Bellybutton

Scarlett's little umbilical cord finally fell off today! Adam was the one who had to clean it every day because it grossed me out. Now she has a cute little bellybutton. We can give her a real bath now instead of a sponge bath.

Elliott is trying to help with Scarlett all of the time. He sings her songs when she is fussy and tells her "It's ok Scarlett, be patient" when she is hungry and cries. The only thing he hasn't tried helping with is changing her poopy diapers. When he sees them he yells "yucky poop-a-doop!"

Tomorrow is Scarlett's 2 week checkup. We are hoping that her jaundice has gotten better and that her weight has gone back up.

Scarlett

Scarlett was born on Feb. 25, 2009 at 8:34 am. She was 21.25" tall and weighed in at 8 pounds and 2 ounces. The surgery went great and we had no problems.




We were in the hospital for 3 days and were excited to come home. This was her first day home:


Scarlett is O+ and I am B- so she was born with jaundice. That was our only negative experience with the hospital. They have pediatricians that change shift every 12 hours and each of them had their own opinion on her condition. One would say that she was fine, the next would say that her condition was getting into a dangerous amount, then another doctor would say she was fine. Because of that, her level of jaundice went way higher than it should have. Now we have a special blanket for her that has brought it way down.

Elliott LOVES being a big brother! He is always trying to touch her and talk to her. We let him hold her tonight and when we tried to take her back he said, "No. She is mine!" He keeps telling us that he is going to bake her a cake or cook her a hotdog.

We took them to get photos yesterday and they came out great!






That's all for now. Hopefully we will keep up with this!