Mary Day's Firsts: #1

Mary Day is now five days old and the past couple days have been made up of a lot of "firsts."

Yesterday she came home from the hospital, and here are some of the things she experienced for the first time:

• her first rain
• her first ride in a car
• her first trip across a bridge (the St. Johns)
• her first day home
• her first night home

Today, she added a few more things to the list:

• her first crowd (a lot of visitors today)
• her first "tummy time" (a chance to squirm on her belly for exercise)
• her first Halloween and Halloween costume (ladybug)

At five days old, she'll never remember any of this, and she really only has a few hours of bright-eyed lucidity per day right now. But it all counts. Her brain is soaking every waking moment in and then remixing them all in dreams, and her body is doing its job of eating, resting, and growing. Getting to spend every moment with her these first few days, it's like watching time-lapse photography. She seems to be changing by the hour.