Dennie Kids: December 23, 2009

Highlights from today: (click here for pictures)

• Mom and Dad slept for over 10 hours last night and they woke up feeling like new people.  Campbell spent the night in the nursery and returned wearing a onesie that said "Who needs Santa when you have grandparents?"
• Our doctors gave Tara and Campbell good reports.  Dr. Martin said Campbell was beautiful and Dr. Phillips said he would tell the nurses that we were ready to "go home now."  And he must have because around 10:15 we were pulling away from Baptist.  After a stop at Sams for medicine (Tara and Campbell stayed in the car) we were walking Campbell in the front door at home.
• After lunch and putting some things up (Mom thought her house was straight and even commented to Dad about how nice it was to have a neat house....read on...) the Dennies came over to see Campbell and soon the Brocks brought the kids home
• Reagan and Anderson nearly knocked Mom down getting out of the van to get in the house and see Campbell-Reagan said she was so excited for this day
• Reagan and Anderson held her but Graham is a little afraid of her but he did want to take her bottle from her and then hold it for her (not so gently)
• Everyone had a nap-Campbell did wake up for a potty break and then a milk break (she is eating around 1 ounce every 3 hours and she definitely has the bathroom thing down now!)
• Reagan and Dad ran some errands in the rainy mess-Reagan was excited to hear that Campbell would still be home when she came back
• Anderson waking up to watch a movie.  Mom had sat Campbell in the kitchen and then she forgot and started talking to Anderson so he had to tell Mom to "shhh, baby sleeping"
• Graham woke up next and he sat with Mom to drink his milk but was pretty irate after she didn't give him any more milk
• Reagan, Mom and Anderson had Chinese for supper while Dad and Graham had pizza and then everyone played in the living room while Campbell slept.  Soon the excitement started in the house
• Anderson came and told Dad that his pants were wet-Dad checked the obvious place but that wasn't wet.  Anderson then told Dad from the carpet-we thought someone had spilled their water bottle but soon it was discovered that den was flooding
• While Mom helped Dad move the toys off of the carpet, Reagan sat and held baby Campbell.  Mom kept checking on her but she sat as still as she could holding the baby.  Campbell was wide awake the whole time and ate up the attention from her big sister
• Soon reinforcements were called-Robby and Grandpa dug outside while Grannymom worked with the shopvac (and Mom put her swollen feet up!) (The pictures you see were from early in the discovery process-it got much worse)
• Meanwhile, Graham was hysterical that he could not go in the den, Anderson just sat in the den and soaked up the excitement and Reagan babysat her sister
• The evening did have a highlight for Reagan and Anderson-they were able to open one of Dad's Christmas presents early-a fan!
• After the mess, Mom had to say so long to her straight house since the den had been destroyed-thankfully the den has a door so she can shut it and not worry about it at all (and at least it wasn't tomorrow night or Santa would have had to help out too)
• Graham went to bed during the excitement while Anderson and Reagan huddled together watching a movie-they were afraid of the thunder
• Soon they pulled a few more Santa pieces to catch up.  Reagan knew exactly that tomorrow would be Christmas eve and was so excited.  Anderson and Reagan are both wired and seem to be bouncing off of the walls now that they are in bed
• Campbell is hanging out downstairs with Mom and Dad is getting ready to get her pjs on and some milk in her tummy