She’s still beautiful (and yellow!).
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Today we got to put Ella in her swing for the first time – captured above for your viewing pleasure.
She loved it for about 3-minutes before violently kicking and screaming.
We’ll try it again tomorrow.
I took some more pictures this afternoon and evening (no kidding?!).
Here are some of my favorites, but the rest can be found here.
Counting with Grandma Sheets?
Miss “Squishy Cheeks”
My daughter is NOT affected by Kryptonite! (actually this is a “phototherapy device” placed on Ella’s back to help rid the bilirubin causing the jaundice-yellow many of you have probably been wondering about…)
Flowers from Ella’s Grandpa and Grandma Sheets (my parents) to welcome Ella and to bring cheer to Jess and the whole house!
We are continuing to get Ella’s blood drawn daily to watch the bilirubin count. Please join us in praying for it to be significantly lower tomorrow!
After a few phone calls this afternoon, we were asked by Sherrie, KCH’s “lactation consultant” to come in for some more hands-on breastfeeding tips. Boy are we glad that we went to that meeting. Ella ate for more than 40-minutes straight while we were there and has been sleeping now for over 30-minutes! Jess got the “training” she needed and Mom Garrett and I learned a lot about how we could/should help Jess during this time!
THANK YOU, SHERRIE!
Some photos from last night’s Grandparents Sheets visit are now available. Full photoset here.
Yikes.
The first night as “parents in our own home” was completely different than I ever would’ve expected.
It’s everyone else’s child that causes the “up-all-night” nights, right?
Wrong.
I’m pretty sure I was able to gather about 3 or 4 10-minute naps in between the excruciating screams of a child that screams like I heard last night SHOULD NOT be possible.
Jess, on the other hand didn’t get ANY sleep last night. None whatsoever.
At 5AM, she came out to me (I moved to the couch) and said, “should I call my mom?”
I literally jumped up and said, “YES!”
Mom Garrett is now here and is providing the much-needed input and babysitting that these two “kids with a kid” need today.
My parents also arrived late last night and did all the great granparent-like reactions to our newborn daughter. They are in love!
We’re on our way to the hospital this afternoon to chat with the “lactation consultant”. Ella has decided that she’s hungry but she doesn’t want mommy’s milk right now!
Pray for these “kids with a kid”, would ya?! This is a new experience that’s absolutely making us “grown up”!
Today at 4:45PM, our daughter, Ella Marie, came home.
It’s amazing to think that she was born just this week and already she is home with us in our home!
I can’t imagine you getting tired of seeing pictures of our new daughter, so in Ella’s honor, we’ve started her OWN website – www.ellasheets.com is now the site where you will find a NEW daily photo of our darling daughter. The idea is to take a photo of her EVERYDAY for the first year of her life – the biggest “changes” come during this year, so we want to capture those changes in digital-format and keep track of them there! Currently, you can view 4-pictures on that site – she’s been with us for 4 days, so there are 4-pictures! You get the idea.
The site may grow as Ella grows, but currently it holds a photo-a-day of our new baby girl!
Of course there will still be MORE photos here on stevansheets.com – in fact, here you go:
