we bought him 3 Christmas presents. 1) a bumbo seat and tray, 2) a red bow tie, and 3) red suspenders. He will of course not really love any of those, but I don't think he's quite at the age where he will 'enjoy' gifts anyway.

Posing with the gingerbread house that he great aunt Lynn made him for his 1st Christmas!