No Go

London LOVES to be swaddled and HATES to be naked. He gets cold easily (twice in the hospital they said his temperature was low and he came very close to being taken to the nursery and put under a warmer). Knowing that I cranked up the heater and made sure everything was nice and toasty but London still vetoed the mini photo shoot I had planned!

We'll try again later!!!

Homecoming

Last Friday, London and I were released from the hospital...woohoo!!!

Some of the flowers from our room...

Orange roses from The Pool's

A Baby Boy Bouquet from Grandpa & Grandma

When we got home The Sunderman's had a beautiful orange balloon and flower bouquet waiting for us...so sweet!!!

The dry erase board in our room which had the handmade card from the trio and London's NICU picture that the nurses sent down with Patrick to me in recovery.

Ready to go home in his baby blue outfit from Grammie

Mommy & London

Itty Bitty Boy in his car seat
He weighed just over 7lbs when we left (as of yesterday he was 6 1/2 lbs...not the big boy we thought he was going to be!)

On Saturday, Granny & Grandpa's new ACE Hardware store had its Grand Opening. London and I weren't able to go but Daddy took the trio. There was a clown with a monkey for entertainment but the trio came home talking mostly about the hot dogs, balloons and Sprite!

Bobka with Abby the Monkey

Trio with Abby

Later that afternoon, Aunt Pammie and Jason came over. The Georgia Guinn Triplets sent The Texas Guinn Triplets each a gift card and a Swaddle Design blanket for London (how sweet was that!?!??!). The swaddle blanket had instructions so we put Jason to the test...

Reading the instructions

Lookin Good!

Not too shabby!!!

On Monday Aunt Sandy, Uncle Jake, and Maw Maw brought us dinner and got to hold London for the first time.

Maw Maw & London

Aunt Sandy, Maw Maw & London

Then on Tuesday, London celebrated his 1 week birthday :)

Thursday night, Bobka and Granny brought us dinner...

Bobka and London

Grammie took off Thursday and Friday and kept the trio for us. They had a blast and we got to stock up on some sleep and spend some extra cuddle time with the newbie :)

London in his Soothing Center

And my new favorite baby product...The Snuggle Nest. London gets his own little bed but still gets to sleep with us!

Tacky :)

These picture are from last Monday (the day before London arrived). Aunt JuJu & Emmy were in town so we pulled out the Bella Ballerina and all kinds of girly accessories for Lauren and Emmy to play with...

Emmy accessorizing (she also found some not so girly boots to try on!)

The boys wanted to play too - Lathan, I'm afraid this picture may come back to haunt you one day!!!

Emmy had trouble walking in her heels (Lauren thought it was hilarious!)

Emmy & Lauren

Bella Ballerina Fun

Logan tried it out too...

Such a WILD man!!!

The babies holding the baby...

Lathan & London

Lathan & London

Lathan & London

Lauren & London

Lauren & London

Lauren & London

Logan's Turn

Logan unsure of this noise!

Emmy liked his foot

and his cute little nose!

He's a keeper!

More fun with London :)

Lauren & Lathan lovin on London

Lathan & London

Grandpa holding London for the 1st time (Lathan supervising)

The hospital sent the trio a Sibling Cake

Brittany & London

Granny holding London

Jason & London

Our fun for the night...when the nurse came to get London and take him for a bath she returned asking if we knew where London's id bracelet was. We looked all over the room but couldn't find it. The nurses response "well then I can't give you your baby back". Hmmm, her only suggestion was for Patrick to follow her back to the nursery and talk with the charge nurse. I went back through my pictures from today and saw that he woke up this morning with the bracelet on but somewhere between that and Grandpa's visit, the bracelet disappeared. He was taken for a hearing test during the questionable period but the nurse still insisted that we lost it! Even when we finally got things squared away (the charge nurse made us all new tags to match), London's nurse handed him to me and said "tell your mommy not to lose your bracelet this time". WHAT!?!?!?!?!

Thankfully its all over now and London is sleeping peacefully in a bassinet right next to me. We can't wait to go home!

London Day 1

Just about time to call it a day (a very good but long day)!

London spent the first 6 hours of his day in the level 2 NICU. They showed him to me right after his delivery and then took him aside to get him cleaned up, He had a very healthy cry at first but as time went on, he started turning a dusky blue and having difficulty clearing his lungs. He was placed under an oxygen hood and in an isolette until he stabalized a little better.

I waas pretty bummed because this meant that I didn't get to hold him or get a good look at him (AND they fed him his first and second bottles without me) but thankfully it was a short NICU stay and by about 3:45pm, Patrick (my hero!!!) was able to talk them into letting Mommy meet her new baby boy.

Fresh London :)

Family getting a peek as he makes his way to the NICU


Getting his first bottle


Anxious Triplets awaiting London's NICU discharge


FINALLY...Daddy & London


Lauren catching a glimpse


Lauren holding London


Lathan holding London


Logan's Turn


Grammie and London



Aunt JuJu & London

Mr London

Aunt Pammie, Emmy & London



Guinn Family

And a visit from Aunt Nat to end the day :)

Off to bed now....can hardly keep my eyes open one more minute!!!