Our bunny is home and loving somethings - Part Deux

Hey guys, things have been going well, or as well as things can go for a newborn and her parents. We are still so happy to have Maebry home. She has been with us for over a month and we still marvel and stare at her daily.

However, some not so fun things have been happening. We have been trying to figure why she has gas so bad and painful sometimes that it wakes her up. We deduced it is was because of her formula mixture of NeoSure and breast milk. I felt bad for both Mae and her daddy because she was trying to swallow the milk that she wanted so badly but all the while her little tummy was having trouble breaking down the enzymes in the formula. The catch-22 is she needs the formula for the extra calories and calcuim due to her being a premie. And it is hard on poor Daddy because he was the one giving Mae these bottles and the whole process was bringing her pain. Dusty was being the great Daddy that he by doing this so his sleepy wife could get some rest...boy don't we all know and love this process.

Then we had to figure out how to help her with her bouts with acid reflux...good times to getting an infant to fully swallow a fizzy, cold and watery version of a pill. So Mylicon and Prilosec have become our new best friends and have been given with fervor and high frequency so our little one has been able to eat and sleep much better.

But we know we need to apologize because we really do have good intentions with regards to the blog. We take pictures and use our flip-video but we then forget or show a lack of dedication to posting these lovelies to our said blog.

So without further adieu and anymore painful feedings. Here is Part Deux of more bunny pictures and her weekly visitors.

Here is Mae's Papaw Gary. He was sweet enough to let our little bunny sleep on his chest. We have quickly learned our little girl loves to sleep on our chest and the chest of others.

My sister, Cherie and her family came by the first week Maebry was home. My sister is holding her while part of the Carrillo clan (aka my niece, Brother-in-law and nephew) look on.

Here is Mae getting admired by Dusty's brother, Troy, and his family. Our niece Maddie and sister-in-law Vanessa gave us some great gifts for little Mae. She has her own set of beginner chop sticks...too CUTE! We were also given some other Japanese gifts that we translated by Maddie but now forgotten. Troy and his family have been living in Japan for almost a year. We were so excited they came back to Texas to visit our little cutie.

Another set of Kraatz's came to visit earlier in August. Dusty's other brother, Bert, and his boys, Kyle and Carson wanted to come and visit their new niece/cousin. We are glad they made the trip from Katy and were kind enough to give us their rocker. Thanks again Bert for the rocker...Mae loves it and it has been used quite frequently.

Grandmomma Kraatz also came by and was kind enough to do a feeding for Dusty and me. Little Mae just loves her Grandmomma and how sweet is it that Cindy (aka Grandmomma) matches Mae's Boppy and burp clothe. We Kraatz's love to color coordinate.

And here is sweet Poppa Kraatz holding Miss Mae after her feeding. Don't they look so cute together. Grandparents have special powers of getting their grand-babies to eat and sleep contently.


Here come the Daddies and their sweet peas. Dusty is holding Mae in our borrowed sling and Matt is balancing Maddie with cute paci and bottle near by. That same night Matt, Savannah and their sweet daughter, Madison came by for a visit and bought us Chili's. A great thanks to the Tuckers for the visit and the food. And thank you Chili's for your boneless Buffalo Wings with Ranch. And Dusty says thanks because he was super happy to have his Margarita Grilled Chicken.