A New Home!!!

Mae Ella is here!!! Our home is a new, much more exciting, and somewhat more cluttered place!

Mae's birth was an incredible experience for our whole family. The three of us bonded in ways we never knew possible. The births of Mae's two new cousins, Hazel Ann Balling and Josie Scout Tribe, made it all that much more exciting. Josie Scout was born in the delivery room directly above our hospital room. We arranged for the nurses to assign them to a room as close to us as possible, and so they ended up two doors down!

Life at home has been amazing too. Definitely much to adjust to! The new sleep schedule is interesting, to say the least. I've been quite lucky in the diaper department. As you may know, I have a deeply rooted fear of diapers. However, with much dedication and Eirene's loving encouragement, I have changed quite a few thus far. I say I've been lucky because the diapers I have changed have been relatively "low maintenance". Eirene hasn't been so lucky, however, as she has experienced several poo fountains immediately upon removal of the diaper! My luck has changed also, as today I experienced my first. I must say, I think I handled the situation quite well; no sooner had the first new clean diaper been attacked by a steady stream of yellowy brown seeded Maepoo, when I formed a makeshift dam out of wetwipes at the top of her bum as to protect the clean pajamas and babyback from being infiltrated. Once the aftermath of that attack was sufficiently cleaned up, a second clean diaper was soiled upon placement by an even nastier assault. Many, many wet wipes later, the third clean diaper also took heavy fire, but this time it was only your-ine.

Eirene has been amazing throughout the labor, delivery, and life here at home. I don't know how she finds the energy, but we're still tickin'!
BH