The First Night

It's pretty surreal to finally have Luke in the house with us.....BUT IT IS AWESOME!!!! We had an event-packed first night at home. First, Grandma Godinez drove as fast as she could from Kansas so she could be here to help out for a few days. In fact, she even managed to beat us to the house so she was waiting for us when we arrived! She couldn't wait to get her hands on the cordless baby since he was still on oxygen during her last visit. Then, after we had a chance to get settled, our neighbors, Emily and Jeffrey, knew it had been a long day waiting around at the hospital for Luke to be discharged, so they brought over a delicious dinner to celebrate. A bit later, the newest addition to the "cool block", Robert and Lindsay, came over to join in the festivities. The girls hung out inside while the boys did some "macho man" celebrating over cigars and adult beverages.

For his first night away from his brigade of nurses, Luke was a superstar! Although I was a bit nervous not to have the security of the oxygen monitors to let me know he really was okay, we all did just fine. Patrick and I traded off hanging out in Luke's room to do the feedings/diaper changings so the other one could get in a solid few hours of sleep. We started off the night with Luke in the pack 'n' play in our room, but then decided neither of us was ever going to get any rest! Plus, Luke REALLY wanted to spend some time in his room since he had been hearing so much about it for the past few weeks.

I don't think we ever fully appreciated a day at home with no plans in sight before Luke came along. We're usually running around doing 10,000 things, but we're taking a break from that for a bit. In fact, the cherry on top of our day is that I even managed to finish my Master's courses for the semester - thank goodness! We both have a break from our jobs, I have a break from grad school, and now it's time to do nothing but spend a fabulous day at home together as a family.