Last Day in the Hospital, Coming Home with Baby!

This was the sun starting to come up ....

Miss Elly is in her little hospital bassinet

She started getting fussy so Nonna had to fix that.  This was the first time she had a pacifier.  I only used it to let Shila and Kale sleep as much as I could let them.  Shila was (and continues to be) a big champ with the breastfeeding ...

Proof Nonna is awesome.  Shila is sleeping, Elly is sleeping, and Kale is sleeping.   And I'm sitting in a rocker all night with my feet propped up on a chair.

She had a big big dirty diaper. She tried to tag me ... LOL. She doesn't like her bottom changed through. So I popped a paci in her mouth to try to keep letting mommy and daddy sleep, and it worked, lol. She's sleeping again now, no paci. Just ‪Baby Elly cuteness

Seriously - I was changing her diaper and this big big huge POOP BUBBLE came out of her butt.  It was like she was chewing black tarry bubble gum and blowing a bubble out of her butt.  I had to pop it.  Then came a smaller one.  And then some ooooyegooey tarry newborn poop .... and I sighed.  I stood there for a little while, and I starred at her....  and went .... "I hope you are done now, because I am going to finish changing your diaper.  But I do appreciate the surprise."

Now let's commence with Elly cuteness  .....

She put her feet up on the side, Daddy moved them down, she put this back up ....  apparently she has attitude already!

Mommy wanted to dress her up a bit, so we did....

Shila doesn't realize how beautiful she is.  And she is an even more beautiful and loving Mommy.

Shila told me she thought about doing photography .... and she had fun playing with my camera.  She took the following pictures....  I was holding Elly ....

Poppy got to Hold Elly ....    that little girl has his WRAPPED around her fingers already ....

Photography session before we leave the hospital....

Now we're getting ready to go home.....

Car seat practice .....

 Pre-release weight.....  5lbs 15.8 oz ....

We're taking half the hospital ....  let's see, Shila stole a gown ("I always take a gown") ... Pillows because she loved them.... all the diapers she could find...  wipes.... towels....  I told her if she got charged for them... LOL.... oye.....  ("But I loooooove them")

Last thing Shila wanted to do before leaving was erase her room board.   She left a little message too ...

Shila took these.....

Daddy trying to escape ... but she still has her auto-theft device ....

Finally getting her anti-theft device removed.  She's OURS NOW!  RUN!!!

Getting in the carseat for realz now....

It's time to FINALLY go home ... with a baby ......

Shila's last nurse Cherie - she was get.   LOL.  I don't know how many times I got called the kids "Sister" at the hospital .... including by Cherie ... kept getting "You aren't old enough to be a Grandma" ... lol...  well, yeah, I am.  And I kept getting "You are going to be helping her right Mom?"  LOL.... Cherie was all impressed about how I was taking care of Shila, making sure all the important stuff was being recorded (so was Kale) ... making sure she had fresh ice water, making sure she was walking and had someone to fall on if she was up ... just everything - I was trying to be as supportive as possible...   at one point Cherie goes "I want a mom like her" LOL ...

We had a couple of things to do before we got home - had to stop at Nana's .. had to stop at the gas station, the store, get meds (which insurance wasn't covering ANY of Shila's meds - not even her pain pills) ...

When we finally got home the kids were so excited.

She looks sooooooooooooo tiny in her bassinet ....

Nathan holding Elly for the first time.....

Kaedyn holding Elly for the first time (He didn't want to let her go) ....

Kaedyn drew these for Elly ....