1 Week Old - Isn't She Lovely?

Monday was McClellan's 1 week birthday-how did 7 days pass by so quickly?



The past week has been a whirlwind-checking into the hospital on Sunday, May 2 for an induction turns csection equals McClellan's birth, FINALLY getting out of the hospital on Friday, May 7th and then before we knew it-May 10th was here and McClellan was a week old already!



Our day was spent going to a Dr's apt-based on the fact that she had lost 8% of her body weight by the time we checked out of the hospital we had to go to the Dr to check and see how we were doing weight wise. The Dr's weren't all that surprised by the weight loss given her weight at birth, 9 lb 6.6 oz, and the fact that I was breastfeeding...but they wanted to check in on her and make sure that we were making some progress. We're happy to report that McClellan is gaining weight back and apparently all the breastfeeding we're doing is working!!



After our Dr's apt we headed out to JCPenney's to find some warmer clothes for our little pumpkin-Colorado is getting some bizarre winter weather right and we have nothing for her to wear! Ok, I'll be honest, it was 10% that excuse and 90% wanting to go shop for my little girl! We found some great deals and got 4 outfits for $9 with the sales and coupons we had! Whee!!



Our last stop was Sprouts for some much needed grocery shopping-we hadn't been in over a week and had NO produce at all in the house. As you can see, once we had McClellan in the cart there really wasn't much room for the food! McClellan found grocery shopping a total bore and slept the entire time.



Those of you that know me know that my husband is the best...and from time to time pulls off some pretty special little surprises.



McClellan and I were upstairs finishing up one of our feeding sessions while Matt was downstairs doing what I thought was cleaning. He called up and said he had something to show me when we were done and asked me to come downstairs. McClellan and I finished up and headed down to meet Daddy...he had us go to the front room and then "pushed play" on the stereo. Matt had set the stereo up to play "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder-we held McClellan and danced, not saying a word, just staring at her and crying.



She is lovely...and He is amazing...and I am truly blessed.