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Monday, our third day at the hospital I was anxious to get home. We had to wait till my doctor came in the evening to clear me for leaving. Once we had the go ahead we packed up fast and got out of there. It is so hard to really rest in the hospital with nurses and other people barging in all the time.
By the way Hallie wore the same outfit when we brought her home.
Our second day in the hospital we were able to have Hallie with us most of the day. She stayed busy coloring in the morning and watching some shows. Then my family came to visit and was quite the entertainer as usual. “Cuncle” Phillip wore her out playing and she fell asleep on my bed even while everyone was there.
These are grapes in Hallie’s mouth. The grapes make her face look square like the old man in UP.
After we were in our room for a bit and had some time to rest Hallie came to meet her new brother.
Hallie has been doing good with Lincoln. She has had lots of attention though. The first week home with Lincoln she got to go out with Nana everywhere and she really liked that. This week Berret has been on paternity leave so Hallie has had lots of good bapa time and went on special outings with him. I guess we’ll see later how she handles having a new brother when she is stuck more with me and has to share the attention. Right now she is so sweet to him. Hallie gets really excited whenever we offer to let her hold him. When Lincoln cries Hallie tries to comfort him by giving him toys, blankets, and kisses. She is always saying how cute he is and loves when he is awake. I just hope it continues.
Lincoln. 6 lbs 4 oz. 19 1/2 inches. 9/10/11 at 12:16 PM. Perfect.
Doesn’t he have a cool birthday, it will make it easy to remember. Anyways, we are just loving our new little man. We have been busy adjusting and recovering but we are all doing well. I can’t believe it has taken me so long to make a post about his arrival. I think I will be making lots of posts in the next few days because there is lots to catch up on.
Lincoln was delivered through a scheduled c-section. The surgery was scheduled to start at noon and Berret and I were supposed to be at the hospital at 10 AM. We were a bit late to the hospital but there was still tons of time waiting around. Preparation for the surgery seems like such a slow process but part of that might be how anxious we felt. Once in the O.R. though things seem to go really fast.
Then I was taken to a recovery room and Lincoln was taken to the nursery. They wanted to watch him for awhile while he coughed out some of the fluid in his lungs. For about about 45 minutes or so Berret went back and forth between Lincoln and me. Lincoln was brought to me before leaving the recovery room and he started eating right away. He eats like a champ which is so nice. When Hallie was born we struggled for weeks with nursing. We had to hang out in the small recovery room for quite awhile because all of the rooms were full. The rooms were pretty nice though and big.
Lincoln has his 2 week check up tomorrow so we’ll get to see how much he weighs and such.
Check back soon because I’ll be catching things up here.
The sidewalk chalk we got was a 3-D set with glasses. It was really cool to look at the drawings with the glasses. This is the set we got, I only paid a $1.50 though at Winco. It is softer and leaves deeper colors but this makes it much messier. With how messy the chalk was it was nice that Hals wasn’t wearing much, she just took a shower afterwards.
In the left picture Hallie noticed a jet and the “clouds” it was making.
Here Berret is finishing up a drawing of Gossie and Gertie from one of Hallie’s favorite books, Gossie.
This is the outfit Hallie wanted to wear for working in the yard, a tutu and rubber boots.
Hallie is so lucky to have a fun yard to run around and play in plus cool things like this horse swing. Papa Wes put this up shortly after we moved in.
Hallie is one amazing kid. She was a champ through the whole moving process. We decided to have something special for her when we arrived in Washington. Her new Kazam bike was waiting for her when we got in. When we took her to ride it for the first time she kept saying “good girl. my bike.” over and over.
She certainly isn’t able to ride it like the kids in this video but she does have fun walking around with it. I think next summer she’ll be old enough to use it a little better.
