One Month!

Laughing at Big Sis

Can I hit her mom?

What are you looking at?

My sweet Girls!

Halloween anyone?

Well it is official; Lily is one month old or four weeks. We got the results of her final urine test Monday night after dinner. She is normal, another false PKU for my girls. We should have known with her ability to eat and grow. We went today for our one month checkup and here are her stats. She weighs 7 pounds 13 ounces up from 5 pounds 9 ounces leaving the hospital. She is 20 1/4 inches long up from 19 1/2 at birth. The doctor was impressed with how alert she was, turning her head, not crying at being poked. Lily grabbed the stethoscope and hung on to it. So for the next month we look forward to more eating, sleeping and pooping. She is supposed to spend several minutes doing her exercise - tummy time to build up her neck and chest muscles. Hopefully the spitting up will subside soon, as well as the general gassiness. Next visit she starts in with the shots. Grace is very worried about these in that she remembers hers from the four year old visit. Luckily Lily won't remember them, yet.
We are looking ahead a couple of weeks to Halloween and then Mommy's return to work. It should all go smoothly. Pray that Grandma Suzanne's heart quits giving her fits with the abnormal heart rates and dizzy spells. That way she can spend about 10 hours a week with Lily Pie bonding before Christmas.
Anyway we are glad to have survived the month on little sleep and lots of good friends. I need to recognize all that have helped us. First to Grandma Suzanne and Grandma Terry for late nights and help around the house and with Grace, I say God bless you. To the Hughes, Lara thanks for calming me on that day when the water broke and thanks for helping me pack, thanks also for being a mommy to Grace when I couldn't be there. Grace loves you and Tom and I do too. To the boys, Joshua and Caleb, thanks for adopting Grace into the kiddos carpool, she loves riding with you guys. Props to the ladies of the street for all the wonderful meals that you provided. Thanks to all the friends and family who have prayed for us, sent gifts and called in to check on us. We know that without all these people supporting us, we would be nowhere. Thanks again.