First week comes to a close

Yep, they are right... its pretty tiring doing this parenting thing.

Sorry about disappearing for a few days. We checked out of the hospital and came home, and have been wondering what happened ever since.

Here are a few of the photos from when we were leaving the hospital room where we lived for three days...

To be fair though, it has been great to have some family in town to help out. Melody (Kelly's mom) was here throughout the week. She left on Friday. Heather, Kelly's sister, came out on Saturday. Both have cooked meals, done laundry, and helped changed diapers, etc.

One other thing seems to have made a pretty big difference in helping us to maintain the illusion of being at least a little in control. It is a multivolume DVD that Melody got for us called D'unstan (so far we only have volume 1 but it is awesome). A lady from Australia with a knack for hearing things has deciphered the language that newborn infants use (consisting at first of ~5 words). Each of these are distinct and now that we know them, Haley pretty much tells us exactly what she needs (in some cases, she needs to burp, in others, she needs a diaper change, and, of course, most of the time she is saying that she is hungry). Here is a link to the DVD on http://www.dunstanbaby.com/.

For our first night home, I ordered a birthday cake from Baskin Robbins. It was yummy!

And since we hadn't been able to spend much time with the dog, we took Haley and Chloe out for a walk her first day back too. (Chloe's blog can be found at http://dkross.blogspot.com/)

One of the key skills when one has a new baby is swaddling.

In order to perfect the art, Kelly practiced on the stuffed sheep. :)

Then... perfection. :-)

Until next time... Haley, who is sitting on my lap while I write, says bye bye.