Life is calming down...

Yesterday, I did the dishes! Well to be honest, I did most of the dishes... some of them are still sitting in the sink, waiting for me to finish. But still, I have never been so proud of myself for doing such a meaningless household chore! I just haven't been able to accomplish anything since Naomi was born. Our apartment is a complete DISASTER. Half of the things that we dumped on the living room floor the night we came home from the hospital are still sitting there. Every day, I have sat in our living room and stared at everything that I should clean and put away, but I have just been too tired and too sore to do it.

There have been a lot of simple little things that I didn't realize were going to be so difficult for me after having a baby. On our third morning home, when we were getting ready to take Naomi to the hospital for her daily foot-prick to check her jaundice level, I put my shoes on all by myself. I was so proud, I called Jacob over to show him! That may seem silly to you, but on the two previous days, Jacob had to help me get my shoes on because I hurt too bad and couldn't bend over to put them on. In the hospital, I was so excited when I could finally roll over in bed without Jacob's help because my epidural had finally worn off enough that I could move on my own. Even walking was harder than I expected. I was so sore that I had to take tiny little steps and walk reeeeally slowly. It took me ten times as long as it should have to walk across the parking lot when we came home from the hospital. So I celebrated the day that I woke up and could walk normally again.

Now that it's been almost 2 weeks (she'll be two weeks old on Monday--I can't believe it!), I am feeling pretty good! We're hopefully done with fevers and infections, and Naomi is hopefully done with jaundice problems... Jacob and I are still sleep deprived, of course, but we're not expecting that to change anytime soon... or ever. :)

Anyway, here are a few more pictures of our baby girl!