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“Which foot does this shoe go on?” I asked him.
“This one here, the right one.”
“Well actually, this foot over here is your right one, that’s your left one.”
“Oh, this is my weft one.”
“Left, LLLLLL, Left. Try saying it again.”
“Weft”
“No, no. Left, LLL sound.”
“Oh, I know like WuWuWuWu Wion.”
We are finally home from the hospital and I would love to report that it has all been very smooth and wonderful but unfortunately it’s been anything but. A couple of minutes after being home Andrew threw up in the front room and since then the stomach virus has been making its round through the family. So far Jen has had it the worst which landed us back in hospital last night for a couple hours while they loaded her up on IV fluids and anti-nausea medication. I’ve manged to keep everything down but my stomach has been churning and by a small miracle Caroline and Alex have not yet showed any signs of being sick. I’m crossing my fingers and hoping it stays that way.
I took this picture of Caroline just before we left the hospital. This is the manditory “babies first picture in a car seat” photo. We have a similar pictures of both Alex and Andrew so why break with tradition. (I couldn’t find Alex’s but Andrew’s is on this page.)
We’re wrapping up day four at the hospital and we are both really ready to head home. Sleeping last night went from being just a little bit of a nuisance to an all out painful exercise. I woke up a couple of times during the night in pain, it was actually being in pain that woke me up. I must have been sleeping in a different position or something but it felt like this fold up chair was trying to swallow me.
Our routine hasn’t changed much in the last couple of days. Feedings every couple of hours during the night, Jen orders breakfast in the morning when she wakes up which I usually skip, more feedings, and couple of doctor visits thrown in for good measure. Around lunch I’ll head out to find something near by, more feedings, and then the coveted nap during serenity time from 2:00 to 4:00. As excited as I am about getting to leave here I’m really going to miss getting that afternoon nap. In the evening I usually head out to find dinner and then we spend the evening watching TV before one last feeding and thenback to sleep.
There isn’t much to do while hanging out at the hospital so we spend a good amount of time watching TV/channel surfing. I’ve come to the conclusion that daytime TV is absolutely the worst, there isn’t anything decent on worth watching. But the most difficult part of watching TV is actually hearing it since that there is only one small speaker in the nurse call button/light switch/integrated TV remote thingy.
Last night wasn’t bad either. We only had two feeding sessions during the night and we managed to get some sleep. When I woke up this morning I actually felt pretty good and thought, “hey, this isn’t too bad. I can handle this.” when I realized it was just after 8:30 in the morning. Once we leave the hospital I’m going to have to have to the boys off to school and be at work before 8:30 so things are going to change.
The pictures from the ER were taken by the Larry the anesthesiologist. The nurse let us know before hand that Larry liked to commandeer the camera and take pictures so I would have to worry about. Thankfully he was able to keep with his anesthesiologist duties and take pictures at the same time. The first time Larry came in to work on Jen he looked at her and said, “your a swimmer”. After 15 years of working on peoples backs he’s apparently acquired the skill of back type interpretation.
The whole procedure seemed to take a lot longer then I remember it taking with Andrew. Once they had Caroline out they took her over to the baby table, cleaned her up, examined her, then they let us hang out for a while with Jen before we went off to the nursery.
Later in the day Pat brought Alex and Andrew up to the hospital to see their new sister and I think they were both very excited. Andrew was intrigued by the fact that she was now out of Jen’s tummy and he was very excited that she would now be able to go running again. Now we just have to convince him it’s going to be a while before that can happen.
“That’s God’s house.” pause, pause, pause, “It has lots of chairs in it.”
“Fruit Loops, Fruitie Loops, I’m eating Fruitie Loops.”
Alex was having some problems pouring the cereal so I helped him finish it out, get them both some Orange Juice, and get it to the table. I went back to the fridge, got the milk out and came back to the table to find out who wanted milk in their cereal. (More often then not Alex doesn’t take milk in his cereal and Andrew has started picking up the habit.) Andrew took one bit of his Fruit Loops and yelled and made a big production out of,
“I didn’t want this, I wanted Life cereal.”
Andrew came in the other day all dressed up and announced,
“I’m Bob Zimmer and I’m here to work!”
Apparently he has some alter ego we don’t know about.