Rip Van Winkle

Today I drove for the first time in four months. It was a long over due event and I was excited to have this freedom back. However, for the last couple of weeks that I've finally been off the bed rest I must say that I am beginning to understand how Rip Van Winkle must have felt after waking up from his long nap. There are no huge changes, but everything seems to be slightly different. The parking is different on campus, there are new stores open, snow is on the ground again, etc. I'm going to have to get used to this.

Lilly at a week

Lilly is now 1 week old. We've enjoyed having her home and beginning life with the newest member of our family. On Saturday we took her into her doctor's to have her weight gain checked and she is growing well. He noticed that she was looking a little on the yellow side so we went and had her tested for jaundice again. Her test was on the higher side but not enough to put her under lights.

Last night Lilly's sweet siblings gathered around her to oh and ah over the baby. They looked almost worshipful as they tried to get the best spots to see and hold her little hand and feet. They all adore this new little sister. Even Katie has learned to share the spotlight and is getting used to there being 2 princesses in the family now.

My recovery has been going well, especially since Lilly had some longer sleeping hours last night between feedings. I've had little pain and have to keep reminding myself not to do certain things so it stays that way. I'm really enjoying not being on bed rest anymore. I might not be able to do everything I want because of the c-sect recovery and needing to stay home to protect baby from germs, but I'm on the road to doing what I did before and that is enough for now.

The best part has been watching Jon with Lilly. He's been so supportive and wonderful through all the months of bed rest and this last week of long nights. I love watching him hold his little girl in the early morning hours and take such gentle care of her. He's a proud papa.

Kindergarten Sweater

My mother-in-law knits the most wonderful things. One thing she has done is made each of the kids a Kindergarten sweater. This one is Sam's and he was so excited to have his own "grammy sweater" to wear as he's been super jealous of his brother's for the last year. Thank you grammy!

She's finally here!!

After months of waiting she finally decided she was ready. We are so happy to hold her. She is such a good baby too, hardly fussing, sleeps through everything (even being passed around to her siblings).

Note

My funny little girl decided she wanted to dictate a note to me for her friend. It is very random and is as follows:

To: M
From: K

We love earth and Jesus Christ and we love pumpkins and trick or treat and Merry Christmas and God loves us and carve pumpkins and we need water and we need waters for plants and we stapled books and we grow plants and we love colorings. Don't hit your brothers. We'll buy you some money. We love Christmas and super crayons (twist crayons) that are on my bus and twist rags (you have to twist it and then wipe it all off) and penny twist- where we have to twist a coin and then twist it again and again and again for what number it is.