Month One

We finally got home from the hospital and my Dad was there to meet us. Mom and Rob put our house back together (from our belated nesting, weekend before she was born). We still have a lot of work to do, but it is livable. We enjoy spending time together and watching Lily’s grandparents fawn over our darling girl. Who would have known that Pa Pa was the biggest baby hog!!

The first night Rob hears her spit up in her sleep and chokes on it a little. He springs out of bed to her rescue! Our hero! We did not get much sleep because we were nervous parents, not because Lily was crying. The doctors have me completely paranoid about feeding her enough, so I end up setting my alarm to go off every 3 hours during the night to feed her. Rob was increasingly less likely to get up with us and encouraged me to stop waking her up. By the end of the month, I have given up and let her wake me up when she is hungry.

We had several visitors over the next few weeks. Christine and Mike come up and visit, Mike is fascinated by how cute her cry is, so he keeps making her mad just to hear it. Tara and her mom also come up to see our little Lily. They love holding her and snuggling her.

A special shout out to Jenna. She came up and helped us out for a week. She cooked for us, and also gave us several frozen dinners that we could have when she is gone. They were mostly made of noodles and cheese in various different forms; it’s almost like she knows what I like to eat! She also helped by doing dishes and entertaining Lily so that Rob could finish the dog room, and Ali could use the restroom and shower. We are so blessed to have such a wonderful group of family and friends to help us out!

At 2 weeks old it is time to celebrate Thanksgiving. We make our yearly trip to a cabin in Estes Park. We have a great time seeing family and showing Lily off to those that haven’t met her yet.

The night after Thanksgiving Lily gets mucousy and is having a hard time breathing. I feed her and it gets a little better. I was terrified that she would have trouble breathing in the middle of the night and I wouldn’t know about it, so I want her in the bed with us, but Rob refuses to have her sleep in the bed. He didn’t want to start any bad habits. So we took turns staying up and holding her. He finally gave in around 3am when his next “shift” was supposed to start. We wake up the next morning and Lily seems to be fine now, however almost everyone else is sick as a dog. We decided that for Lily’s sake we were going to leave early.

Lily seems to have made it without getting super sick. She has had a bit of a stuffy nose ever since. She goes back and forth on her feelings about snot sucking, but seems to becoming a little less opposed.

Big developments in Lily this month: she is starting to focus more on people and things. It is absolutely awesome to have her look right at you!! She is really good at holding her head up, so strong already! She has lots of smiles, everyone says they are just from gas, but Mommy knows that she is just really happy!

Skeptical Lily is quite skeptical!