2 weeks already!!

I can't believe two weeks has passed already. Little Ollie has proved to be a great baby so far. He sleeps well at night, during the day..... basically that is all he does (unless he's peeing all over me- gotta love having a boy). But we sure do enjoy the 20 minutes he is awake everyday. Ladd has become a very affectionate big brother and I'm starting to think I prefer when he was a little more cautious. But Ollie is able to sleep through most of the affection.

I'm feeling great, mostly because my wonderful husband has been extra wonderful these past two weeks and because of our awesome ward and friends. I don't know how I would have survived the last 2 weeks without all the help we've received. We've hardly had to cook and someone has offered to take Ladd nearly every morning and then he takes a 3 hour nap in the afternoon. We are looking forward to having some family this week, but we are so appreciative of the overwhelming service we have already received.

Now for some eye-candy.

Coming home/ Ladd

We were anxious to get home from the hospital after our one night stay. We stopped at Target on the way home to buy some essentials and a gift from baby to Ladd. We then anxiously picked up Ladd from our friends. I think Doug and I were a little apprehensive about how Ladd would react to our new addition. We placed the newly purchased dog on top of the car seat Ollie was sitting in and told Ladd it was a present for him from Ollie- his new brother. I'm not sure how much of it Ladd understood, but he immediately took a liking to his new dog and quickly named him Oddie, which strikingly sounds a lot like Ollie. Hmmm...
Ladd was still a little cautious of Ollie for the first couple of days, but has warmed up to him and all of the new baby gear.

Every morning the first thing Ladd says in the morning is "Where's Ollie?" and "Way cup Ollie!" I think this is the beginning of beautiful relationship between my boys.

But the picture below is more realistic of our everyday reality. I'll just keep my fingers crossed that Ladd doesn't teach Ollie all his naughty tricks.

Happy one week!

Here are a few new pics of our little boys - one is easier to take pictures of than the other!

Ladd found this scarf and wouldn't take it off the entire night. We dropped him off at our friends while we ran a few errands and he still had it on when we got back.

Oliver - Day 2

Thought I'd post of few more pics of the new little guy. They change so much and so quick in the first few days! He and Darci are still doing really well. Ollie got cleared to leave this morning and Darci is getting checked in the next few hours - so we could be home tonight!

I thought it would be fun to see a pic of Ladd from the day he was born. I can't wait to see these two wrestle around like little otters in our living room!

Oliver!

Well, he's already keeping us on our toes! Ollie arrived today (16 days early) at 4:10pm weighing in at 7lbs 10oz and 20.5 in long.

After 13 hours of waiting it took just 3 contractions and 1o min for him to get here (I know, I'm making it sound way easier than it really was). But, this was much easier than our last little guy. I'm sure we'll have a life full of posts about Ollie, so without further ado, here he is...

(Darci - I can't believe you just had a baby, you look amazing!!)

Here he comes....

Darci and I are at the North Memorial Hospital in Robbinsdale, MN waiting for our new addition. All is well right now - the epidural is working it's magic. We'll get an update out as soon as we can!