Our little family is complete

I am so happy to announce that Owen came home last night. I think the nurses, while obviously glad to see him go home, were a little sad to be losing the chance to see him every couple of days - he really was a favorite there.

Owen slept through the ride home, which is no surprise, I guess. I'm proud to say that I do not have the same problem with a baby in a car seat as I do with a cat in a cat carrier (cat in a box becomes just a box, right? And you can be a klutz and smack it in to walls and stuff?).We all hung out on the couch and watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (it's officially fall...we're not THAT early on it), then settled in for our first night with an infant. Somehow exhaustion overcame my oh-my-god-he's-not-going-to-make-it-through-the-night panic and I did actually get a few hours of sleep last night, between multiple meals and diaper changes. Holy crap, my parents had warned me that babies make a lot of noise (even in their sleep), and they weren't kidding! Owen is constantly making little chatty noises. But, thankfully, he doesn't seem to be as bothered by the lack of light and constant noise as most NICU babies are - in fact, he appears to be one darned content kid.

Madison and Paul had mixed reactions. Paul was only mildly interested, then pretty much was like, "yeah it's a baby, life goes on." I think Madison believes we got a new hairless noisy cat. And, she was pretty upset that the bassinet is not hers, because everything in the house is hers. Including the new hairless noisy cat.