Schroeder Family Blog p.2: The Latest

Hannah (or Hannah-Bo as we call her) is snoozing this morning, so I thought I'd take a minute to post. Things here are going very well...a lot less chaotic than I expected. The only big worry right now is Hannah's jaundice. Although her numbers are not high enough to be serious, they are not coming down the way they should. She's had to go in 3 times to get blood drawn from her little heel (which now looks like a pincushion) and she's only gone from 15 to 14-and she should be between 0 and 2! They haven't suggested putting her under the lamps yet...they just want me to feed her as often as I can to help flush the jaundice out. Matt and I have also been trying to get her outside into the sunshine..so hopefully this will all be over with soon. Other than the jaundice she is doing well. She sleeps at night for 2 to 3 hour stretches and during the day she is getting more and more awake-I just love seeing her little eyes when they are open! She likes to sleep either in her Moses basket or at night, with me in the bed. At this point I don't mind having her there...it's so nice to wake up and have this tiny thing nestled up next to you. I just love having a baby in the house again-and Hannah is especially sweet.
Caitlin and Matthew are just the best big brother and sister. Matthew loves Hannah, and whenever he sees her he says "oooooooo Hannah!!" in the sweetest voice. He also has decided that it is his responsibility to inform me whenever she 1. cries, 2. has a smelly diaper, and 3. opens her eyes. He's like a little monitor. Caitlin loves to do "Hannah things"...help me change her, and give her wipey baths. They are both so helpful, and pretty understanding about the attention she needs-mostly I think because they like to play together so much. Now I'm not saying they have been perfect..>I've definitely noticed some behavior changes in them-Matthew has gotten pretty hyper lately-and acts out for attention..either by being really bad, or just extra silly. And Caitlin has decided that she prefers to do what she wants to do more than what I want her to do. So when I tell her to do something, there's about a 50-50 chance that she's going to do something else instead. But we're working on all these things, and overall I'm very proud of how they are handling having a new baby around.
They both still love preschool, and thanks to Daddy and Nana they haven't missed all that much since Hannah was born. Next week is conference week for them, so I'll have progress reports on both of them after that.
Next week is also our closing on the new house-I'm still in shock that we are actually about to move-we've been planning this for so long! And it is going to be so amazing to be 3 minutes from preschool, 2 minutes from the library, and only 25 minutes from Matt's job. It's going to be great!! Especially being able to save all that money on gas!

Thats about all my news...Here are the latest pictures:

Brand new baby picture-when Hannah was first born the nurse commented that she had "more chins than a chinese phonebook!" Not all that flattering but you can kinda see what she's talking about here....