Baby's First Christmas

Thursday, December 25, 2008


Merry Christmas, everyone! Wow--what a day! Here at the hospital, I got dozens of homemade cards from some local kids. Santa brought me books, a stuffed bear, and even Rudolph! Mommy even got a pretty afghan that someone made and donated. No one wanted us to feel left out of Christmas even though we were stuck at the hospital.

Back home, on Christmas Eve, my big sis Racheal and Auntie Heather had opened one present each. They opened one for me too--actually our puppy Gizmo helped open my present since I'm not zen with the hand-eye coordination yet. Here's a cute clip of that--I can't wait to meet both of them. Please excuse my elf who forgot not to turn the camera sideways for video.




On Christmas day, Auntie Heather discovered that the power was out at the house. Duke Power told her there were over 700 people in the area without power, and they were working on it but didn't have an estimated time it would be fixed. Everything else was so strange about this Christmas, that having the power out was almost funny. If worse came to worse, she knew there was food at the hospital cafeteria. Fortunately, the power came back on at about 12:30, so Grandpa started the turkey and stuffing then.


They opened gifts at the house and later came to the hospital to bring Mommy her and my gifts. Mommy was glad to see the family. I hadn't been giving her much sleep. I keep falling asleep on her when she feeds me, so that takes longer than normal. Then she has to pump milk and clean bottles. (They're using bottles for me right now so they can measure how much I'm eating.) When she changes my diaper I wake up and get mad. Last night she only got 2 hours of sleep. I, on the other hand, have been getting tons of sleep, even during photo op sessions. Are you sure breast milk doesn't have tryptophan in it?


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