One Week Old!!

The week just flew by!! Our little girl is already a week old!!

Everything is going pretty smoothly! She is still on the same schedule as she was in my tummy... sleep all day, play all night! But it's not that bad! She sleeps for a good 4 or 5 hours between feedings! I know they say it should only be 2 or 3 hours but when she eats she eats for an hour or so!

We had a check up on Tuesday and the doctor said she looked great and was putting on good weight! But she still has about 9 ounces to go until she is back to her birth weight so we have to go back to have her weighed on the 3rd!

My mom was here with us until yesterday! She was a huge support for me! She made sure Thomas and I did most everything ourselves but was constantly reassuring us and spent every second she could snuggled up with her grand baby!! It was hard to see her go but we made it through our first night completely alone at home and I know we are going to be ok!!

Lily got a bath yesterday and her umbilical cord has already fallen off!! It made me pretty nervous (I worry about every little thing) but again, my mom assured us that it looked great! I can't believe it's gone already though! I guess that is just a little glimpse at how fast she is going to grow up! Seeing her without that cord there makes her look so much older! But I am so thankful for her health and progress!!

The dogs are doing great with her! I was worried that they might think she was a squeaky toy or something... but they are surprisingly protective of her already! Rocco could almost care less about her until she cries but Mya wants to be around her all the time! I don't think the cats have even noticed that she's here!

This weekend we're going to have a house full again! Thomas' mom, brother and sister are coming up tomorrow and staying through Monday and two of Thomas' friends from high school might come up as well! So we're looking forward to Lily meeting her Aunt Kelly and Uncle Zach for the first time!!

Thomas is on leave until the 6th but it looks like they will be sending him to a course that Saturday! We're not sure of all of the details yet like where or how long it will be but I was pretty nervous when he told me about it! His squadron is going to be sending him off a lot here soon... he will probably be gone the whole month of October for training in Navada and for a week at the beginning of November for some other course in California!! But that just means there's an excuse for me to go back and visit Jacksonville and show off Lily to everyone there!!

I'm not sure if I'll come at the beginning of September while Thomas is gone or if I'll wait until we can both come down together but I promise as soon as we get settled in here and get this whole "parent" thing down, we'll have her there for everyone to see!!