One Week Home

Well, this is our one-week-home-anniversary with AJ. It's been a great week! It's more like we have a one-week old baby at home than a one month old baby though. True, he's more alert than a newborn, but in many other ways, he feels just like a brand new baby.

E LOVE, LOVE, LOVES her brother. She loves to read to him, pat him, touch his eyes, ears, nose, and mouth, hold his hand and show him all her toys...and when he's nursing, she likes to sandwich him between her and me (Andy does this to E when we're having big family monster cuddles and E loves it, so I'm sure she thinks AJ will love it too. He doesn't seem to mind it as long as he can keep eating). I'm still mildly annoyed by the O2 tank tether...but it's WAY better than driving to the hospital everyday!

Really, our one-week-home anniversary is marked by a remarkable lack of exciting news. We've just been spending time together as a family and becoming cohesive. The most eventful part of our week has been getting our flu shots (my arm is STILL sore) and my lack of sleep (AJ likes to cluster feed between midnight and 4AM).

Next week, should prove to be a little more challenging. We have a birthday party (cousin Colten is 1-yr old!), a doctors appointment (maybe followed by a home pulse-ox test???), a baseball game, a wedding (congratulations to Uncle Mark!), and a family BBQ (we can't wait to meet Grandma White). Oh yeah, and Andy goes back to work...I'm not sure how/if we're going to make it all happen...I guess we'll just take it one day at a time. A few more pictures of our week in September's Photo Album.