This is my life...

Can you believe this? Seriously.

For those of you who haven't heard, Eleanor came into our lives at 10:23 PM on Sunday, Dec 2. She weighed 6 lb 14 oz, and measured at 19 3/4 in. Her beauty is absolutely unspeakable. Nikki and I are pretty overwhelmed at this point. Overwhelmed with joy, exhaustion, laughter, stress, sleeplessness, gratitude, wonder, humility, questions, love for our daughter, and love from our friends and family.

Nikki's recovery from the c-section is going great. We went to get the staples out of the incision on Friday morning, and the doctor said that Nikki is moving around so well that he would have thought her c-section was 2 or 3 weeks ago if he didn't know her. Breastfeeding is also coming along really well. After a few miserable and stressfull attempts in the hospital, things are finally coming along well. Nikki's milk came in on Wednesday night, and our little Eleanor is finally getting enough fluids (for awhile, we thought she'd have to go on an IV drip of fluids due to dehydration, but we're out of that mess now that she's feeding so much better).

Thanks to all of you precious friends who want to talk to us, but have kept yourselves from calling every day. I know it has been hard for some of you, and Nikki will begin calling all of her beloved friends soon, I promise. For now, she has enough to stress about without me asking her to return phone calls from friends. We'll keep trying to post updates on this blog, and we're also going to be posting more pictures on Nikki's smugmug photo site, at http://www.nikki-rhodes.smugmug.com/ We've already posted a few photos to that site, so I'm not going to post many here. Check out that link to see more of our precious little bean. (We started calling her bean after seeing her swaddled up so tight in her blanket.)

Our mammaries overfloweth. (actually, Nikki's mammaries overfloweth. No flow is occuring with my mammaries)