Update

Hello all! We are still alive! It has been quite the transition into parenthood! I never expected to spend so much time doing so little. Take today for instance. For those of you who are already parents this will look familiar. For those of you who are not yet parents, be forewarned! We were up at 1:00, 3:30 and 6:00 feeding Kaia. After her 6:00 feeding she didn't want to go back to sleep so I stayed up with her until 7:30. She woke up at 8:30 to eat again and then Josh entertained her until she went back to sleep. In the meantime I made breakfast and then suddenly I looked at the clock and it was 11:30. Time to eat. 2:00- time to eat. I fed her again and then tried to take a nap while she slept, but couldn't fall asleep. Time to eat again at 4:00. Some friends came to visit at 5:30 and then she was hungry again at 6:15 and 8:00. She usually gets fussy at night so she didn't go to sleep until 9. Now I'm about to go wake her up to feed her again! And then we'll try to sleep for a few hours and start the cycle all over again! I feel like all I do all day is provide food and change diapers! These are the most important jobs because they are essential to our daughter's well-being, but they don't leave much time for anything else! I think this has been the biggest surprise to me about becoming a parent.

We've enjoyed having a few visitors in the past couple weeks. Since we're not able to get out much yet it's been very refreshing to have friends come to us! We were especially happy that Grandma and Grandpa Great (Grandma and Grandpa Keller) were able to visit Kaia last week! They came up for Kaitlyn's birthday and stayed a couple days. This was the first distance Grandma had traveled since her illness. Grandma did great and didn't need too much recovery time after returning home! What a blessing! We were also very thankful to have Josh's mom, Julie, help us out for the first week and a half. She ran our errands for us and taught us how to do a lot and we really appreciated having her here! She definitely made us feel more confident now that we're doing everything on our own!

Our internet access has been a little erratic lately, so I've had some difficulty in posting new pictures. But, I promise that I'll get some new ones up soon. It's amazing to see that she changes every day!