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So we are into our second day home. But the craziness/fun doesn't stop for us. Some of you knew that with the addition of Eli to our family, it put us in a dilemma as to where to house all of us, as we have 2 bedrooms upstairs and 2 bedrooms downstairs. So after much thought and debate. We decided to swap our house around and move the bedrooms down stairs and the boys would share one room (it's the largest of our bedrooms and can fit a bed and a crib) and we would sleep in the other room downstairs. Then our office and guest room will get moved upstairs. We felt we needed to paint those rooms as well since we have never been fans of the colors they were. So Ryan spent the last few weeks clearing one room (the boys new room) and yesterday my parents came up and Ryan and my dad painted that room. Today they will clear and paint the other room. And then hopefully tomorrow we will be able to put our house back together. So we have had some pretty hectic days.

As for the adjustment to Eli it's been interesting. Since our house is not put together we have no real routine or place to put him yet. But hopefully soon. This next week will also be interesting as he will have some sort of doctors appointment every day. I figure it's my weening off of hospitals for me. I still have to go to the hospital, but at least I don't have to spend the whole day there. Then his appointments will taper off from there.

Eli seems to be doing well at home though. He eats, sleeps and poops like all other tiny babies! And boy can that little one poop! Way more than we ever had to deal with Caleb (but those of you who know Caleb, know he's not normal in that area!). We busted out our baby bathtub this morning and gave him a real bath. We have to be careful of his incision. But it's also important to keep that area clean. But he looks so much better now that he had a bath (he hadn't had a real one yet, so he was a bit crusty, and had tape residue all over him).

Caleb has been an AWESOME big brother! He loves Eli so much. Yesterday he got up and came out to the living room he looked at me with a blank stare, looked at Ryan with a blank stare, then looked at Eli and a HUGE smile came over his face. He went over to him and patted his head with his big "baby sigh" he does. He has also started calling him E and sweetie like I do. He's so funny. Every time Eli makes a noise Caleb rushes to him and exclaims "Eli's talking to me!!!" Then he just sits there next to him and holds his hand. It's so cute. We have some awesome pictures and I will try to have Ryan post them tonight when he's done painting.

Also, I know a lot of you have wanted to know what you could do to help us out. Bringing us meals would be a great thing, especially while we get adjusted to a regular schedule (and finish re-doing our house). We have a meal schedule through our church, but if anyone else would like to bring us food at all, we wouldn't object!!! So if you are interested e-mail either me or Ryan and we can schedule something, or give you the address to the website for you to sign up on.

Well, I am off to take a shower since it appears Eli is going to sleep a little longer, and Caleb is playing basketball! So I am free for a few minutes!