I think it's a good time to blog again.  I'm pretty sure that everyone in the world knows by now that we have welcomed our new baby girl into the world!  We are really blessed by the arrival of "G-Dub" and could not be more proud yet humbled at the same time.  It is apparent to us already that having a baby you brings out this incredible amount and level of love for another human being that is like no other thing we've experienced in our lives.  And we are reminded about how God loves us so much more than we love our little girl.  What a great reminder and personal display of God's deep love for us as His children.  We are blessed and humbled.

We have been somewhat in "survivor mode" over the past couple of weeks.  There's a lot to adjust to becoming a parent I am quickly learning, although I would say Jan has had the biggest adjustment.  Think about what she has been through over the past 9 plus months:  pregnancy, leaving her job, delivery, recovery, feeding, staying at home, sleeping in 2-3 hour increments every night!  Wow, that is an incredible amount of change to deal with.  Yet, she rarely complains.  I'm pretty sure women are tougher than men...no, I'm now convinced they are when it comes to this kind of stuff.  If I had to go through all of that as a man, I'm not sure what I would have done!  So, I'm proud of my wife.

The first couple of weeks have been good.  G-Dub is really a sweet girl and is very alert when she's awake and very asleep when she's asleep.  The only middle ground that she goes back and forth on is the feeding part, which has proven to be a lot more challenging than we had expected.  She just can't make up her mind whether she's hungry or tired or both. 

I went back to work about a week after she was born, thanks to my mother-in-law staying with us.  That was a huge blessing the first week, and now my mother is poised to take over the support duties.  It's been good for me to go back into work and have some normalcy, but I sure do miss that little girl during the day!  In a sense it makes me focus more at work so that when I get home I can "turn it off" and focus on my girls. 

We're so glad she's finally here!