Coming Home

 On Saturday, I was SO ready to go home!! I was sick and tired of the hospital.  Jeremy got there about 10:30am and I got showered and ready to leave.  We ate our celebration lunch of steak, baked potato, salad, veggies, roll, apple pie, and iced tea.  WE had to fill out the birth certificate......what's funny is when Jeremy showed up that day, we both had been thinking the exact same name.....Vivianne Lucille Kelley.  We also had Haven May Kelley in our heads.  We liked the nickname Vivi Lu though.  (Since being home, I find it VERY hard to call her Vivianne.  I think it is too many syllables or something, lol! I have been thinking that I should call her Haven May anyway or officially change it but, who knows.  I don't feel like I know her well enough yet.  I don't think babies should be named until about 6 months old!! That way, you know what really suits them!! LMAO!)

Then we waited and waited and waited!!! Ugh.  Dr. Jones was not showing up for his rounds and apparently we had to wait for him to okay me to go home even though he had okayed me to go home the day before.  Sarah and Matt were gonna come visit us but, we thought we were leaving the hospital.  Finally he showed up about 3:00.  He told me I could go home.  Great! 

 This was the outfit Jeremy picked out for her to come home in.  Doesn't she look so pretty!  Another annoyance to us was that usually Jeremy goes shopping to bring a "going home" outfit for each of the kids.  Which he can do because he is in an actual city when we deliver in Quincy.  This time we were just too busy and too far away from anywhere to do it.  So, he picked from some of the outfits I had already bought.  Really it was fine.  But, we just had traditions and things we did that we didn't get to do this time or do it differently this time.  But, there were also perks so whatever.  But, if we were to have another baby.....BAhahahah, nope!

We got home and wanted to relax and get settled in a bit before all the kids came home.  We had just gotten Vivianne to sleep and ourselves about 15 minutes into a nap on the couch (since I didn't sleep at the hospital) when my mom walked in the door with the three older boys!  Sheesh! I was annoyed.  Really annoyed because I had specifically asked her to keep them for another night so we could adjust and rest.  I figured that if they stopped by the house they would start begging to stay.  Luckily, they stayed just a few minutes and left pretty quick so we could rest some more.  The next day was a completely different story!! lol!! I couldn't wait for the kids to get home to hang out with our new, bigger, family!!  

We are super thrilled to have Vivianne in our family and our lives!  She is beautiful and perfect in every way.  She has a little birth mark on the back of her head at the base of her neck.  She has the sweetest smile.  She loves to eat and poops like a champ!  haha!  She is pretty whiny a lot of the time but, we love her anyway!   She just really likes being swaddled and close to mama which is fine with me....most of the time!!  :)

Visitors, Day Two

 The next day was the complete opposite of the day before.  Jeremy had stayed at the hospital with me for the first time ever.  Between the baby eating pretty much non-stop through the night and Jeremy snoring his brains out, I did not sleep at all!! LOL!  

But, Jeremy got up bright and early and left to get kids to school.  

He had to get stuff ready for Cedric's birthday slumber party that night too.  What in the heck we were thinking, when we scheduled that is beyond me.  So, off he went.  I was not really enjoying my hospital stay much.  I had to be moved to another room like I said.  It was pretty nice too but, just not the same.  The lack of pain medication was super annoying!! They said Dr. Jones had said I could have tylenol and motrin.  What the What did they say!?!?  Ugh.  And they didn't do much in terms of keeping tabs on me or checking on me but, whatever.  I was glad when Trisha texted me and said that she and Eden would be over to hang out for a bit!  They showed up around lunch time and had their lunch there too.  

We talked about how the other kids were doing and about baby names. 

 She is gorgeous, isn't she! 

 Eden was all about the baby!

 While they were there I kept saying that she looked like a boy to me because I didn't have any classic girl colors on her.  So we dug a purple bow out of my diaper bag and had her super girly looking lickety split!

They had to leave and I was left all alone until Liam and my mom stopped by after school.  Liam got to hold his new baby sister for the first time and looked so happy doing it.  I wish I had remembered to get a picture.

 I couldn't see Jeremy again that day because he took Cedric and his friends to see Godzilla at the movie theatre, then had a sleepover at the house with them.  We texted a lot!!!

And that was it for visitors the whole time at the hospital actually.

Visitors, Day One

 The downside of having the baby at the Carthage hospital is that everyone wanted to be there IMMEDIATELY after she was born.  haha!  For reals, it was annoying to us but, I understand it too!  The baby hadn't been cleaned up.  I was still hooked up to the IV, the epidural IV, the blood pressure cuff etc.  We had food waiting for us to eat and I was STARVING!  Jeremy hadn't even gotten to hold her yet.  Usually when I deliver in Quincy, we have at the very least a couple of hours before people come so we can relax, recover, and enjoy for a bit.  Also, the labor and delivery rooms are supposed to be the room you stay in the whole time you are in the hospital and there was someone waiting to get in mine so the nursing staff was kinda rushing us too.  

We also had hoped that by splitting the kids up three and three with the Grandmas that we wouldn't end up with all of them there at the same time, which is super loud and annoying.  We get it.  They are excited to meet a new sibling.  They are in a new place and it is all new to them but, good grief, I felt sorry for the other people in the hospital. ;)

 So, despite our best efforts, everyone came all at once.  The reason it was annoying is because everyone was talking at once, running around, the nurses still trying to do their things with me and the baby, trying to eat during it all, and get pics, and be happy.   It ended up being okay but, it just wasn't what we had pictured in our heads at all.  

 Cedric was pretty weirded out by everything I think.  Or just didn't know how to express himself.  Not sure really.  He just seemed real aloof.  

 Liam on the other hand was VERY interested in her!!  It was so sweet!! And he still is! 

 Grandma Trapp brought the older three out.  

 She found her thumb pretty quick and did this a few times right away.  

 

At Carthage hospital they use the tummy tub.  But, the nurse doing it had no idea what she was doing, lol!  Oh do we have some funny stories about that nurse, haha!  Anyway, they used to give away a tummy tub to the new parents when you gave birth there.  They don't anymore.  I would've liked to try it but whatever.  I got a new tub anyway.  Not that we use it that much.  You aren't supposed to bathe newborns much or even use soap.  

 Trying to get a bite (or many bites, lol) in while people visit.  

 The little ones!!

 People kept asking to hold the baby and Jeremy kept saying....but, I haven't even held her yet.  So, we made sure he was the first one to hold her after I had finished feeding her.  

 I think he likes her. ;)

 Eden has been smitten from the first moment she laid eyes on the baby.  She seriously loves her so much!

 Grandma and Grandpa Kelley getting some snuggles in too! 

 Grandma Trapp got some cuddle time in too!

 Check out Asher's face!!!

 I told you....she LOVES her!!

 Tristan is a great oldest child.  He thought the baby was pretty neat!

 Aunt Trisha finally got to put the camera down for a second to hold that baby!!

 Vanessa and Josh were next in line! 

 Only siblings can come back into the delivery room so the cousins had to look at the baby girl through the nursery window.