The Last Two Weeks

Two weeks ago our handsome little boy, Ryker, entered this crazy world. Thankfully my wonderful sister-in-law, Tammy, posted immediately for me letting everyone know about and see our wonderful new addition to our family. Thank you sooooooooooo much Tammy. Well, I am now finally feeling like I am surfacing from the craziness of a new baby and will just post a bunch of pictures from the last two weeks with brief summaries. And when I said a bunch of pictures, I mean a bunch. So sorry if it gets really long, we are just trying to catch up with a really eventful two weeks.

Here he is in his birthday suit-literally.

I think my doctor is completely amazing and one of the many many many reasons I think so is that he saw Tory trying to get a ton of pictures so he then voluteered to take this first family photo. What a great man.

The two most handsome men in the world, especially to me.

One of the first pictures of mommy and son. And yes, that is me being the NICU nurse giving my son blow by oxygen because he was grunting and I was not about to have them send him to the NICU. So I had my labor nurse get the oxygen so we could get him over that little hump. Hooray, no NICU stay this time.

Pictures of the two of us with our two kids. We have yet to have a picture of the four of us together, we will work on that in the near future.

Each of us with our little man on the day that BOTH he and I got to come home. What a change to come home together. We kept joking with the nurse about what perscriptions or medical equipment were they going to send us home with. She would laugh and say that we would get to take home a baby and carseat. Hooray!!!

The going home outfit. That's our little Buckaroo.

Coming home with Mommy and Daddy!!!

The Grandma that helped mommy out so much and thus helped little Ryker stay in the oven until he was more ready to come to this world.

The Grandpa who had to give up grandma to help out mommy. By the way, I think that my siblings and I all have a picture with my dad and ourselves in this very same pose. What better way to take a nap.

He ended up getting jaundice so the first two days home he had this special phototherapy bed. Why we asked ourselves? Just because we wouldn't know what to do if we didn't have some sort of medical equipment.

Here is the first bath at home. Michelle is such a super sister and great helper.

Grandpa and Grandma doing what grandparents do best, loving on a cute grandbaby.

Like I said before a busy two weeks. The pictures above Tory just happened to take as Michelle took her first independent steps from Grandma to Grandpa. Then her happy high five to Daddy.

I found Michelle like this one morning when I got out of the shower. She has decided that Ryker is cute enough to keep now.

It still amazes me that we have been so blessed to get two completely beautiful children in our lives. We love them so much and can't wait to see the amazing things they will do in the future.