Whitaker's First Days at Home

We brought Whitaker home on Friday afternoon and our family feels complete. The biggest unknown with adding to the family was Mae's reaction. Despite us being in the "honeymoon" phase still, Mae has seemed pretty agreeable to having Baby Whit around and sharing Mom and Dad's attention. She "pets" him and tells us how "soft" he is. She also is willing to give him kisses and wants to see him in the morning and during the day. Grandma and Papa Kogut also came to town to meet their newest grandbaby. It was great to introduce them and look forward to the next week of having them around.

Welcome Whitaker Ian Cummings

On May 26th at 4:12 am, we welcomed with limitless love, pure joy, and total acceptance our son, Whitaker Ian Cummings. Again, I never knew that he was missing in my life until he entered it. Now, I can not imagine it without him.

Here are photos from the first 24 hours with Whitaker. I will share more labor and delivery stories in a few or so days.

Very Proud Papa

Family Photo (sans Mae)

In Love Already

Tired but beyond happy.

First Morning

Meeting of the Siblings

Grandma Cummings meets her newest grandbaby.

Content.

Mae mets her brother and is excited for Baby Whit.

Kiss.

Getting Ready for His First Bath

First Hair Washing

Overdue + 6

I don't really know what to say except I am 6 days overdue and no this isn't similar to library books overdue. This baby is already showing their Cummings stubborness (see how I don't say it is a trait of my side of the family) by officially overstaying their welcome. All things considering I still don't feel THAT bad. In fact, I went on a 2 mile walk and ran around the park with Mae today. The thing that is driving me the most crazy is my level of anxiety about it all. Every kick or mild contraction I think this is IT. Alas it isn't and I now look like this....

D Day = Due Date

Today marks my due date and still no baby. I had an appointment with Dr. Block today and still no dilation or effacement going on, meaning no movement to delivery. Although, she also admits that means nothing. As with Mae looks like I am going to have to start with square one and go from zero to 10 at once. The good doc doesn't think this baby business is going to happen for awhile, not meaning months but days. Instead of soley focusing on this, I am going to go out and enjoy the much needed beautiful weather we have been having in Seattle with my number one gal, Mae.

Mayfair 2011

I know this is the second post today but I wanted to get these pictures off the camera and up. This past weekend we went to Mayfair. Mayfair is a community event put on by the businesses and families of Madrona. (Yes, we technically live in the Central District by one block but I consider myself a small part of the community). Anywho, the event is free for families with a parade, pony rides, a bouncy house, face painting, a clown and games. We went last year and Pearson commented, "how great it will be when Mae can walk."

Anyway, we headed up at around 10 am and the event was already packed with families and kids. When I say packed, it was so crowded that if you didn't pay attention to your kid you could easily lose them. Pearson talked up the pony rides all morning so when got there we decided to wait in line for one. I will point out, I made Pearson take Mae close to the ponies to make sure that she was comfortable with the ponies prior to committing to waiting in line. (Mom's inituition kicked in and I feared that we would wait in line and she wouldn't want to get on the pony). We waited and waited and waited. Mae kept talking about the ponies and seemed genuiely excited about them. It was FINALLY our turn after 35 minutes. As I go to put Mae on the pony, she screams, "off, off, off." The pony then takes a couple of steps. I was thinking she would eventually warm up. Nope. Again, "off, off, off." Needless to say, there was no pony ride this year.

Thank goodness she enjoyed the bouncy house and the beautiful weather.

Waiting for the pony ride.