Declan Edward Wanderski
October 31, 2011
4:04 PM - 7lbs 4 oz. - 21.5 inches long
Being newlyweds is no longer the purpose of this blog, much more important things have come along ! Jon and I, after what seems like eternity of waiting, welcomed our little bundle of halloween joy ! Now that he is almost 2 weeks ago, I finally have found the words and the time to write a post about our new life.
As many as you probably know - I whined, complained, cried, pouted, waddled, and swelled my way through this pregnancy. I insisted that being pregnant was something I would never in my life do again, and looked at people like they were nuts when they told me that I would forget about all the misery as soon as I had the baby. " Do these people even know me?" I thought to myself, I will remember every ache and pain and dry heave, there is no doubt in my mind, and then I will remind this child as he grows up, how miserable he made me. Well everyone was right. Its only been 11 days since he came into my life, and I cannot seem to remember a second without him. I vaguely remember rolling myself out of bed to pee for the 15th time just two weeks ago.
Declan must have known that I was not enjoying my pregnancy all too much, because he made labor and delivery a breeze. He arrived many hours before the Dr. said he would ( we were told 12-15 hours for an induction, plus 3 hours of pushing -- I did this in 6.5 hours of labor, and 1.5 hours of pushing -- he is already an over-acheiver ). He came barreling out with the worst cone head in the world -- in fact, the first words out of my mouth were " Oh no Jon, he has a cone head ! " -- thankfully that went away over night. They placed him on my stomach, and from there on out, my life would never be the same.
24 hours later we were already home with our little guy, starting our lives as a new family. Jon and I spent the first 2 days pretty much just staring at him, which I still find myself doing just about 10 times a day. He is pretty handsome I must say so myself :) We are certainly doing the new parent thing, worrying about everything ( I am convinced he feels too warm every day -- stare at the baby monitor a million times -- and too many other things to list ). With all this worry, comes the most incredible love for someone who I have only known for a short time.
Jon and I are so thankful for the love, support, and well wishes from all of our friends and family. We cannot describe the feelings and emotions we have right now, but they are definitely the best ones we will ever feel.
I promise to post too many pictures of him, along with too many statuses talking about him :)
Thanks again for everyone's love !
Jon, Linsey & Declan
