All by our own-selves

Hannah and I not only survived our first week home alone together, we excelled! Okay, maybe not excelled, but certainly did pretty good. Monday was tough though, there was no Lance to hand her off to for the 'your turn' time after feedings. It only took a few days for me to figure things out and get some semblance of a routine down. I can't really use the word routine yet though because she is still learning. Sometimes she naps in the mornings, sometimes she naps in the afternoons - but there is always a good chunk of time where she doesn't want to nap but would rather have some talk time. We look at each other and I tell her stories, and then she smiles and coos back. She seems to have a lot to say.

We had a visit from Grandma Carol on Thursday and she brought us lunch! It's always nice when people bring food :) But Hannah is definitely getting to know her Grandma Carol, she has seen her several times already. She won't get to see her other Grandmas for quite a few weeks yet though.

Yesterday, our doula Amanda, came over for a bit of a follow-up, see how we're doing visit. She seemed pretty pleased with how Hannah is growing and how we seem to be doing, so that was good to hear. Funny part about that visit was that we had put Eleanor away and left Franklin out. That's usually what we do with the dogs, Franklin is just more calm and friendly with visitors, so he gets to stay out and say hello. Lance and him were sitting on one couch, Amanda and I were on the other one. I'd passed Hannah over to Amanda and she was holding her talking to her and Hannah was loving it. A couple times though, Hannah would let out a bit of a squawk and Lance said each time, Franklin tried to get off the couch to go see what Amanda was doing to his baby! So far, it has been Eleanor who has shown the protective interest in the baby, not really Franklin. So, that was kinda neat - he would never aggressively go after anybody, but just to see that he wanted to go help his squawking baby was cool. 

Hannah is going to grow up with some very great animals. Eleanor likes to give her a little gentle kiss every now and then and Franklin likes to put his nose right up to her and sniff. I'm so glad things are going well with the dogs and baby. They are, after all, our babies too!