Are you ready for more pictures???

Well, we're back from the hospital ( i stayed the full 48 hours + 4 extra hours--and LOVED every minute of it!!) and now we're just getting settled into "real" life. It doesn't feel "real" yet, but it is already pretty crazy around here. Grace and Abby are pretty good at keeping each other entertained, and Reid, as always, is SuperDad--dunno how i'd do this without him!!!!

I really had a hard time choosing which pictures to post...as you're about to find out :) This is, by far, the best way for my parents to see pics of their granddaughter(s), so just bear with me...

Grace absolutely loves Eliza. Abby doesn't care so much, but Grace loves to hold her, wants to know where she is, if she's eaten--it's pretty sweet

I loved nothing more than the visits I got from my girls at the hospital. The nurses always got a kick out of it, too. And, although my room was at the end of a long hallway, i really could hear them the moment they got off the elevator. Reid made that trip from our house to the
hospital and back 10 times (5 round trips) so that the girls could see me and Eliza. With all the DNC road blocks, it tooks him almost 90 minutes once!! Thanks, hon--it was worth it every time...at least for me :)!!!

Our not-so-little family of FIVE!!!!!
Here the girls are watching their movie while Reid and I catch up and ogle over our little Eliza.
Grace and Abby getting a better look at their sister

I just love this picture--anyone who uses this kind of binki can appreciate how MASSIVE it looks when it's in a newborn's mouth
Abby was refusing to do anything but pout for this picture (she normally says "cheese"
with a HUGE grin) and you can see that Reid's really trying to convince her to smile--i LOVE it!

We had little gifts for Grace and Abby from Eliza (I got that idea from my friend, Lindsay, and LOVED it!) Grace got some snow white shoes and the movie Enchanted, and Abby got a baby doll. They were both pretty excited.
Here they are dancing around to "How Does She Know" from Enchanted. This picture does not even begin to capture how sweet this moment was for me. It was this moment when i kinda realized that we were gonna be okay, and that these two girls have each other, and how much that's gonna save me in those moments when I just can't get to them right away.
Reid and Abby watching the Olympics with Eliza
Me saying goodbye to my girls so i could get ONE more good night's rest before Eliza was all mine!!!!
I can't get over how little Eliza looks in this carseat! And of course, it's blue. I never bought things like this in pink cause i was sure we'd have a boy someday and i didn't want to be stuck with pink everything....
oh, the irony...
Here I am in my wheelchair, getting kicked out of the hospital. I locked the door and turned of all the lights, but they still found me and made me leave!! Okay, i really was a little anxious to get back home, but at the same time, i knew there was no going back!!!
My sweet neighbor and another friend, both on their own, decorated our house the morning we got back. It was so fun to come home to all these balloons and signs!!
Abby and Eliza
Grace and Eliza
Reid and Eliza
Emily and Eliza

And now for today's photo shoot. A good friend of mine let me borrow her camera, and some of these turned out pretty cute, if i do say so myself...which i just did...