Tayte's first week......

It's been a pretty easy first week cause all she does is this....

oh the life of a newborn

I lay her down on the ground with no blankie on her to try and wake her up, but she is just dead to the world

Oh I love this stage where they will just sleep anywhere and always cuddle with you and never give you any grief. Too bad it doesn't last longer, I know any day now she's gonna start waking up more.

She had her first doctors apt. last Mon. She weighed 6lbs 7oz (lost 8 oz) and they measured her length 20 1/2 (which means she grew an inch? I don't think they measured her right at the hospital.) Everything looked good, except they said she had a little jaundice and wanted me to go right to the lab to do a blood test. So I had to hold her while they poked her than squeezed blood out of her heel for like 3 minutes, so sad:(

The dr. called me that afternoon and said she's right on the borderline of her jaundice being ok or not, so he wanted me to go back to the lab the next day and do another test to see if it got any better. Poor baby! I hated having to do that again! But luckily the results turned out better, so no more.

They told us to lay her in the sun a little bit each day to help with her jaundice.

I think she likes it. Starting early, our bathing beauty.

Her big sisters just love her to death. I set her down on the ground and leave for a minute and everytime I come back to this. They always want to be right by her.

And this, playing peek a boo

and whenever she cries, they sing her a song

And this was the cutest. Madix got her favorite nursery rhyme book and set it up in front of Tayte and her and Ty took turns singing them to her.

She reunited with cousin Jace who is just about 2 1/2 weeks older than her. Crazy to think they were just in heaven together waiting to come to earth.

just cuddling with cuz, Jace didn't seem to mind

first bath, wasn't a big fan of it. Dave held her while I washed and she peed all over him:)

She was happy once she got all covered and warm. Nothing like a freshly bathed baby!

Dave is home for 5 days! it's so wonderful! and the girls have loved having him home. He has done such a good job playing with the older girls so they don't feel left out. He took them to the zoo and here he is having a sleepover on the tramp! They had lots of treats and popcorn and a movie. The girls were SOOOO excited. Mads only lasted about an hour than came inside with me, but to my surprise Dave and Ty slept out there all night. What a good dad he is!