I'm Going Home

Finally, the day has arrived that Garrett will come home with us!! Both Rachel and I are excited and ready to bring him home. On this glorious day we decided to take our first family photo. We attempted it three times and our first attempt ended up being the best.

Before we could leave Garrett had to have two more firsts.

The first one was that he had to receive his newborn screening test. The nurse wrapped his little foot in two warming pads and then wrapped a warm diaper around that to encourage blood flow to his foot to draw blood. 

The last item of business was that Garrett had to pass a car seat test. We brought the car seat Tori came home in for this occasion. However, Garrett failed his car seat test. The nurses informed us that the regulations have recently changed and that they were no longer allowed to wrap towels around a smaller infant to secure them in a car seat. Rachel informed me of this as I was leaving our house to go to the hospital. I then asked for help amongst our friends in the Ward and our friends so graciously donated their beautiful car seat to allow us to pass the car seat test.

Here is our little man in his car seat after arriving home.

(Thanks so much to the Kenney Family and Melton Family for making this possible!!!) 

Here is our beautiful baby boy soundly asleep in his bassinet at home!!!