Addelynn's 1st Day

We were pleasantly surprised with how alert and responsive Addelynn was in 6 hours after birth. Her eyes were wide open and it was wonderful just to stare into them. It's was also relieving how content and easy going she was given that she screamed for the first 20 minutes straight of her life. Just over an hour after birth Lana and Addelynn had their first breast feeding session. Overall it went fairly well, just a little difficult to get Addelynn to open her tiny little month wide enough so as to not hurt mommy. After that we spent the next few hours calling our families and just hanging out. Then after the second feeding session, around 9am all three of us finally crashed for some much needed rest. We spent most of the day rotating feeding, hanging out, and catching up on sleep.

Apparently, the email updates kept most family members up way past their bedtime to check email every 10 minutes. Kinda makes us laugh, but we definitely appreciate it. Here's a note that Jenne Sprunger sent on about 4am on Kit's naming preferences for her cousin.
Just incase you were wavering on her name, Kit's choice of names today are:
Choice#1 Tinkerbell
Choice#2 Tinkerbell

Overall, Addelynn slept quite beautifully with very little fussing and fairly easy to calm. Later in the afternoon, Addelynn's 1st visitors arrive. Steve and Liz came by and brought Lana a beautiful vase of flowers. It was really good to see them and fun to see their excitement. Currently, they are also doing us a huge favor by keeping our crazy dog, even though Steve's parents are in town and they have a ton people over tomorrow to celebrate Will's 1st birthday (which is also Sept 26th). So we won't be going to his party, but I have an inkling that their may be a joint birthday party next year.

It's a little crazy to realize that we are parents now and responsible for this little life.... Let's all just hope we don't screw it up. :)

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