Elijah's First Week

For those of you who are interested, here is a picture of me about an hour before we went into the hospital to have the new baby. I was told to eat only a "light snack," so I'm having some cereal and holding Jaron's soon-to-be new stuffed St. Bernard, "Bernie."

Here are a few more pictures from the delivery room...

Elijah spending some time with his Mimi!

Jaron's first reaction to his new baby brother was...interesting. He was incredibly hyper in the hospital, and we gave him his new stuffed doggy first. Then he pointed to Elijah and said, "what's that?" He answered his own question and said "Elijah! I wanna hold him." So we let him hold his new baby brother, and he spent about 3 seconds doing that before he wanted Elijah to go back in "his bed." We caught this picture in the 3 seconds of Jaron holding Elijah.

Jaron has never been that good at posing for photographs, and so this is the best we could do as far as a picture of Cary and I and the little boys when Jaron visited the hospital that morning. I think Jaron is picking his nose...nice.

So then we moved on to the presents "from Elijah." That seemed to be tons of fun!

Jaron enjoyed playing with his new Mickey Mouse car and fold-up track for the duration of the visit to the hospital. :)

Now, here is a boy that knows how to hold a baby! Jordan came up to the hospital after school on Wednesday and held his tiniest baby brother! Look at how sweet they are together!

Here we are at Jordan's visit to the hospital.

Poppop and Mammas came to see him.

Here is Holly (Gigi) holding him.

Kim got here the next day to see her baby nephew!

Here is Grandaddy with his 3rd grandson!

Creede, Lori and Creede Hudson came to visit too.

Here is Elijah all packed and ready to go home from the hospital.

When we got home, Jaron was ready to REALLY hold Elijah now. Look how proud he is! He has done so well during the last 10 days! I am so proud of all our boys!

Look at that sweet face!

He is definitely enjoying his lamb swing.

So life at home is still just as it has always been! Elijah just needs a scooter, car, bike, etc. I have a feeling he's going to learn to keep up with the other boys pretty quickly... :)