Sunday 8/9/09

Just a couple of pictures from today; Henry is still doing terrific. Bilirubin is going back down, weight is coming back up. He's eating about every 3 hours, but you sure forget just how time consuming a little baby can be! Even changing a diaper takes forever...and then he pees all over everthing or poops again just as soon as you've finished!
This is my absolute favorite way to hold my babes! I could stay like this all day!

There is nothing sweeter than a peacefully sleeping babe.

My sleeping men!

First day at home...

After a better...although still sleepless night at home, here are few pics of Henry's first day at home. He is eating like a champ...a bit TOO good, I would say. He doesn't want to stop! So to give myself a break, we tried a passy...and it worked wonders! We do love passy's in this house. Anyway, he has been resting much better now so I'm able to get some pictures up.

Lily is much more interested in Henry today. She was very excited to hold him.

She had to make sure all his body parts were there...we found his eyes, nose, ears, hands....and feet! Yep! All 5 toes are there!

You can see he's getting a little jaundice...we went to the Pediatrician this morning, but haven't heard back what his bilirubin was yet. We'll go back one more time on Saturday to make sure he's doing OK. But with the way he's eating, I'm sure he'll be fine. He weighed 7lbs, 14oz this AM and othewise checked out PERFECT! :)

Heading home...

Hmmm....How many things can go wrong while in the hospital? Since my mom has been here, our TV died, mom had a fender-bender, our power went out for a couple of hours, we had an ant infestation in the kitchen...seriously!! My poor mom! She's never going to want to come back!

Anyway, here's just a picture I took while hanging out with my man.

Andrew and his son.

So once we found out the power was back on at home, we packed it up and headed out! Hospitals are no fun, and the night nurse wasn't extremely helpful anyway, so we figured it would be better at home. We got home around 9:30pm.

Homeward bound!

At the hospital...

Day 1, Lily gets to come up for a quick visit and meet Henry for the first time before bed. She wasn't too sure what to think and was more worried about my "owies" than the baby. Too many distractions at a hospital!

Meme got to spend some time with Henry the next morning before heading back to Brunswick. She came up the night before for the birth but he came so late, no one really got a chance to see him much.

Grandma brought Lily and Allie (who is also staying with us this week) up to the hospital later the next morning too.

And for the record, this is how my husband spent much of the first day of his son's life...he had cases all day 1 floor down from us, so he was back and forth, on the phone, busy busy busy. But someone's gotta pay for the baby, right? :)

Henry!!

Tuesday, August 4th, 12:30pm. After waiting all morning to go in for my induction (and thinking I was going to deliver over the weekend....but nothing!!), we finally got the green light to come in! So off we go to have a baby!!

Water broken by 2pm, Epidural in by 3. Playing Sudoku on Andrew's iPhone: Life is good.

Henry's grand entrance at 7:21pm. 8lbs 7oz, 21 inches.

And then we were 4!

Ahhh-Chooooo!

I LOVE this video! Lily learned how to "sneeze", which I think is absolutely adorable. This is a common scene in our house these days too: playing at her awesome kitchen from Meme and Poppa, in her little apron and my heels.