Katie Pictures!

Enjoying a good stretch and recline. One day old.


Tubes galore. It was so exciting to watch them disappear one by one.


Pretty little manicured nails. Lori, you'd love to paint them:)

Still relaxing, tiny little feet crossed.


No more breathing tube!


Yep, that's the father of my children!


First family picture. Shad and Tommy left me hours after that to go home. Katie is 6 days old.


No more IV!!


Happy Halloween!


We love cuddle time!


Bright eyed and enjoying her pacifier. Only her nasal gastric tube remaining (for feeding purposes).


No more NG tube!! Why? Because Katie pulled it out herself. Yep, found the one place that it wasn't taped down, hooked her finger through and pulled the full 8 inches out of her nose. Her nurse decided that at that point, she wouldn't put it back in.


I went to the bathroom and Katie was asleep. When I came out, this is what I saw. Just chillin, sucking on her fingers and playing with her ear.


Note the finger. Katie often slept like this at the hospital. I think it's her way of telling the hospital staff what she thinks of them.


I just really like this one:)


So happy! Cuddling with a comfy little girl and my husband just arrived to take us home the following morning.


Comfy car ride home? I think it looks pretty awkward, but she didn't complain.


Katie held my hand while I supported her head for her.


Don't be deceived by the face--Tom loves his baby!

Catching Up On Pictures

Okay, here's catching up on pictures.

Tommy loved patting my belly and saying "baby" before Katie was born. After she was born, he noticed the shrunken belly and the baby on the outside and he seemed to understand what had happened.


Thursday before Katie was born, we walked to meet and visit two of Shad's coworkers. Tommy had fun playing with Jeff and talking with him, but he LOVED meeting Roy. Roy is a guy who is goofy all over the place when he's not playing with a kid, but even more so when he is. Roy gave Tommy his first donut--a mini powdered donut. Tommy took a small bite to taste it, then his face lit up and he shoved the whole thing in. We were all impressed at the capacity that boy's mouth has!


The Saturday before Katie was born, we were at church for a Trunk or Treat, dinner and game night. I messed up the pillowcase that was to be Tommy's ghost costume, but Shad fixed it by drawing a sword and shield on it, and calling Tommy a knight. Then he called the stuffed alligator a "wingless dragon" and gave Tom a plastic bat in place of a sword. Tommy instinctively took to slaying the dragon...or just whacking it real good with the bat:)


While I spent time with Katie in the hospital, Shad took Tommy on outtings to the park. On one of the outtings, they played Pirates. They came back and there were these pen marks on Tom's face above his lips. Shad's explanation was that Tommy needed a mustache, but wouldn't hold still for it. Hahahahahaha! Oh, I laughed for days. But before they played Pirates, they spent time swinging. If happiness could be expressed in a single picture, it would look like this:



All ready for trick-or-treating--Levi as a black knight, Ruth as a princess, and Tommy as a white knight.


The little white knight enjoying his Halloween.


While we were staying at the Ronald McDonald House, Tommy had trouble sleeping by himself. So we took turns cuddling with him til he fell asleep.



And who doesn't love a good sleeping-with-his-butt-up-in-the-air picture?