Spring Springing Forth

Spring has always been a rather magical time to me. Watching new growth, leaves and buds appear on naked branches is something I have always done with wonder; nature is an amazing thing. I love bulbs, planting in the fall/winter and forgetting, and several months later, watching as they spring forth from the earth and fill our world with color.
I was a little crazy this last fall and bought a bag of 75 tulip bulbs. I can't help myself when it comes to flowers, it is something that is so simple, yet so beautiful, and makes me so happy. I've learned that if something makes me so easily happy like that, then go with it! But anyways, my insanity has finally paid off, and I have had beautiful tulips to gaze at outside of my window. Yellow, purple, red, and more that haven't flowered yet so who knows what they will be? I finally cut some of the red the other day and brought them inside, something I love to be able to do, bring the beauty from the outside in!

I find the way the inside of flowers look to be wonderful as well, the outside of the petals one deep, rich color, the inside hiding a surprise of some sort. This one reminds me of an eye looking up at the sky, watching the clouds and birds flowing by. What a life to live!

Five Weeks

I sit here in absolute amazement looking at the calendar; it has been five weeks today since my little bundle of joy joined us here in the great big outside world. I look back over the past weeks and can't believe that it has only been five, it feels more like fifty! How much he has grown, and changed already shows how much more there is to come in the future weeks and years. How much Sean and I have grown and changed as well. It is amazing to think on the past, how five weeks ago at this very time we were still at the birth center, possibly visiting with our families who had come to welcome Rowan into the world. That five weeks ago was our first night at home together as a family, the two new parents asking each other what he should wear to bed that night.  How I was terrified to even pick him up for the fear of hurting him. Amazement at how much we have grown together as a family, how this is my family.

I look at the past week and think of how much he has changed this week alone; looking us in the eye, starting his own baby jabber language, discovering his hands, sleeping so much better at night. How scooting is now an exercise event for the whole family to enjoy. He is helping us mold our family sculpture into being, how I am as a mother, and Sean as a father. It truly is amazing to watch all of our progressions, and how quickly they have occurred in only five weeks. Only 35 days.. amazing how much life can change, can progress, in such a short amount of space. It leaves me thinking of the future, and how  much more we will gain, and grow, in the weeks to come.

Poop Time

Never in my life did I think that I would have so many conversations about poop and pee. "Did Rowan poop yet?" has been a common question in our household over the past 2 weeks. It started out with him going a day without doing it, dropping a load. I was worried, checked my books, called my mom, and was reassured, that it was normal. I guess breast fed babies can go a couple of days without pooping. So then next day came around, and finally it came, the massive one. Yay! He pooped finally! The next day comes and goes, and the next, and I start to worry again.

We did bicycle kicks, tummy massage, anything that wasn't invasive for the poor little man. I finally called his pediatrician's office, and they told me it was normal for breast fed infants to not go for anywhere from 4-7 days. 4-7 days. Are you kidding me? Enter life now. Yesterday was day seven, so we decided to give him a bath to see if that would get things moving. And did it ever. And throughout all of this, I am constantly amazed, amazed at how much life has changed in the past 31 days, how poop and pee are now normal conversations in our house, and how exciting dumping a big load can really be.