Finally home

See? Look, proof!

So as I write this, we've officially been home more than one full day. We're all doing pretty good, actually. I think all three of us were pretty anxious the first night, and none of us got a whole lot of sleep, but the new day finds us a little more self-assured. We had a checkup with Lily's new pediatrician, Dr. Battey, this morning, and we have it on good authority that we didn't break her overnight. In fact, Dr. Battey says she's the picture of health, and everything is just fine. Whew! So now that we all know that there's nothing intrinsically life-threatening about our house, I think we'll all breathe easier tonite.

(especially since I bought that ionizing HEPA air filter because I thought she sounded a little stuffy. Paranoid much?)

But I guess I'm getting ahead of the story...in our last post, we reported that we were due to come home yesterday morning. Well, turns out that was a bit overstated. We showed up bright and early to get ready to go (Dad, left, explains to Lily what's about to happen). But by the time the doc came by to check us out, it was like 3 in the afternoon (and THEN she needed to get one more shot, so once we were on our way it was more like four. I half-believe this may be intentional on the doc's part. Between the long delay, and a miscalibrated monitor that kept giving her false alarms, by the time they let us go we had more or less crossed from nervous trepidation to at least nervous eagerness to be gone. :-)

Anyways, like I said, the delay wasn't so bad. It gave us plenty of time to take a few more pictures, the better to remember a place that actually holds some good memories for us.

Aurora, one our our favorite nurses

all the Pinkys

dwarfed by our carseat

And, of course, Mama couldn't resist getting some souvenir footprints before leaving.

So, that was that! We buckled and wedged little Lily into her carseat and headed home. Yay! So, Dad is not taking quite as few pictures at the moment because we actually have to take CARE of our baby instead of just watching how easy the nurses make it look, but as things settle I'm sure we'll start going picture crazy again, so stay tuned!