You take the good with the bad

Day 2 schedule, originally uploaded by Ava's Antics.

I almost didn't post this picture. Not that its due to Ava by any means! If you look close you can see her scratching her head while she ponders whether String Theory is a feasible basis for Intergalactic Hyperspace Translocation (IHT for short). Meanwhile, I am in the unfortunate position such that I am directly underneath a light and it makes me look even balder than I am. Seriously..... It's the light.

Ava had a busy schedule today. It was as follows:

7:30 AM - Eat breakfast
7:45 AM - Sleep
11:30 AM - Eat lunch
11:45 AM - Sleep
4:00 PM - Eat Linner
4:20 PM - Sleep
7:20 PM - Eat dinner
....... I bet you can't guess what she's doing now.

She's making this baby-raisin' stuff look easy! She even let us sleep for FIVE HOURS IN A ROW last night before she needed to interrupt her sleeping with a brief jaunt at soothing her appetite. I'm thinking I should call the Guinness people to see if this might be a record for a baby's first night.

Tomorrow we are going home. Tomorrow we are also picking the dogs up from the kennel (where they have been staying throughout this experience). I think they'll resent the fact that Ava gets to lay on our new couch and they don't get to. On our old couch they used to wedge their way in-between our outstretched bodies, ESPECIALLY is there was a blanket involved. They picked up pretty quick on the fact that they were no longer allowed up there, but I think they still hold a grudge. You know what? Too bad! My baby deserves the best!

Got Milk?

Got Milk?, originally uploaded by Ava's Antics.

Ava's been trying to breastfeed lately, but apparently she has a one-sided preference (you know what I mean right?). Last night we had her stay in the nursery so we could catch up on some sleep. They did bring her in at around 4 AM last night so she could get some mammary-minutes and I burped her when we tired of getting her to grasp the impossible task of breastfeeding. She's been working on it some more today though and she's getting better.

Some of the 2nd graders from Doni's school had a tour of the maternity ward today coincidently. They wanted to see Ava, but she was busy working on her "skills" at the time.

*Late breaking news*......

There are more than one group of 2nd graders coming through at different times, so Ava is making a trip to the nursery to be the source of many ooh's and ah's.

*Back to your regularly scheduled programming*

We'll be staying at the hospital until tomorrow sometime. Hopefully we'll get lots of visitors before then!