Dana's first week at home has been a good one. She is just about the easiest baby (we'll see how long this lasts but we are loving it right now!). We have had lots of hands on deck to help us transition to a household of four. Sue has been here for over a week now and we certainly would not be as well rested or as well fed without her! Alice has been loving all the visitors as well. She has been spoiled with lots of quality time with Grandma Sue, Grandpa Chris and Gumma and Gogo and even Auntie Kristi! She is also finding out that with babies come lots of gifts and everything that arrives she claims as "mine." We are working on her sharing... But so far, so good! We couldn't be happier!
The picture below was taken on Dana's first morning at home. Alice was getting ready for school when all of a sudden we hear her say "I did it." Not knowing what she was so pleased with, we went into the living room to find that she had hunted down a pacifier for Dana (it was hidden away on the dining room table) and placed it right next to her! It was very cute and quite impressive!
Alice has been a very good sister to Dana but she certainly is testing the limits of what she's allowed to do with Dana. She is generally very gentle holding Dana but showed she can be pretty rough with her too (some squeezing and then a quick hit to the head - yikes!). Reeves and Alice had to have a very serious chat about how we treat Dana. Alice did not enjoy this!
This morning we had our first walk with Dana! It was a beautiful morning and it was a fun but pokey walk as Alice insisted on pushing her sister nearly the whole the way!
Today Dana tested out her new swing from Gumma as both Janet and Emma seem to love their swings. I think we found another fan in Dana. Looks like we are going to get a lot of mileage out of this one.
Dana has been incredible so far. She is a sleepy, sleepy girl, but so laid back for those brief moments when she is awake. She barely made a sound last night. She chirped just enough for her mother to know it was time to feed and then she peacefully went back to sleep. We are only now having an appreciation for the fact that Alice may not have been a very easy baby!
That's the update for now! Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
Saturday morning I took the girls into Trinity to watch the field hockey game. The team played a great game against Bowdoin and we were excited to see all of our Trinity friends. The first person we ran into was the Trinity Bantam! I was so hoping to get a picture of Alice with him but she was too shy to stand alone with the Bantam. Too bad... We had a great time catching up with all the Trinity folks. After a brief hello at the tailgate, we headed over to Kingswood for Reeves' soccer game. Alice was running low on rest at this point and challenged my ability to chase her onto the field hockey field while carrying a sleeping Dana in the baby bjorn! What a little rascal...
Sunday morning we had fun sister time. Alice was excited to hold her baby Dana. As you can see from the second sister photo, Dana was less excited by this bonding moment!
Dana trying out her hand-me-down bunny slippers!
After a leisurely morning, I took the girls out to the Pickin' Patch to find Alice a pumpkin. She was pretty excited about this and claimed that we weren't going to get just one pumpkin, we needed to find "two pumpkins." Unfortunately, this place was hit pretty hard by Irene and all their pumpkins were wiped out. So instead of walking through rows on pumpkins on the vine, the owners put down a patch of hay and laid down a bunch of imported pumpkins to try to simulate the pumpkin picking experience. It was a little sad, but still a fun activity. Alice enjoyed the hayride and we did a find a decent pumpkin for her. She found a lot of pumpkins that were "too big" or "too cold" to bring home.
Alice loved painting her pumpkin at home! 
