Finally Home!

We brought our Amelia Ann home on April, 1!

Big Brother William was waiting for us outside and riding his bike when we drove up. Here he is peeking into the car as his baby sister.
The proud daddy getting ready to take his baby girl out of the car.
Finally home!
Family of four in front of our house
Bringing her inside through the other door - the front door was locked. William is being a "helper" by carrying the baby seat with daddy.
Look, the baby brought another present for the big brother!
Daddy and his baby girl
The big brother reading a book to his baby. What a great helper we have!

Random Hospital Pictures...

There were a few hospital pictures that didn't get put with any of the other posts. But, I still wanted to share them....

One of the things I was trying to do the night I went into labor was grab the carseat to bring with us. We've been keeping Ernie in it to 1) Keep William out of the seat and 2) Help William understand that we needed to be careful with the new little person who would need to ride in the seat. However, in the midst of contractions, it appears that Ernie came with us to the hospital! We didn't notice until we went to put Amelia into the seat to take her home. If you look closely, you'll see I did manage to unbuckle the bottom buckles before I got distracted by a contraction. So, not only did Ernie come with us for the ride to the hospital, he wasn't securly strapped in.
"You know you're a dad when a happy hour is a nap!" John got this shirt as part of a pajamas set a llllooooooooooonnnng time ago, way before we had kids. We found them at Target on clearance after Father's Day for $0.98. Seriously cheap pajamas and we couldn't pass them up. We always had to be careful when people were visiting because we didn't want to accidentally "make an announcement" to them that we didn't mean. Now that we have the kids to make the Tshirt true, it is getting kind of worn out. But, we still think it is fun! We also have a similar picture of him with William on the night William was born.
Snoozing with Mama...Mama may have been snoozing also. Us girls like to snooze together... Hopefully that is a hobby she continues to excell at (the snoozing).

Going Home

The third morning in the hospital, we were scheduled to be discharged "sometime in the morning". We had asked our nurses if we could try to get going a little on the early side so we could be home before lunch time. That way we could have a little bit of time with our big boy before he went down for a nap. Plus, we just wanted to be home!

Getting dressed for the first time...this girl does NOT like to have her clothes off...
Putting her into her pretty dress...I still can't believe we got to use this outfit (it's really a girl!)!
Socks...
A silly face while putting on her dress...
Tiny arms through tiny holes...
Harder than it looks!
Almost done...
Buckled into her carseat for the first time. Something about these hospital hats...they don't stay on our kids' heads.
Okay, two things we hate. Clothes off and carseat.
Really, really hate the carseat

What did William do?

And what was William doing with Grandma the whole time we were in the hospital? Let me tell you - they were busy!

They decorated (and ate!) Easter cookies!

More Easter cookies!
They baked and decorated birthday cupcakes for Amelia's birthday
and ate some of the decorations...
Look at all the pretty cupcakes!
They rode bikes in the neighborhood
They went to our music class together on Wednesday morning!

The hospital Pictures

Fingers and Toes

In the craziness that was the morning of Day 2 of the hospital stay, the photographer came in to take our pictures. The hospital had just changed photography companies at the beginning of the month, so it was a different set up than when William was born. And I have to say that I am glad - I didn't care much for William's hospital pictures. So, here are a few of our favorite hospital pictures!

P.S. There aren't a lot of pictures with John because the baby decided she was HUNGRY during his part of the session. The photographer actually decided to go shoot (with a camera) another family and come back to see us later because she was so crabby. Luckily, I knew just how to fix her up :) and I got my pictures taken with her on the return trip.

PPS Just as we were starting our session, William arrived with Grandma. Totally unplanned, but we were happy to get a few pictures of him with the baby. However, they didn't take a picture of the whole family. Why? I don't know. But, they did get a sweet one of my mom with the baby.