It's Officially Official!

My Christmas present... I LOVE IT!!! Brock was going to, and then he wasn't (or said he wasn't), then was going to get me an iPad instead, then decided to... and "hid" the ring inside his mom's iPad box - to make me think I was getting an iPad... that sneak! Of course I said yes! No dates set - not even rushing to set one. What a huge year for both of us! I love you Brock!

Sharing my Birthday

Kira's 3 weeks old today... and I'm 37... years, not weeks... :-) Here she is spending a little "tummy time", officially her first, on her Boppy. I had a nice day with her being calm and peaceful, and capping off the evening at Outback for dinner with her and Brock.

Biliblanket

So Kira was born with a couple problems... Firstly, because I was hyperthyroid throughout the pregnancy and on meds, she was born hypothyroid... which by her second blood test, had completely tipped the other end of the scale and ended up causing her to by hyperthyroid like me. The docs felt it was probably due to my hyperthyroidism - that her thyroid was initially supressed due to the meds being passed onto her from me... then jumping to the other end of the spectrum when those meds wore off and her thyroid kicked in to fight off the _____ that had passed to her through the placenta.

This resulted in the docs wanting me to not breastfeed, so that her thyroid could normalize... between that and her being super tired, she didn't get enough fluids passing through her during the first few days and she ended up slightly jaundiced.

So we got to put her on UV light treatment at home for a week or so, although during that week, we ended up at Providence Children's Hospital in El Paso for 3 days (more in another post)... Here she is wrapped up in her bili-blanket :