Already 12 days old!

I thought it was time I updated this with a few photos of Fergus, since the only ones I posted last time were from the day he was born! :-) It's hard to believe he's already 12 days old - nearly 2 weeks! The days just pass so quickly. He got weighed by the health visitor today and is now 10lbs 7oz - that's only 1oz less than being a whole pound heavier than he was at birth! So it's quite clear he's thriving and putting on the weight!

Photo from today - bit of a funny/cute face here! :-)

With Deborah today - she adores him! Never mind that she cried after my 20 week scan when she found out she *wasn't* getting a baby sister - she loves him SO much!

My big wee guy at 3 days old

4 days old - looking up to big brother Elijah!

Elijah is still very much in love with is brother! He's not the *least* bit jealous at all! In fact, rather the opposite - he thinks I should *always* be looking after the baby - like should hold him all the time! :-) Even when Fergus is happily sleeping in his pram, Elijah will say "Your baby needs a cuddle" or "Your baby needs a feed" or "You should look after your baby"! :-) I think he thinks the baby is very much a part of me and should always be with me. It's quite sweet how he thinks about him.

Elijah drawing pictures and colouring.

6 days old - "hanging out" with mummy when the others were asleep in the evening! Some evenings he seems to want to feed a fair bit before I go to bed, but I think it's just stocking up for the night. He just sleeps at night and doesn't keep me up at all! :-D I can't complain!

8 days old - with Abigail

I got my camera out to take a photo of these two - biggest & smallest boy! :-) But of course, all the others wanted a photo of them holding Fergus too.

Elijah and Fergus - love his wee mouth in this one!

Clement and Fergus

Deborah and Fergus

We've had lots of cold & rainy days lately, so here they were doing an autumn craft last week to keep them occupied in the afternoon. Older ones busy while smallest 2 boys were napping.

And a puppet show at the end, with their scarecrows they made!

Deborah with her puppet! :-)

We started back at lessons on Monday this week - they got an extra week of school last week after baby was born. But I'm feeling great and we were all ready to get back into a normal routine. My blood pressure hasn't yet returned to normal (and was still a bit high early this week) but I'm feeling fine. Hopefully it will be back down soon. I know it took about 12 days to come down after Elijah was born, and it had only been up for less than 2 weeks. So, 8 weeks on now from when it went up, who knows how long it will take to sort itself out - but hopefully soon! But otherwise, I'm thankful for a good recovery and a very happy, calm, and chilled out baby boy! It feels good to return to a bit of normality and very good to have a break from the past 9 months of nausea and vomtting all through his pregnancy! One of the most wonderful things is being able to drink water again - it made me feel sooo sick to have more than a sip of water here and there. So it's great to be able to drink a whole glass of it now! And being able to enjoy vegetables again and get back to the "Trim Healthy Mama" way of eating I was following before! I felt healthy & energetic following that plan of eating, and since getting back to it when Fergus was 5 days old, I'm already feeling the benefits again - it's great!