Power Outage

I will be the first to admit that be a first-time mom is NOT easy. They send you home with this little bundle of joy and expect that you somehow know what you are supposed to do with him.

If you are really lucky, he comes home jaundiced and you have to somehow convince him that he wants to lie on a bili-bed, glowing in purple light, surrounded by a rough sheet that closes with velcro, only to be held when it is feeding time. And, if you are really, really lucky, your neighborhood will get hit by a wicked storm that will knock out power for 24 hours when your little guy is just a week old and your husband is out of town. It is an adventure changing a diaper and feeding at 2am -- even more so when you are doing it by the light of a $4 battery-powered lantern and your house is a balmy 85 degrees inside.

Fortunately for me, my parents were in town and staying at our house during this whole escapade (they are my heroes)... and, as the saying goes, "this too shall pass"... Noah is over his jaundice and the evil bili-bed has been sent back to the abyss from which it came, the power is back on and I can once again see when Noah decides that pooping in his diaper is just not as much fun as pooping all over mommy. We can be thankful that our house did not sustain any damage unlike many of the other houses in Webster Groves. And Daddy is back from his volleyball adventures, which makes Mommy REALLY happy.

Noah is one week old!!

If only he always looked this peaceful!

Observations of a new mom...

1 baby creates more laundry than two grown adults.

Just like his dad

Josh tends to sleep with his arms up over his head... and Noah seems to be just like his dad. Noah is sleeping on his light bed here, which he doesn't like very much. Every once in a while he gets into a deep enough sleep that we can slip him on to it without his noticing!

We're home!

At long last, we returned home yesterday (8/19) and began to settle in to life outside of the hospital. This has been somewhat complicated by the fact that Noah has developed some jaundice and has to be on a light bed anytime he is not feeding. He is hanging in there and hopefully we can get rid of the light bed by the end of the week!

Here are a few more pictures from the last few days...

Noah and Daddy:


Noah's "going home" outfit (a little big, you think?):


Safely tucked into his car seat:

Sometimes Noah looks a little worried...

...like this.