"You can’t imagine your life with kids, until you have them, then you can’t imagine your life without them."

Eveyln is home! That's the best news for today. :) The doc had to see her this morning, then she had to have her hearing checked, and then we were free! No more NICU! We got home at noon and have had a pretty relaxed day. Mark had an appointment for his varicose vein (he went in two weeks ago to have it taken care of). Today was a follow up to make sure everything was taken care of, he had to have a couple veins fixed but all should be better now. He's so excited to finally have it gone! So today has been a pretty great day for all of us! Now it's time for bed for me, Evelyn will be up soon and she'll be hungry!

(So happy to be in her own clothes and to be on her way home!)

(First time in a car seat!)

(First car ride!)

(She's such a smiley little thing! Soooo cute!)

(Chillin' at home in the Boppy)

(Sponge bath with Grammy! She didn't really like this, but she was also hungry.)

“Hospital rooms seem to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in.” --Bertha Damon--

Today was much the same as yesterday. I spent most of it going back and forth between the hospital so I could nurse Evelyn...super duper exciting stuff right there! The good thing is she's doing great and now has all IV's and tubes gone, yay! (that is, they were taken out after I took the below pics).

Here's a few pics of Evelyn being held by Grammy although you can't really see Grammy in the pics, she wasn't too happy about the ones I put up before on here and on Facebook...oops :) She's quite thrilled with Evelyn and thinks she's quite the character which she is! She's been awfully smiley and cute today and is so fun to watch! She makes the funniest faces. She seems to be a very curious little thing and loves to look around and loves to listen to people talk. She's adorable!

"Babies are always more trouble than you thought -- and more wonderful." --Charles Osgood--

Evelyn had a significantly better night and day today, now that she is getting regular feedings, she's much happier! :) She slept a LOT better today and even started nursing without any troubles! So that's how we spent most of our day, not much else to say except she's freaking adorable!



(she's so funny to watch fall asleep!)

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one. --Leo J. Burke--

So Evelyn had sort of a rough day, mainly due to the fact that she would not sleep! The nurses from the night crew said she was awake most of the night and then when I got there in the morning she was awake and very very cranky! This was partly also because she was huuunnnngggrry! She was acting like she was starving, poor little thing. She was fighting off sleep so hard though, which my mom said I used to do when I was a baby...I have a feeling we're in for some looong sleepless nights soon (which I expected anyway) so we're definitely taking advantage of these nights she's gone!

The good part of the day was that we spent a lot of time bonding "skin to skin" which she seemed to enjoy, I kept her calm most of the time I was holding her and got her to sleep a little at least. She was so overtired though that it was even harder to for her to fall asleep. Tonight I went with Mark though and she slept nearly the entire time I held her so hopefully she does a bit better tonight! Mark got to hold her again and spent awhile humming to her which she really enjoyed...it was SOOOOOO cute! She was making some funny faces at him too and even smiled at him once...sweet little thing. :)

(He almost got her to sleep here)

(Funny face...)

(Finally calm!)