Kaiya- Day 3

Today we came home! Kaiya was given a clean bill of health by passing her hearing test, scoring a ZERO on her billiruben test and leveling off with only a 5.5% weight loss (7-10% is normal for a breastfed baby). She went right to sleep as soon as we placed her in her carseat and didn't make a peep all the way home. I want to mention as an aside that city driving has always stressed me out, but having your entire world strapped inside a little plastic seat is enough stress to drive someone downright crazy. I'm pretty sure my bloodpressure was about 20 points higher than normal by the time I got out of the car.

Coming home also meant introducing baby Kaiya to her big brother Cooper. There was a time early on in the pregnancy when I had half a concern about how Cooper would adjust to Kaiya's presence, but somewhere in my heart I kind of knew it would be okay. There was no way I would have predicted how awesome he would be with her. It's like he immediately claimed her as his. This was their initial introduction:

And this is where he will pretty much stay if we let him:

Needless to say, Cooper has taken quite well to his new baby sister:)

Also welcoming Kaiya home were her God parents Els and Jon, and her Aunt Brittany. All in all, it was a relaxing and wonderfully successful first day home.