Our first few days home, we got to work finishing preparations for Christmas and enjoying our brand new bundle of joy. It was nice to have Chris home for the first almost 2 weeks so that he could help me with the lifting, taking care of Wes and Nate and wrapping presents.
Lots of people came to the hospital and house to visit Nate those first few days. Most our family came to the hospital, including Gramma Dee Dee, Linde, Jaime, Adam, Gramma Lou Lou, Papa, Liz, Jack, and Mike. Jen & Austin came by the hospital a couple times. It turned out that Stephanie was in town the weekend that I ended up delivering Nate, so it was nice to see her and her mom Vicki a couple times. Mike Schneider came by the hospital and brought me some chocolate chip pie, so much better than flowers :). Alisa stopped by to get some holds in and keep me company. Marilyn, Katie and Kylie took Wes for one of the days to play at their house (which he loves more than anything and is still talking about 5 months later) and brought Wes back to the hospital where they got to meet little Nate. Amy, Lewis and Riley also stopped by and Riley pulled the emergency cord in the bathroom (because she's 5 and it looked like something fun to pull), I replaced it and the nurses never responded...hmmm...I wonder if that thing really even works.
The day after we got home, a bunch of our friends came by and brought us lunch. Mike, Suzanne, Will and Cate; Sean, Jen and Patrick; Rob and Luke all came by to get a peek at the new baby boy. Stephanie, Brian and Lynn also came by that day. We went to Papa and Lou Lou's that night and Grandma Honey, Papa Fred and Uncle Chris got to meet our sweet boy. Anyone who didn't get to meet Nate in those first few days didn't have long to wait. Christmas was one week after he was born and Nate made sure to make an appearance at all the family functions.
We had been wanting to take Wes for a drive to look at Christmas lights, so on Gramma Dee Dee's birthday we packed everyone up in the van, got some hot chocolate and headed out. We got to see a few cool displays but then eveything started turning off. We hadn't gotten very efficient at getting everyone ready and out of the house yet, so by the time we headed out it was so late that everyone's lights starting turning off. There really is very little concept of time in those first few weeks with a newborn. We had fun seeing the lights that we did and decided we would try and make it out one more time after Christmas and before everything was taken down.
Before we knew it, Santa Claus was coming to town!
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