Our friends Tracey and Katie came over for a visit earlier this week (and brought wonderful sustenance!) Katie also made Jude a beautiful banner in her summer sewing class. It’s proudly hanging in his bedroom/office/guest room. Thanks Katie!
Judes Banner!
Here is our little 12 day old, just seconds after screaming his head off. If it wasn’t for a recent feeding, we’d wonder what kind of shenanigans he’s been getting up to.
Food Coma
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Our good friend Lila came by last week to help us out with a little photo shoot while my parents were still in town. The pictures came out great! Thank you Auntie Lila!
Jude contemplates Auntie Lila
To see pictures from the whole shoot, click here to view the gallery on SmugMug.
From Auntie Carol and Uncle Hal…
Jude’s First Mail
This is our car after only 1 baby shower (there were 3 total)! We are blessed to have such amazing family and friends who’ve already contributed so much to our new family! Actually there were FOUR showers!
shower loot!
I’m getting better at this no sleep thing.
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Well, it’s been a whirlwind six days since Jude made his illustrious appearance. I cannot lie when I say he is the most beautiful, perfect baby I’ve ever seen. But everyone told me I’d say that. Jude had a little trouble getting started on nursing, but we persevered, with the screaming, oh the screaming. His Screaming Screaminess who Screams-A-Lot couldn’t quite figure out that he was hungry until he was STARVING and SO hungry that he couldn’t even focus to latch on. He’s gotten much better, I’m happy to say. After we met with the lactation consultant on Monday for our follow-up and nursing tips, she felt he looked a little jaundiced, so sent us over to pediatrics. Sure enough, he’s an 11 on the jaundice scale, whatever that means. We were sent home with instructions to give him a sun bath. He very much enjoyed it, and I think we will spend more time on our covered patio in the mornings and late afternoons. Brought him back on Wednesday for a follow-up and his levels were down to 10.5. I was all ready to be disappointed at such a slight decrease, but they were all, “That’s great! He doesn’t need any therapy or baby tanning beds. Keep up the good work and we’ll see you at his two week appointment.” With that hurdle over, we’ve just been hanging at home, working on getting the whole arms thing figured out. Whenever he’s unwrapped, he shakes his little arms in the air, fists aloft as if to say, “Oh the humanity of life! Don’t tread on me!” Quite the little revolutionary. Oh, how we love this little guy. Pictures coming soon, I promise!