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Time is flying by! It doesn’t feel like it’s been 10 days, but we’ve enjoyed every minute of it. Rowan is doing very well, and is trying all sorts of new things. She is even surprising us with 4-6 hour streches of sweet slumber at night!

Rowan has been adored many times over by her big brother…

No thumb sucker here. Rowan found binkie love, and is quite fond of the soothie style.

She had her first bath, which she was NOT a fan of!

She even tried to start a fight. Look at that grip!

Finally she decided that being clean ain’t so bad.

We attempted a photoshoot, and she was ready to pose.

Photoshoots are hard work. Fortunately, a sleeping baby is a fantastic subject!

Caught some sweet sleepy smiles. A preview of what’s to come?

She got lots of love from big sister Brinley. Two princesses, hopefully not from the same diva pod.

Awesome Aunt Kristy flew in to help us out for a week. Thanks Kristy!

We went on our first outing to Target. A girl’s gotta get her shop on early right?

 And we tried our luck with another photoshoot…

Here Rowan is showing off her birthmark, one of many stork bites, and battle wounds from Biliruben tests.

That’s enough! Time for another nap!

Drew & Brinley have had a very exciting couple of weeks besides getting a new baby sister. At the beginning of last week Amy was walking marathon distances to bring on labor (and it worked!) but her feet were taking a lot of abuse. So to enable more walking Grandma J would give Amy a nice relaxing foot rub.  Drew and Brinley were not about to be left out of something cool like that! They immediately insisted Grandma J give them a “rubber feet” as well, which they enjoyed almost nightly till Grandma J went home. 

A couple days after we brought Rowan home, Drew asked if he could charge his baby in the “baby charger.” If you think about it, it makes perfect sense.  We feed her, change her, love on her, and put her in the bouncer for a nap. Then she wakes up and the cycle repeats. She must be recharging her batteries, right? Thanks Drew for calling it like it is!

And, a bonus picture of Drew, er, Peter Pan. Apparently lactating is one of Peter Pan’s many superpowers…hmmmm. He doesn’t look to thrilled to have this moment captured, does he?

Grandpa & Grandpa F rode over to our house on Saturday to see Rowan. Drew & Brinley were much more interested in checking out their motorcycles. They wanted to push all the buttons and flip all the switches, just like they like to do in the car when we’re not looking…  

Looks like a dogpile on Grandpa and tickle his feet. AAAAAAAA!

Grandma J stayed with us last week, but sadly had to return home to go do something she called “work.” Hmm, never heard of it. We can’t thank her enough for all the help she was last week. Our pantry and fridge are stuffed to the gills!