At home

It's been a pretty good week for us. We were able to leave the hospital at about 10:30 on Wednesday. I've been feeling great - though I will say that the afterpains hurt a lot more this time around... but, that has downgraded to a few mild cramps here and there.
Ruthie is doing pretty well as we try to get her on the EASY routine. The first night home she slept until 6am or so - I guess we were all too tired to get up and eat. Plus she was probably glad to sleep in a nice comfy bed with no one poking or prodding her or messing up her swaddle in the middle of the night. After that, it was more like 3-4am and then again at 6-7am. The E(eat) has been pretty good, but she still wants to sleep a lot, so I end up waking her up 2-3 times during the feed to make sure she gets enough. I'm taking her to the doctor tomorrow because it looks like she has reflux just like the boys did. Guess that's just something my babies will have :( At least they have medicine for it! After she eats, she's not up for too long before her nap. Interestingly, she does NOT want a binky most of the time. It actually seems to anger her. I think it's related to the reflux - drinking milk probably soothes her throat and that dang binky doesn't have milk in it. We tried a night without her having a binky and she slept just fine so maybe she just won't need it. We'll see what happens if/when they get her on some meds.

The boys mostly just ignore her. Ben completely ignores her, but Tristan likes to say "HI BABY RUTHIE!" really loud. I'm sure she'll be a good sleeper with 2 loud brothers ahead of her ;) I'm sure they'll get more interested in her when she does something other than eat and sleep. It's been an adjustment for them, and they get pretty touchy sometimes over nothing. The kindergarten has a very specific pickup routine - the parents stay in the car and have a window sign with the kid's name. The kids are supposed to go get in the car and then the parents pull forward if they need time to get the kids buckled. Ben had to be carried by his teacher to the van when Neil picked him up on Thursday. His teacher was very understanding though, and said his behavior is typical for having a new sibling in the home.

Today we had lunch with my parents and stopped by to visit Grandma Ruth and Grandpa Andrews on the way home. We of course were sent home with plenty of treats and rolls. We're glad that Grandpa is doing well, he was in the hospital for a few days because they found blood clots in his leg.

On the way home from Lehi, Ben was singing the days of the week song. Tristan yelled "BEN! You're singing it wrong! It goes 'Sunday, Friday, Tuesday, Saturday, Monday, Wednesday, Sat-ur-day'" Neil and I cracked up. Tristan is very dramatic and was EXTREMELY agitated with Ben for singing it wrong :)