Our first 3 days home together

Yesterday Gabe and I took Ellis Jane on her first walk around the block.  It was a beautiful day, so we seized it.  I LOVE this first photo.  It shows Ellis' beautiful face, and also her giant clothes. For some reason a lot of preemie and baby clothes are made more similar to adult proportions, which means Ellis' arms don't even come close to the ends of her sleeves.  I also chose an adorable little hat for her, thinking it was the right size.  It wasn't even close, so we folded it up and hit the road.  These first two pictures are of Ellis snoogled up in her stroller, entirely overdressed for the weather by her always-cold mama.

Here are a couple of Gabe and Ellis.  Once a day we have to put 1 mL of vitamins with extra iron (the doctors weren't convinced that Ellis' fair skin was thanks to her pale folks, hence the extra iron).  It's pretty raunchy stuff and it makes her puke (yes, puke. Not "spit"--that's too light of a term) probably 4 out of 5 times. Because of this tendency, we decided to strip her down therefore getting a rare glimpse of her little arm which is typically covered in efforts to stay warm and not burn unnecessary calories. Run on.

How many men does it take to change a diaper...

Gabe's good friend Dr. Nate flew out to be our butler for a few days.  So far he's gotten the oil in our car changed, done some painting, gone grocery shopping, cooked our meals and now assisted in a diaper change.  It's been quite a luxury to be cooked for, let me tell you.

Here is another from our walk around the block:

Now, I've mentioned to many of you what a spectacular milk-producer I am, but I suspect you haven't grasped exactly the extent of it. There is no food in our freezer, other than Ellis'. There is also more at the hospital, which we refused to bring home because there is simply nowhere to put it. Kind of ironic that our baby only weighs a little over 4 lbs, huh?

Poor Daly.  He has really taken a back seat these days.   

Drum roll, please...First bath at home! Plus the first picture of Ellis' back cheeks.

I actually really like how this picture captures the fact that life is SO not about me anymore (not that it ever was, but one can sure be deluded enough to think so). And yes, that's my bra.  Nice. 

Babies have lots of nooks and crannies. In this picture I'm getting one of the crannies clean.

Pay no attention to the mess surrounding us, clearly I haven't.

So there's a little expose (pronounced x-po-zay)on life in our household over the last three days.  More to come soon I'm sure.