Catching Up

I have been meaning to do a quick run down on life so far...
19th Will Born... Will sleeps lots and drinks a little.
20th I add Will's name to all the Christmas cards and Will does as above and we transfer to Waitakere Hospital as North Shore is chocka! So Will has his first trip in an ambulance at 1.5 days old.
21st Will has his first bath and I am finally free of surgery associated paraphernalia so I get to have a shower too yay!! For some reason all the night midwives we have had so far are a bunch of over zealous do-good'ers who don't actually do good. You know the sort... "Oh that pillow looks uncomfortable... I'll fix it for you... Oh really you had just got comfortable after trying forever?... gee sorry." Hence...
22nd... We're going home! And not a moment too soon as the delivery ward is totally full and they are delivering babies in the neighbouring rooms. I am feeling incredibly grateful that I don't have that poor Samoan woman's Mother... because that lady wasn't taking any sh!t that girl was having that baby right now, it darn well did not hurt, and she bloody well could do it!
Will is sleeping, drinking, and needing the occasional nappy change.
23rd We hit the town. There's a bunch of jobs that need to be done and a family tradition to complete. So we head to the shore and go see Santa at Glenfield. Will gets the title of youngest on Santa's knee this year at 4.5 days old. He also draws A LOT of attention from the mass of Christmas shoppers in the mall. We grab ice creams, Will has a milk and we head for home. Phew.
24th Yipee I get to have wire that's holding my belly together pulled out... we have to go to the hospital as they are extremely busy... so another small spot of shopping. I wasn't happy about this at the time but in retrospect this is my only 'boxing day sale' type shop as Spotlight already have 50% off Christmas stuff and me,Kieran, and Will pick out some cool Russ snowmen ornaments while looking for a 'W' to alter for Will. We finally post all the Chrissy cards to those who have email and therefore have already see Will's pics. This is the latest ever for me... and it doesn't feel good.
25th Christmas day... a rough night. Will likes to be a bit more awake in the night as the lighting is dimmer and more suited to his 'new to the outside world' eyes. So we both miss the annual grab, rip, assess, discard, next! that is Christmas morning around the tree. It seems I need only supply the materials for all our Christmas Traditions I am not actually required to partake. (yeah I'm a little bitter about this one still). We swore blind the first time we had Christmas just the 4 of us at home that we wouldn't do it again- as it ends up feeling like just another weekend but with better than normal food. That's why I am absolutely rapt that I am well enough, post surgery, to take up the invite for a traditional lunch with the Rae's; Pam, Ian and Kieley. Yay... we had a good time but doh! took no photo's. Will definitely have to find a way to scrap that despite the lack of images. Kielz perhaps you can take pic's of the front of your place and the tree? The evening is spent relaxing at home... another Will bonus- no packing for the Nats on Christmas day! No Nats for us at all, YAY!!!! Will's day; sleep, drink.
26th Relax at home finally cook the ham... two days late, yeah the Will 'eye candy' can be a bit of a time waster- but he's so damn cute! Will spends the day eating and sleeping, and add a new talent to his repertoire- poo-ing. He now does three nappies to a feed... the dirty one he woke up in, the interim nappy which he dirties in the 15 short minutes he is awake for, and the cloth nappy that covers the change mat. the bonus to all this is he really hates having his nappy changed practically scares him shitless.
27th After their shopping trip the boys and I gave Will a bath while Merenia hit the pool. Initially undecided he enjoyed it in the end. The midwife came and weighed him and he's almost back to his birth weight... unsurprisingly, he's feeds like a champ, most certainly a breast man!
28th Today we're just kicking back. See...