Kira's visitors

Since our camera broke a couple of days ago, I have been going crazy without the chance to take pictures of her, missing all these great "photo opps." So anyone that comes over to visit and see Kira, I ask them to send me their pictures...Kira had some visitors Monday night...Tom's aunt and uncle came by to see her. They also brought me all this great food that will last me for the rest of the week and was incredibly kind of them. Tuesday, Tom's mom and cousin (who lives in New York about 2 hours away) came to see her. These pictures are from that night. Tom, who has been working non-stop lately, happened to come in when they were there and wanted to hold her. He is so good with her, he wants to hold her as soon as he walks in the door explaining, "you get to hold her all day, I want to hold her!"

It is neat to watch her grow and change every day, she is becoming more and more aware of her surroundings and is awake for longer periods...
Tom's cousin holding her....
The family!

Yesterday, I went to the doctor to have them check on my hemoglobin levels. The good news is, I have lost 24 pounds so I have 7 pounds to go and my hemoglobin levels are back up to 11 which is still slightly low but much better than the 6.6 level I was at when I was discharged from the hospital.

Besides taking care of her, I have been reading "Polar Dream" the story of the first woman to travel solo to the North Pole. I have also been cleaning...I finally got around to dusting the top of the cabinets in the kitchen, which hadn't been done since we moved in 4 years ago. It was very satisfying to wipe up all that dust even though no one can see it, I knew it was there and needed to be done. As mom can attest, my least favorite cleaning job is dusting so it was pretty nice to feel satisfied in my work, even dusting.