Nothing Important Update

We're coming to a close of the first week of my being home as a mother of two. I was blessed with help and have had a pretty easy week, when all is said and done. Dinners were provided by some lovely ladies in the ward. My sister-in-law stayed with us to help me as I recovered from the c-section (namely to help when Cadence became too much of a handful). And other family dropped by for frequent visits and to help out. Oddly enough, my apartment has been cleaner over the past week than it has been for awhile (a lot of that might have to do with no kitchen messes to have to clean up, lol).

Things are going smoothly, thus far. Cadence is handling the changes fairly well. She's been a bit fussier than usual lately, which can be a hassle when my lap is full feeding Megan (if Megan is sleeping, which is most of the time, I'll willingly lay her down to give my full attention to Cadence). But, I'm slowly mastering holding both of them at once if it's needed. Cadence gets so excited every time she realizes I'm holding Megan too. Sometimes, a little too excited. But, if you put Megan's head close to her and ask her to give Megan a kiss, she'll willingly lean forward and give Megan as many kisses as she can before you move Megan away. Actually, it looks more like she's taking bites out of Megan's head, but she means it to be a kiss, so it's too sweet.

Cadence is on the downside of a growth spurt, so she's a bit fussy and extra tired recently. But, we're hoping she's back to her chipper self by the end of the week. She had a bit of a hard time with bedtime the first few nights I was home, but seems to have done better in recent nights (being sleepy from the growth spurt might be why...). Unfortunately, she either is teething again or will be shortly. However, we're stocked up on baby Orajel and some children's Motrin, so we're prepared.... I hope.

Megan has finally gotten the morphine and codeine and knock-out juice that they gave me in the hospital out of her system and has been waking up more. She's still sleeping a ton, but she's spending more and more time alert as each day goes by. She was a bit jaundiced her first few days home, but in waking up more she's also eating more and has gotten past the worst of it thanks to lots of nursing. One battle we are losing is the dry skin battle, so lots of lotion. And, we're scouring every place we can think of for a dress small enough to fit her until she grows into newborn sized clothing (had to go buy a think of preemie onesies and sleeping gowns to get us through this first month or so).

So, yes, nothing important. We're surviving. Hopefully we'll have plenty of pictures and stories in the near future.