Day 2: Learn & Practice, FAST!

It's Dad writing!  I thought I'd add some thoughts and memories of the first full day that we had with our little Wisebaby. Right now I'm waiting for dinner to heat up while Mom's feeding so I'll have to use some bullet points to get ideas down fast. 

While we were working through all of the visitors in the hospital (nurses, doctors, birth certificates, audio testing, photographer, and the required family and friends) it dawned on me that they try to give you two days in the hospital after a birth so that there's one day of teaching by nurses, and then you have one day to practice with your safety net in place (again, the nurses.). Well, since Wisebaby was born at 10:15 at night, the hospital counted that as Day One, meaning that we had to cram all of the normal two day processes into just one day (Day Two.)  That meant that we had a lot of teaching overnight immediately after Wisebaby was born, meaning we got little sleep and rest. 

Wisebaby's first family visitors were Nama and Papa. They stopped by early Tuesday morning. Then Nana and Pop-Pop stopped by mid-morning. Aunt Tammy stopped by around lunch, and Tia Elissa brought Great-Grandma Donna to visit late afternoon. Then we had return visits from Nana and Pop-Pop so that they could get a little more Wisebaby time. Unfortunately Tia Elaine and Tio Daniel were on their way home from vacationing in Canada and Michigan, and Tio Luvin was still in San Angelo helping teach at a band camp. But that's what happens when you decide to make your entry a week earlier than planned! :-)

Dinner Tuesday night was our "celebration dinner" from the hospital: steak and lobster tail!  Mom and I have been looking forward to this for a long time!  Yes, because its a delicious meal that we would never make for oursekves, but more importantly because this night truly is a celebration of our love and efforts for Wisebaby, three years in the making. Yum!

During the night (Night #2) we took the opportunity and sent Wisebaby to the nursery for the night, except for feedings. We're sorry, but we needed sleep and knew we'd be no good for our Wisebaby when we got home if we didn't take that opportunity to rest.  After a few hours of sleep, we woke and prepared for an eventful Day 3 of returning home and figuring out how to operate this baby that didn't come with an instructions manual!