Four weeks old!

I'm sorry, what? Four weeks - a month? Wow, times flies when you're...well you know what we've been up to.

Regardless, Katherine Elizabeth has survived her first whirlwind month as part of our family. I keep telling her it won't always been this crazy (mainly because that's what people keep telling me), but she doesn't seem to mind as long as her diaper is changed and her tummy is full.

As for me, I'm certainly feeling a lot better today than I was four weeks ago! Recovery has been much nicer this time around, actually, except the reminders of a healing incision whenever I sneeze or laugh. It's sad for me that I didn't get to enjoy Katie Beth's birthdate the way I would have wanted to, but if having surgery and then spending the day doped up on the morphine drip while she got stronger and stronger in the NICU was the way she needed to safely get here, then I will take it! And I'm so thankful for other modern technology that allowed Tyler to show me pictures of her from downstairs throughout the day, and actually let us introduce her to his parents and my sister on the day she was born, from hundreds of miles away, via skype.

It has been a jam-packed four weeks, but as the pictures show, having a newborn will force you to let the laundry pile, boxes stay unpacked, and phone calls go unreturned while you stop and stare and be awed.