Bombarded with Love

Can one be bombarded with love? If so, that is us. Marissa has been with us for 2 weeks now and we have been overwhelmed with love from family and friends.

Mommy has not done a good job taking pictures of everyone who has come by the house to visit, but it has been so much fun to see everyone.

And the food that has been brought has been amazing (lasagna, pizza, roast, stir fry, chicken Florentine, enchiladas and chocolate desserts to die for). We are so thankful for everyone in our lives and Mommy has spent so much time lately just thanking God for all the blessings in our life!

So thanks to Maya and the girls, Brittney, the Rowells, Rachel, the Oberts, Lori, Lauren, Sarah, Sheila, Gabbby, Cathy, Amanda, Uncle Mose, April, Rebekah, the Yancys, the Alexanders, Debra, Lindsay, Jenn, the Saldivars, Cindy, and anyone else I forgot....you have truly blessed us!

Silly Naterbug

Buzz Lightyear was what Baby Rissa gave her big brother when he first came to visit her in the hospital....he is almost as big as she is!

Naked Nate....yes, it is a tradition at the Yancy household for Nate to scream downstairs after bathtime "Come see Naked Nate", then he runs around in his hooded towel until Daddy gets upstairs. He loves it!

Nate playing at the Little Gym at his friend, Christian's, 2nd birthday party.

And Gigi left...

We were so blessed to have my mom come down for three weeks (the doc told me Marissa would probably come early since Nate did - boy was she wrong!). I hope and pray that Marissa and I will have as good a relationship as my mom and I have. No matter how many times I told myself I was not going to cry when mom left...I cried. I cried when I was getting in the car to drive her to the airport! I cried at the airport! I cried on the way home from the airport....

We miss Gigi already...

And now it's just us women folk holding down the fort!

Come back soon Gigi...and thanks so much for all your help!

Nate's Singing Debut

Nate's daycare had an end of the year program where his class sang If You are Happy and You Know It and This Little Light of Mine. For some reason I cannot download the Flip Video file (anyone have pointers, send them my way) so you will have to settle for still photography....

He may need a little work on his body language during If You are Happy And You Know It

But he sure did let his little light shine!

5 Days Old and Happy!

Mommy's new favorite picture of Marissa, I think it speaks for itself.

1st Bath

Marissa's first bath....as you can see, it was not her favorite activity thus far in life.

1st Doctor's Appointment

I love the hilarious things in life. When the mundane turns comical.....Marissa's first doctors appointment was one of those times.

It began in the usual way with the proud parents taking their little treasure on her first outing.

Her weight dropped a little, but was doing great - nothing abnormal here. She is now 19 and 1/4 inches long.

And we waited for the doctor to show up. Our regular pediatrician is out of town so we saw a business partner (who by the way is a very attractive man....I may have to change pediatricians soon!!!).

As we waited, Daddy changed her diaper not one, not two, but three times. Every time he wiped it was like he activated the system. By diaper #1 the dreamy doctor arrived and witnessed the internal pluming working well. He checked her out and said she was fine, then swaddled her up and handed her back to Daddy since Mommy was doing paperwork and stated she was full again. Daddy then changed diaper #4, which was a little fuller...and she spilled over on her outfit (yes, by this time I am cracking up and Ted is frusturated). So I begin changing her outfit only to have her then spill over onto the paper covering the table. We get her changed in to her second outfit and 5th diaper, leaving a trail of dark green down the table (actually we were kind enough to rip off the paper and throw it away) ....and we head for the hills....I am still laughing, Ted is still not!

And thus her new nickname, Princess Poops-a-lot. She will hate us for that when she is older!