McKinna is was officially one week old and boy has it been a busy one.  Not only did she meet her Mommy and Daddy, but came home to a new house, her own room, met her big sister Miss Cooper, lost the umbilical cord, had her first MD appointment, caught and got over conjunctivitis, and been on several car rides.  Wheww…no wonder she naps so much.

To celebrate, McKinna had her first “offical” bath last night.  What a milestone!!!!!  She acutally took it pretty well.  Erin and I were afraid that she would freak out being wet, but I think that the water was warm enough that she wasn’t too uncomfortable.  In addition, I think it stimulated her enough to wake up for awhile and just stare at Mommy and Daddy which was AWESOME.

We are at day 2 of being at home and so far so good.  We are still adjusting to the constant blur between day and night, night and day, but it is slowly getting better.  Finding the routine that works for mommy, daddy, and baby are KEY.  Erin and I are close to finding ours, however I have a feeling that once we get used to it, McKinna will throw a kink in it.

I have added a few more videos to the site and have about 10 more to go.  It is a slow process so please bear with me.  If you have any pictures please email them to me so that I can post them.

We would like to thank EVERYONE for their thoughts, prayers, blessings, general goodwill, food, wine, M & M’s, and laughter.  It has been a tremendous help to Erin and I.

This has to be the longest two weeks ever.  We have waited 9 months so one would think that waiting two more weeks wouldn’t be that big of deal, but Erin and I have never been so anxious in our lives.  Sometimes we will sit in McKinna’s room talking and try to answer the following:

Who is she going to look like?  Is she going to have hair?  Will she know my voice when she hears it for the first time?  What will her first word be?

It is the uncertainty of the future that I believe is so exciting.  What will the future hold for not only McKinna, but Erin and I as parents?

All we have to do now is wait.

Receiving and purchasing gifts for McKinna is always a fun little adventure.  Though the presents are for her opening them is 3/4’s of the fun.  However, having to return ANYTHING to Babys R Us or Target is a royal pain.  They have the worst return policies we have ever run into.  The latest misadventure came yesterday when Erin and I tried to return a duplicate gift back to Babys R Us (Wolfchase Location).   What should have been a 10 minute task turned into an hour of what exemplifies the lack of corporate efficiency in this country.

We went to the counter and explained the situation: duplicate gift that was purchased online and we didn’t have a gift receipt, but it was on our registry.  First, the lady couldn’t locate the item on our registry and then alluded to the possibility that we wouldn’t be able to return it.  After getting the manager involved he said that the product wasn’t in their inventory database at all even though it was purchased from their company.

Mind boggling.

Finally, after 35 minutes of haggling with four different employees who couldn’t find their way out of a paper bag, they were able to lookup some inventory number and locate our purchase in their system.  Unfortunately, they were going to give us $7 less than what was paid for online because they had marked it as a clearance item.  So we had to argue that point.

At long last we got everything straightened out and took our gift card to purchase the two items that we really wanted which are a M and a W wood letters.  Guess what??? They where sold out of both those letters.  Can you believe it?!

Erin is going back to the other location to see if they have her initials.

What a misadventure!!!!

Throughout my life I have had the privilege of having great wisdom past down to me and now I present these to my daughter.  The U.B. Rules:

1. Things end up how they start out.
2. A man convinced of his will is of the same opinion still.
3. Always live on 50% of your income.
4. Get ready to hurry up and wait.
5. Life is the ultimate teacher.
6. Always strive for an A and the worse you’ll get is a B.
7. Low-fat cheese doesn’t taste the same as regular cheese.
8. Nothing in extremes is good.
9. Choices are what makes life fun.
10. Always be young at heart.
11. If you play with snakes long enough you will get bit.
12. No matter how important or insignificant a person is in your life they will have an impact.
13. Sometimes you have to forget the budget and recover afterwards.

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