Siena and Aria meet Jaron

After my weird reaction to the anesthesia, by late afternoon luckily everything had mostly worn off and I was semi back to normal.  They got me up and let me stand for a few minutes and so at least I was functioning.  After the girls naps, Jennifer brought the girls over to the hospital.  It was so fun to see their reaction to the baby.  I was worried they were going to be freaked out by me in the hospital bed and have no reaction to Jaron but I was wrong.  They were happy to see me and were very curious about the little baby.  They kept pointing to his nose, his mouth, etc.  I had 2 empty bottles that Jaron had taken and gave one to each of them and those were a total hit.  They were so excited and each left holding theirs.

They came to the hospital one other time.  This time they were a little more crazy running around the room but were still happy and fine.

Since being home the girls have been so good with Jaron.  They always want to help me feed him and hold the bottle, sometimes a little roughly but overall they give him kisses, and pet his hair a lot.  The 2nd night I was home they even asked to hold Jaron and they were so excited to hold him and give him kisses.  They had huge grins on their faces.

Both girls but more Siena then Aria have become obsessed with their dolls.  They dress them, feed them, burp them.  I got out a couple preemie outfits that were given to us and Jaron doesn't fit and they carry these around all day long putting them on, asking me to button them up only to immediately unbutton and undress them and repeat, over and over.  It's really cute actually.  One time Aria asked if Jaron could come play in their doll house.  I obliged for about 60 seconds but it was sure cute.

The hardest part to this adjustment for them so far is that I couldn't lift them or carry them for 2 weeks.  The first day was so hard I couldn't even leave the room without them going hysterical.  I had been gone for 4 days so I get that.  But they also don't understand when they ask me to pick them up why I can't.  I sit on the couch and tell them to climb up but it took them a couple days to figure that out.  Now for the most part they are ok and now that I can cuddle them if they climb up on the couch but that first day home was so hard for them and for me emotionally.  It's nice now that the 2 weeks is up and I'm pretty much back to normal.  Shane has been great doing all the lifting and helping me when they get to much for me.

Shane's mom has also been staying with us and stayed the whole time I was in the hospital.  She has been amazing and has done so much for us these last 2 weeks in taking charge of the girls, their schedule and I never had to worry about one thing regarding the girls while I was in the hospital.  My parents also came and got the girls a couple times and it was fun for them to get out of house and a nice relaxing day for me as well to take a nap and just focus on Jaron.