13 lbs. and counting...

That's right! Wilson weighed in at 13 lbs. 1 oz. at his 8 week check up, the boy is growing fast. He had also grown 2 3/4 inches!! The boy even decided to roll over! He went from his front to his back. This past week has been getting better with less crying and more night sleeping. He's a tough kid to put up with the love slaps that his sister gives everyday. Today he was even lucky enough to get a soccer ball to the belly. Two year olds can more fast when they know they are going to get in trouble.

Speaking of trouble...Madelyn seems to have come into a new phase of testing Mommy and peeing her pants again. We knew this would come and it is now happening at about the 2 month mark. The potty training part I can handle, the talking back and screaming to get her way, and hair pulling, well those things aren't acceptable. We take each day, one step at a time and I am trying to read an extra book to just her and give extra hugs. Maybe my little angel, sweet gentle child will return.

First Smile

Wilson is starting to be awake much more during the day and evening. He likes to kind of take cat naps during the morning. Maybe it is just me, but I seem to have been blessed with two children that don't really nap. I would call it resting or snoozing because they only sleep for about 10 minutes and then they wake up again!!

We are going on day two with Madelyn not taking any true nap so we will see how the dinner goes. Last night she fell asleep at the table before we even sat down. The problem was, she had a bite of carrot in her mouth. She wasn't too happy when Daddy had to fish that one out.

Anyway, back to the title of my post.... Wilson is now smiling!!! The books call this a "social" smile, but any smile I get from either of our kiddos brightens my day. He is also starting to coo a little bit, but Madelyn reminds me that he doesn't know how to talk yet.

Family Pictures

To all the photographers out there, I hope you have learned the art of patience when it comes to taking pictures of families with small children. We had some family pictures taken at our house last week and Wilson cried the whole time. When he wasn't crying Madelyn was upset because she wasn't getting her picture taken and then she would start crying. The whole cycle went on for a good hour and a half while we tried to get a few good shots. All and all we ended up with tons of great pictures and I am having a hard time decided what to get printed!

He's a BIG Boy.

Wilson (4 weeks) getting a bath

Poppy Joe and Wilson hanging out

Wilson and his binky, a match made in heaven!

Wilson is quite the little man these days. He has taken a liking to sleeping only in his swing during the day time. I guess that is my fault a little, last week when he was a little sick he slept in it day and night and now he really likes the constant motion. Madelyn will tell anyone that steps foot in our house, "That swing takes batteries and we don't want to run out!" I guess I said that comment in a moment of Wilson screaming and coughing last week.

We will soon have our first family portrait with Wilson included. Last night our babysitter (who is also a photo journalism major at Ball State) came over to take pictures of our whole family and a few of Wilson for his birth announcement. I should have thought through the fact that early evening is when he cries, a lot. I remember Madelyn doing the same thing around this age, I would say it is colic but you never know. I do know that we were very happy when she grew out of that stage and we will be very happy when Wilson does the same. Usually a walk in the stroller helps, but not always, and at the end of a long day Mommy is too tired to think about going out on a walk.

Summer is here!

Summer is officially here. Madelyn has gone to the neighborhood pool, planted her garden and played in the hose. Of course Wilson didn't join in on any of those activities, but he was able to nap peacefully inside while they occurred. He is lucky to have a nap without being woken up by kisses and lovin' from his Big Sis.

I thought it would be fun to update with a few pictures of our last week or so. Wilson is already changing quite a bit and as you can see in the pictures, getting much bigger.

The Big Sister

Madelyn, Daddy and Wilson

Mommy, Wilson and Madelyn after bath time

Wilson's arrival home from the "Baby Hospital"

It's a tough life!

Fancy Nancy aka "Madelyn"

Now that we are on our own and the Grandmas have all gone home things are slowly getting back to normal. Well, things are becoming more routine. Madelyn is taking on the role of Big Sister much better and is learning to be gentle with Wilson. The poor boy has a lot of lovin' coming his way from his Sis. One thing that has helped a lot is when friends come get Madelyn to go and play, she feels special and I get a little bit of time to rest or clean or just to feed the baby with out having to help a toddler in the bathroom at the same time! I am learning to multi-task on a whole new level!

I figured that we needed to share some more pictures of Madelyn and Wilson. You will notice that she has some pretty interesting outfits on in some pictures. She is dressing herself and it is not worth my breath to talk her out of some of the clothes. As long as they are warm enough for the weather I'll let her wear most things that she picks out.

Today Madelyn is at a friend's house all afternoon so I am planning on taking a nice long nap with Wilson. I hope he got the memo about afternoon sleeping!

It's a BOY!!!!!!

There's a saying that says, "Life is what happens while you are busy making plans." I'm not sure who said those words of wisdom but they were right in so many situations. Last week I was busy making all sorts of "plans" for what to do and where to take Madelyn in case I went into labor early. I was also very busy making sure that last minute things like finally getting curtains for the formal living room before the new baby was born. I think I wanted to have everything in the house "just perfect" before we had visitors and before I wasn't feeling like doing anything.

Well, Saturday was a full day of activity for our whole family, we went to brunch, shopping for curtains, cleaned out the cars, went to a birthday party and finished installing the new kitchen appliances. It was a day that kept us all busy even the baby!

Early Sunday morning, around 2:00 a.m. I started waking up and I would just go to the restroom and try to go back to sleep. I tried and failed doing that until about 3:00 a.m. when I decided to get in the shower. Once I got out of the shower my contractions were 4-6 minutes apart and I called my doctor on-call. She said that we needed to come on in and get it checked out. We took Madelyn to a neighbors house and arrived at the hospital around 4:20 a.m. Next thing I knew we were signing paperwork and I was walking back into the OR. At 6:42 a.m., Wilson Christopher Lueck joined our family, weighing in at 8 lbs. 12 oz. and measuring 20.5 inches.

We were both a little surprised to find out that our new baby was a boy, but we are so excited about our big- little man. So far his sister likes him and she calls him "her boy". When we came home from the hospital yesterday she said that she didn't like him to be at our house. I guess it was okay when he was at the baby hospital, but not the house. She is handling the changes very well but I'm not her favorite person right now, especially when Wilson is nursing.

Enjoy the pictures