First weeks with Baby

I would be lying if I said Briggs had a name right away. He didn't officially have a name until he was about 4 weeks old :l! Everytime I would try to talk to Mark about names the topic would just get switched to something else. (I mean, i'm not trying to point fingers or anything, buttttt he kinda made it hard to talk names before the baby was born.) And we both just never found a name that we just absolutely loved. So it ended up being a huge stress to me after he was born, and if we have more kids...I will insist on having the name chosen before it's born. So we finally named him, and it took me a really long time to feel like it wasn't a mistake. It had to grow on me.

Here he is a week old.

Here he is hanging out while the kids played a game. One of the hardest things for me when I bring a new baby home, is feeling like I am neglecting my other kids and so I am always trying to find ways to still be interactive with them.

Mark was also SO good about playing and helping with the big kids when he could. Here they are riding behind the mower. Diesel eventually fell asleep and rode in the wagon for a good hour.

We were still taking care of our little garden after he was born which was kinda tricky, but he was by far the cutest thing I grew.

My sister is amazing and has done this twice for us now. She grocery shops, meal preps, organizes and brings meals and food over that could easily last 2 weeks. She is an angel. The meals are SO delicious and it is such a HUGE stress off of me. As you can tell the fridge was LOADED>

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