In all my excitement to get pictures posted, I know I have been posting these in a somewhat backwards order. Colin isn’t just now coming home, he came home Saturday, November 19th, but I am only now parsing through the photos.
We were very excited to get out of the hopital—as you can imagine!—after spending nearly six days in a pair of antispetic smelling rooms. We were kind of upset to learn that although Debra was to be discharged at 9 or 10 Saturday morning, Colin had to stay a full 48 hours after his birth, meaning we were stuck there even longer until 1:32p that afternoon.
In any event, once we were given the green light, we had to get Colin ready to go home. It took both of us to get him into something more than the t-shirt and diapers he’d been wearing in the hospital. Once we finally got him into his “going home” clothes, he looked great. Thanks to Grandma Reed for the wonderful outfit!
As has seemed to be true with everything new for the baby, the first time we tried to get him into the car seat was a … challenge … as you can see from Colin’s “happy” expression. He was much happier—dare we say ecstatic? or would that be pushing it?—upon arriving home for the first time. A wonderful “daddy” blanket made by his Aunt Suzy and Grandma Reed kept him warm on his ride home. (The same blanket also kept Colin’s daddy warm while he slept in the chair next to mommy at the hospital on several of those first nights in the labor and delivery room!)
The first thing Tundra did when we brought Colin home was investigate. She is still a bit tripped out about all of this “Colin” stuff. She’s still ticked off since she used to get to sleep in the Pack-and-Play before we brought Colin home. I’d be pissed, too, I guess, if I got to use a cozy new bed for a while only to have it taken away for use by another—nosier!—person a month or so later.
Grandpa Carl and Grandma Judie had sent a wonderful bouquet of flowers to welcome Debra and Colin home from the hospital. In an extremely well-timed delivery, the flowers arrived about an hour before mother and child…
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