Luke, I Am Your Father

The Dude makes 4!  Lukas Matthew Maio was evicted from his small but cozy residence at 10:39 a.m. on November 3.  He weighed in at 7lbs 12 oz and is 20.5 inches.  The smallest Martin or Maio baby that has been seen in generations, we are already head over heels for this little man and can't wait for you to meet him (after you show proof of a flu shot and walk through a Purell bath.  What's the fastest way to make an infant's mom more nuts than she already is?  Have a pediatrician say flu and pertussis are on their way around already).

I call this one "Newborn in Repose with Father's Profile"

Anyway we dropped G off at school on Thursday morning and it was *so* weird to just drive on down to the hospital after that, like we were running an errand.  La la la, pick up dry cleaning, stop at hardware store, go have baby, get gallon of milk...  Yet there we were.  Everything for the actual procedure went swimmingly and I'm once again the proud owner of a track-o-staples along my abdomen.  It did not give me warm fuzzies when it took four separate tries to get an IV line and 10, count 'em TEN spinal pokes to even out the anesthesia.  Five days later I feel a little like I've been kicked in the back by a horse but even so I was easily off any meds by Monday - a definite improvement from the hematoma and sheer exhaustion of G's delivery. 

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuper cute

Facebooking.  What else is there to do while trying to pass time waiting to have a baby?

Back in the suit!

Looks a little like a convict with the striped shirt underneath

Hello, little man!  We're so glad you're here

In recovery, about an hour old and already looking for food.

Glad to be out of surgery

Smooches 1 of about a million

One of his already classic Old Man faces.  Gets me every time!

Knowing what a huge upheaval this little addition would be to G's world, we chose to have no visitors on Thursday and just spend time as a family after her day at school.  She was super excited for the baby for about 30 seconds and then she realized that (a) he doesn't do much and (b) my work had sent an Edible Arrangement which was a lot more interesting.  The best part was when she held him...she looked down, said "awwwwwwwwwww!", patted his head, and turned to us and deadpanned to us, "Take him."  Sure thing kiddo.

Checking out the new addition

Happy!

Awwwwwwww.  Two seconds later she was done.

Baby's first deep thought

The parade-o-visitors began on Friday with - who else? - the two Grandmas.  One other benefit to a scheduled c is having back up on the calendar, and knowing where G was going to be and who was going to pick her up, drop her off, etc.  This included more visits to the hospital where she continued to indulge in the food and "big sister" stickers.

And it begins

Already finding things to stick in his mouth

Yeah whatever, big sister, blah blah blah.  There are COOKIES here!

Cookie done and once again a proud sister

First family of four photo

Our kiddos

Matt prepping Lukas on the Brewers run to the NLCS

I was ready to bop out of there on Saturday but they wouldn't let us go in under 48 hours so Sunday it was.  We managed to get home by lunchtime and father and son were able to sit back for their first Packer game. 

Nothing better than a newborn snoozing on you, am I right?

Chillaxing

We are so over the moon in love with little Lukas.  His little old man faces are really funny and Matt and I are trying to breathe in every second of having such a tiny baby in the house, crazy nighttime schedule and all.  One thing we keep remarking is how freakin' BIG Genevieve seems compared to Lukas.  Her hands are like catcher's mitts.  Not to mention how much he's changed in the five days he's been around.  Just more reminders of how much changes and how quickly, and more motivation to try to soak it all in.  So glad to have the four of us home!