June 2017

Highlights Include: Having Reed with us!, Surviving a week without Daddy while he was at Falls Creek, Packing up the whole house to spend the night with Grandma and Papa, Lots of visitors, Lots of games with my girl, Reed’s first trip to Whataburger, and Mollie loving some bread.

Reed’s First Days

Reed’s first week was pretty sweet.  Exhausting for sure, but oh so sweet!  Most of the time Nate, Mollie and I took turns holding him…. one of us was always waiting for our turn. 

It included daily trips back to the hospital to have jaundice checks.  This was pretty frustrating because “there was a new computer system” and it took a long time to go to registration and have four different people “do this for the first time.”  After we went through registration, we would go back to the women’s center and wait for a nurse to draw blood from his little heel… and then wait for the results (which was also “taking a lot longer than usual because of the new system”).  This made all four of us pretty tired and we were ready for a whole day at home.

The good news came after our fourth check… his jaundice levels went down!  We were sure we would either be going back into the hospital or going home with a light, but God answered our prayers again and he was just fine.

We also had lots of visitors those first few days…

He was a pretty busy little guy… We had doctor’s visits, jaundice checks, lunch dates, visitors, newborn pictures and meals.  Then daddy had to go to Falls Creek and things got even crazier ;)  I was packing up the whole house to go to Grandma and Papa’s, even more visitors and even less sleep…. if I was ever going to have another baby, I would not do that again.  But, I was happy to have my little helper!  Mollie loved you from the start, Reed Isaac!  She has been the best big sister ever!

Reed’s Room

Over a year ago, we re-did our back bedroom as a place for all of our baseball stuff.  We called it the baseball room and it was an awesome guest bedroom where we worked out.  Often, when I would be back there I would pray that God would fill this room with a precious baby boy.

I can’t believe that in a few short weeks, there will be a baby boy here… and he will love his baseball room ;)

We didn’t have to do any painting or decorating as it was already a baseball room.  But we did redo a cheap craigslist-find dresser.  Mollie loved helping sand and paint… complete with hard hat and Minnie Mouse slippers.

We also ordered some precious initials for the main wall, and got all our baby stuff our of the attic.  Big sister approves of the crib!