As Promised

I crocheted this Mario rug thing for Kyle last Christmas. We finally decided to put it up on this wall, but it looked unbalanced so I made a 1up mushroom to go with it.

I Swore I Wouldn't

But here I am. Blogging about nothing but my baby since he was born. But I swear my next post is about something else. Here's what Felix looks like when he hangs out with Kyle.

We gave him his first real bath. And this picture basically sums it up...he hated it.

His feet are so ginormously long they are almost too big for the booties I made him.

And I think this picture looks the most like him, you know--super grumpy. He's really chill, but he always has a frown on his face.

And this is me blogging this post. Kyle decided it was a moment worth documenting...

Not So Bad

I thought I'd give a little update on myself...since Kyle and Felix are about the same. Well, Felix has a bunch more cuts on his face because we let him wear a t-shirt for half of today, which we won't do again until we can cut his nails. But as for me, I can't believe how good I feel. I seriously expected to be down and out for weeks and emotionally overwhelmed. But I'm not. I love this kid and I love taking care of him. I am really tired, but I'm managing. And my body is healing pretty fast. My stomach is slowly deflating and I'm still on pain meds, but I can walk down the street and back and bend over and pick stuff up (which I haven't done in months). So, anyway, just wanted to let everyone know that I'm feeling really goood.

Felix Ryan Murray

Our first family foto.

My water broke around 7am on Thursday and so after changing into more pajamas we headed off to the hospital. This is Kyle being casual for the last time, because now he is a very serious parent :)
So, just as I expected, labor was quite un-fun. I knew everyone who said it was great was a big liar! I'm sure my mind set had nothing to do with it...

Actually, at first I thought things were going to go swimmingly. The pain wasn't too bad, I didn't have to be induced, and then when the pain got bad and I got the epidural it wasn't that big of a deal. The IV was awful and hurt, but it didn't gross me out like I thought it would. And I loved the epidural. I got to sleep for a couple hours after getting it. And by 1pm I was fully dialated and effaced and ready to go!

But Felix's heart rate was dropping really low every time I pushed and the doctors didn't know what was going on. And I hadn't pushed him low enough that they could help out. So the doctor had me push for her after I hadn't been pushing for like an hour. And I could barely remember what I was doing so I did a pretty crappy job. So she decided I needed to be able to feel more to do a good job and had the epidural turned off. I was sobbing the second she said that. And then an hour later when it was worn off I was sobbing harder and louder. But apparentally I was pushing really good and got him down low enough that they could pull him out. So they turned the epidural back on and everyone suited up. Out came the forceps and about 7 pushes later, there he was.

8 lbs 1 oz and 19 inches long

It was so weird to see and feel him being pulled out of me and then just see this kid that used to be inside of me. The doctor wisely bossed Kyle around to start taking pictures instead of standing there giggling. Which was better than my laying there sobbing from the overwhelment.

I really couldn't and can't believe it's actually over.

He's been really great. He's pretty mellow and is doing a really good job trying to breast feed. We had to go buy lots more mitten shirts because he is scratching the heck out of himself.

Then we had lots of visitors. Thanks everyone who came to see us. It was really good to see everyone. We didn't get pictures of everyone who came, but here are some of them. Above is my mom and below is my dad.

Kass and Story (Jerome came too).

Kory, Amy and Axel.

You can see in the back of this one that we had a ton of people come Friday night. I think 15 people came to see us. This is Shelton and Legend and Kory, in the back is Amy, Jenny, and Wendy.

Kevin

Jeff, Cole, and Riley. Rain came earlier alone because she thoughts kids couldn't come, but after she found out they could Jeff brought them that night.

After that we went to sleep and took the wise counsel to use the nursery and slept for around 7 hours. It was pretty fantastic. But apparently wasn't enough for me to be able to stay awake earlier to finish this blog. I fell asleep with my hands on the keyboard while waiting for the pictures to load. And now I'm ready for another nap! And for the record--Kyle sent out a mass picture text to announce when he was born, but it didn't send to more than half of the people and so we're really sorry and if you were delayed in us telling you it's just because we didn't know the text didn't work!!!

My Turn

To toot my own horn, following Kassie and Justin's examples. I made this quilt for Felix and it's all finished. My neighbor has been holding a quilt class (and I haven't finished that one) but I used the skills to piece together this one. Then she taught me how to quilt it on my sewing machine so it didn't have to have ties on it. And then she taught me how to put silk on the edges to bind it so that if Felix is anything like me or Nick he'll be happy forever. I'm super proud of it. It's so cute. And the quilting made a cool design on the back like you can see in the last picture. The second picture is just a close up on the main pieced together design.