One Week

How can one week drag on and fly by at the same time?  Seth and I were awake this morning around the 7:20am hour and I reminded him that she was being born exactly a week ago today.  How crazy!  I'm so proud of us for making it through our first week as a family of four.

Monday we left the hospital and got home around lunch time.  Our families had cleaned our house, stocked our fridge and left flowers and wine for our arrival home.  They have been so helpful!

The rest of the week was filled with doctor's appointments and trying to figure everything out.  We went to the pediatrician twice, Seth went back to the ENT and we visited the lactation consultants at the hospital.  I was so thankful that Seth was able to take the week off of work to be with us.  Even though we had a lot of extra hands, it was nice to have him here.  He has done such a wonderful job of keeping the house clean, the dog exercised and entertaining visitors.  He also had Andrew help him finish re-plumbling the basement yesterday (because that's what normal 1st-time dad's do during their first week with a newborn :))!

This morning we took Jane to Colfax to have her newborn pictures taken by Christina Evans.  I won a free session a couple of months ago and we could not be more lucky.  Christina was incredible!  Jane was precious!  I cannot wait to see the finished product.  The story behind the contest is a good one as well.  Christina had been gifted a set of new lights for her studio from a man whose wife passed away and she decided to "pass it on" by offering a free newborn session.  Now Seth and I need to find a way to pass it on ourselves.

Visitors this week:
At the hospital:
Our families
Steve and Ben
Justin
Drew and Danielle
Anna and Terry
Amanda, Addie and Eva
Emily
Joe and Susan
Mama Lou
Amy Zwiebel's mom
Dr. Pollard
Nell
Kate and Ryan
Josh and Kelsey

At home:
Kate
Serah, Mat and Nathan
Emily, Joe and George
Jeep and Aurelia