The Vakakes Family: Home!

We got to come home with sweet Alex on Saturday morning. I have never been so ready to be home in my whole life. 3 nights in a hospital with nurses in and out ALL DAY LONG and not being able to spend a lot of time with Will was about to make me crazy. I missed that little guy more than I ever thought I would. I was so ready for us all to be at home together and start trying to figure it all out. And guess what??!! It hasn't been bad! As I have said with many things on this blog, I think the anticipation makes it far worse than the actual experience. This was no different. I had a million questions as to how this would go, how Will would react, how we would get used to a newborn again, how we would handle being sleep deprived again.....granted we are only a few days in but we have been making it just fine. Will is an awesome big brother. He LOVES Alex. He asks for him first thing in the morning. He loves to watch him and loves giving him kisses on his face. He has been a little overly excited at times around Alex...for some reason he loves to touch/gouge his eyes. He also likes to touch his hair really hard. We are working on listening to mommy and daddy the FIRST time :) Overall though he has done great! I am going to send him to school on Tuesdays and Thursdays this summer and I think tomorrow he will be excited to see his friends and get back into a routine.
The hardest thing I have found so far is figuring out how to share my time. Thankfully my mom was around today which gave me a lot of play time with Will. I want to make sure that he doesn't feel left out or that the baby is getting too much attention. I know in a few weeks we will have it down, but for now we are trying extra hard to keep his life the exact same. John and I still manage to do books and bed together with him-this was really important to me. I loved this time before Alex came and didn't want to have to give it up. I am sure it will get a bit more challenging, but for now it is a sweet moment for us to still read to him, say his prayers together, and tuck him in. And as for the lack of sleep, I have always said I am a firm believer that the Lord just prepares you for that part of the deal and you really don't feel all that bad, even though when you think about how often you were up at night, you should be exhausted! The second time around to me seems so much easier-probably because we feel at least a little confident that we know what is going on because we have been through it once and Will didn't turn out so bad :) I feel like both John and I are much less stressed and much more relaxed about things. Alex is a very chill baby and I don't know if this is because we are more laid back about things or if this is just the role of the second child. He has been an absolute angel. I have barely heard him cry. He just whimpers when it is getting close to eating time. He is content in our arms, in his swing, in the bassinett, in his lounger.....anywhere! Okay...here are some pictures of our first few days home!

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