Norah's visitors

The first visitor that Norah had was our friend Ashley.  She had agreed to stay overnight with me to help so that Gaetan could go home and help out at night with the kids.  :)  She pretty much arrived a few minutes after I got into my room (which was good timing!) with lunch for her and Gaetan.  I was still coming off the drugs so I was in and out during her first couple of hours there.  I was attempting to eat a jello cup and apparently had fallen asleep mid scoop in the air.  Like I was going back for another one and I just didn't make it... they thought that it was pretty funny, but I guess that I do that a lot when coming out of c-sections!

My jello cup fiasco...

Her second pair of visitors where Quebra and Dizzy!  They have made it to every single one of our children's births and have held them the day they were hatched!  That's pretty impressive.  :)  And it's pretty impressive that Dizzy is 3-3 for not dropping my babies!  haha.  I think newborns can be intimidating but they both do so well with them.  It was nice to see them and this time I was actually awake the entire time they were visiting!

While they were there my brother Dale and his girlfriend Marcella came to visit as well.  They brought Norah this really sweet outfit and a cute Sandra Boynton book.  Dale held her for a little bit, which was endearing.  He's so big and she is so 'small' comparatively!  For as much as he is about not having kids of his own he seems very comfortable holding his nieces and nephews!  :)  I was glad that he did get a chance to come and see Norah... and it meant a lot to me that he made the effort to come to the hospital.  :)

Unfortunately, those visitors got hustled out of my room rather quickly because I was feeling unwell.  Norah made it clear that it was time to eat, so they were going to go anyway, but as I was sitting up in the bed I felt really sick and I thought I was going to lose it forreal.  And, I figured that nobody wanted to be around for that, so it was a very quick good-bye indeed!  I am happy to say that I never did get sick, but there were a few close times... oof.

That first night Norah was a great sleeper.  We tried waking her up a few times to eat but she would have none of it.  She would half open one eye, look at us like, "you've got to be kidding me" and would go back to eat.  She did 7 hours, fed for a quite awhile (they called her a cluster eater) and then slept for another 7.  It was wonderful.  Ratty got a lot of sleep and I was doing really well with feeding her by myself and stuff!

The next day my parents brought Tristan and Lucy.  :) I was so happy to see them!  It was so strange to not see them all day the day before... I did get a chance to talk with them on the phone though which was really good for this Momma's heart.  Dude walked over to her and said, "Oh Norah!  I love her so much!" Lucy was really into her.  She wanted to hold her and kiss her and pretty much just give her everything... blanket, pacifier, anything!  It was really really good to see them, but it was nearing their nap time so they had to go :(.

Next, Gracie came to visit!  It was good to see her and catch up a bit before I fell asleep... oops.  I apologized ahead of time to her because I thought that it might happen.  Usually I do that to Quebra and Dizzy, but this time Gracie was the lucky recipient!  I think that Gaetan and Gracie got a chance to talk though and catch up so that was good!  She is another one that has come to the hospital for all our kids births which is amazing!

We appreciate all the visitors and love that everybody showed us and our family.  Its nice sharing our little bundle with people and to have people so interested in what's going on with our family.  She is so loved already!  It's amazing.  Thank you.

JVG