Addie's 1st week

A brief breakdown of 1st week events for Addalyn: After arriving home from the hospital on Sat. evening last weekend, we were able to just chill out as a family of 4 for a few days. It was nice to just snuggle with Addie and have both Mom and Dad around to be active with Kai (playing outside, wrestling, etc). Mon, Tues, and Wed we had doctors appts. for Addie to check bilirubin levels for jaundice. Poor baby had 4 heel sticks in a matter of 3 days.....painful looking, but she did very well with one big scream and calmed easy with a pacifier. She spent 2 days in her at-home "tanning bed" (bili-lights) before her bilirubin levels returned to normal. She's taken a few trips to the park with Kai, shopped at Walmart, and has now attended her 1st church service. She's eating well, pooping like a champ, and sleeping about 2-3 hours at a time (which is not long enough at night for my liking, but I'll take it). We have determined overall she looks like Daddy's baby pics, although has several of Mommy's features. Here's just a few recent shots:

Her little sweater outfit! It was the 1st non-sleeper outfit we tried on after the umbilical cord fell off. Thanks Madelaine. When Addalyn is awake she is extremely alert and calm. She will just lay and look around for a long time. The past few days she has stayed awake for ~2.5 hours after lunch just checking out the surroundings.

This is Daddy's newest tatoo of Addie's handprint with noticably long fingers. Kai has his baby footprint on the outside of the same leg.

Addalyn saying her prayers, silently.