Grandma is coming tonight!

We are very excited around here to have Grandma coming tonight for a couple of weeks. My own parents are in Denmark until the end of May so none of the grandparents have met Mads in person yet. This is what we call "milk face" or "drunk face". It is what babies look like after they are done eating and they are very satisfied.

Isn't Bobs huge compared to Mads? He really likes to lie down next to his little brother but he has a hard time getting coordinated and positioning himself so as not to smoosh Mads in the process.

Bobs is also loving playing with all the little baby toys. Mads doesn't mind so far.

Rainy Days

It's been raining and snowing outside lately so we have been going to the malls. Bobs tried the carousel at Chinook but he was a bit scared about riding on the horsey. Here is Mads in a yellow jumper borrowed from Jansen. Ike from k-e-household has worn it too. I personally think it looks a bit 70's but the other moms love it. It does keep the baby warm.

This is a photo of Daddy when he was itty bitty. We compared it like this to Bobs. You can definitely seem some similarity. We have decided that Mads looks a bit like Bobs, a bit like Daddy and a bit like Mommy.

Uje and Sabu visit

Uje and Sabu visited last night. Bobs adores them. They brought him a little school bus and some marocca's. Mads got some clothes from baby Gap and we got some homemade food and brownies. Yum. They are both so good at holding newborns. They got a lot of practice with their niece and nephew twins that are very close to Mads' age.

Bobs has been good and bad with his baby brother. Yesterday he had 7 time outs in a row for hitting Mads. He doesn't hit hard, but we want to protect Mads of course. We figure this happens when he isn't getting enough attention.

Today we went to the mall and Bobs got to have a pretty normal day where he played in the mall's playpark.

Alikeness

K-e-Household wanted a side by side comparison of the boys. Here is one without their eyes open. I will try to do a few more as they come. Mads is above and Bobs is below. They are about the same number of days old.

Lately

Not much time to write the blog today, but we got some photos up. Jansen came over for his usual saturday playdate and we went to the park before it rained.

Thank goodness for Kristin's double stroller.

Kamryn came over yesterday to meet baby Mads.

Uncle Helge came over on thursday to see his new nephew. He held Bobs' hand all the way to the bus stop.

We also had a visit from Alyssa and Bobs tried to give her a kiss before she left.

Finally, daddy is all snug with his little boys before bedtime.

Flowers for Mom

Got flowers from Kristin, Carrie and Jamie's work. So beautiful, I wish I could preserve them forever!

One Week Old

Mads is now a week and 1 day old. A few days ago we got Bobs this truck for being a good big brother.

After we go for short walks in the sling, he is fast asleep and I can lay him down for a bit.

Bobs loves to lie down with Mads and kiss him over and over. The PJ's that Bobs is wearing comes from Kristin. It is his favourite pair and he loves to point and tell us what all the different kinds of balls are. He loves them so much that he threw two tantrums yesterday when we wanted to change him into his clothes. He did not want to remove them.

This little outfit is from Bobs' great aunt. He finally fits into it.

Ok that is it for now. Busy mom now!

Visiting the Dr. and Playing in the Park

This morning we went to the park and met some other kids. Some of them were curious and wanted to see Mads. Bobs got a bit possessive and made sure to sit right next to Mads and let the other kids know that he was his brother.

Bobs has been holding Mads' hand and pointing at his different features like his eyes and nose and mouth and head. When he pats Mads' head, he also has to come around and pat Mommy and Daddy's head.

We went to the Dr. today and Mads is now 7 lbs and 1 oz. He is past his birth weight on day 6. Yay!

I have been carrying Mads' in this sling from a friend who didn't like using it. Don't worry, it's not the recalled Infantino sling that some may have heard about in the media. It seems to fit alright. People are able to spot that there is a very tiny baby in there when I bring him outside. He sure gets a lot of attention. Jamie told me that after Mads was born, they had to bring him up from the main floor OR to the 6th floor Maternity Unit to get measured etc. I was in my own recovery area so it was just Jamie, Mads and a nurse in an elevator. Someone else from the public got on and they said "Oh, how old is the baby? A few hours?" and the nurse said " As a matter of fact, he is 8 minutes old" So Mads was already meeting new people at 8 minutes old.

I think Jamie is pretty tired being a full time buddy to Bobs. Our routine so far has been that I cluster feed Mads until 8:00pm and then I hand him over to daddy. Bobs goes to bed at 7:45. I got to sleep from 8:00 until 10:30 and then come back downstairs and feed Mads again while Daddy goes to bed. Usually I can't get Mads to sleep until 12:30am after a few diaper changes and burps. He gets loose from the swaddling I do. He loves to have his arms free but it prevents him from sleeping soundly as he can scare himself. I sleep from 12:30 until 3:30 and then we are up again until around 4:30. Then we sleep again from 4:30 until 7:15ish... by then, Bobs is up with Daddy and they are making noise upstairs.

So if you count all that, I am sleeping about 8 or 9 hours in different pieces. Not bad!

Day Five of Mads' life

Mads has been here for five days, and home for three. Things are going well and he gets nice little pats on his head from big brother Bobs. Once, Bobs also shhhhhhh'd Mads when he was crying.

We went to the park next to the house as it was a beautiful 20 degree day. Mads got lots of attention. I had him in a sling and people seemed to notice he was really little even when he was covered up by the fabric. Do some of you remember this outfit that Bobs wore nearly two years ago?

Tomorrow we have Mads' first wellness check up at the Dr.'s office. There is a starbucks next to it, so we plan on popping in there as well and if there is a park nearby and the weather is as nice as it was today, we may even head over there.

I think Bobs had a great day today. He got a new tonka truck from daddy and he has been playing well on his own, but at the same time we have been giving him a lot of attention. We hope for more wonderful days like this. I realize post partum time is a lot of ups and downs so I will just have to come back to this blog post to remind myself of a good day.

Mads and Bobs

Welcome to the new family blog, Mads and Bobs.

Mads is our son Mattias, born in April of 2010. Mattias is Swedish for Matthew, a name I have always loved. If I were to chose the Danish version of Matthew, it would be Mads. Jamie and I think that Mads is a good nickname. Mats is also a shorter version of Mattias, Mathias, etc...

Bobs is our son Erik, born in June of 2008. We started calling him Bobers/Babers/Bababers/Bobobers and Bobs a few months after birth. It is sort of hard to explain why. I think it goes back to when I was complaining about the rhubarb in our backyard of our new house. I don't like to cook with rhubarb and it seemed like such a burden to have it in the yard. Rhubarb in Danish sounds like Rababa. Funny words in both languages. I think I started calling Erik Rababa because it sounded funny and then it evolved to Bababers and so forth. It probably still doesn't make sense, but that is how Bobs came to be.

Blogging about our family started in November of 2008 with the World of E but since Mads has joined the family, I wanted to make a blog about the both of them for family and friends near and far.

Enjoy our family and thanks for visiting!