Daddy's Day and Tanning Beds

I can't believe Adelia is already 9 days old. It has kind of been a blur, but it's been very happy. We love our little baby so much!!! She is so good too! She only cries when being really messed with or when she's really ready to eat........OR............. when she's being placed under the Biliruben lights.

Her levels were a little high in the hospital but not enough to keep us there. By Tuesday they were higher and on Wednesday even higher. By Friday they were at 17 and the doctor ordered her to be placed under the bili lights. Thankfully we could do it at our house, but it still was not easy. As soon as we put her in she started screaming. It was so sad! Once she wasn't crying so hard she was still just really fidgety and aggitated unless she was really really sound asleep. For the first little while the only time she could get out though was to feed her and calm her down.
By Saturday her levels had dropped down to 13.5... which is only 0.3 from where they don't need to be on the lights anymore but we were still instructed to keep her on them the rest of the weekend. We haven't had a lot of sleep around here the past few nights. Good news is--- she's down to 9.3 and no longer needs to "TAN."

Other than we are doing great!!! Nursing has been much easier the past few days. That was a real struggle for the first half of last week. I talked to 3 different lactation consultants and was still really struggling. But, things are looking up for us! Whooooo hooooo!

Tianna is still loving her sister very much. I think she's starting to get a little jealous because she wants to be carried more than usual. We are trying to help her still feel just as loved and cared for but it's a little difficult when I'm feeding the baby or something and she wants to be held. She really has handled things quite well though-- at least a lot better than expected. She's sometimes a little mother hen though- yesterday Adelia started to cry because I was setting up to feed her and Tianna was frantically saying "Where's the binky? Where's the binky?" as she searched through the whole room. It was really funny!

On Friday my mom had to leave. Sad. She has spent Thursday to Friday with us and we want to let her know that we love and appreciate her so much! She was a huge help-- even if she didn't feel like she did much. Just having her there was enough even if she hadn't done anything. Which she DID though. Thanks Mom! Love you!! We also love Luke's mom and Monica and Aden-- thanks for coming up this weekend. Sorry you got here right when the bili lights did and you couldn't hold her much. Tianna sure enjoyed your visit though!

Father's Day was nice. After Luke and Tianna got home from church we took a family walk (back to the church to pick up the diaper bag. Afterwards we hung out outside for awhile. I just love my family!!!!!!


The chair was Luke's Father's Day gift-- he just HAD to test it out and make sure it worked right! :D
We also gave him a copy of the picture below in a frame for his desk at work. He is such an amazing daddy and his girls love him soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo sooooooooo much!!!