Alayna Paige was born 7*11*2006 at 505pm weighing 8 pounds 7 oz. She is so gorgeous. We are so in love with her. It is hard to believe she is ours and the hospital let us leave with her! She looks so much like her daddy and not much like me :(   I have suddenly become so aware of all the worlds issues- I was never one to watch the news. Now I am terrified about pollution, nuclear winter, WWWIII, the ever growing landfills, lack of gas, what if our food supply is gone. I guess I never thought about how much I wanted to protect her from  everything- now I am a worrywart. Odd what parenthood does to a person. My husband and I now refer to each other as Mommy and Daddy- no longer by our first names. We plan our whole day around when she is going to be hungry and where we will be when its time to feed her. When we leave the house (when we finally get the chance) we have arm fulls of baby products that we had to buy and SUV just so our dog could come places too. I am also surprised that I really really dont want to go back to work. I always that that being a stay at home mom would be boring and that people who did it were lazy (sorry to the SAHM's- but that was my perception) I never realized how much work went into caring for a baby and exactly how much laundry I would be doing. Now I just cant bear the thought of having to go back to work- but yet I struggle with the fact I went to school for four years and spent 65,000 to be a nurse and have completed a few masters level classes- how can I "just" stay home? At least I am only working two days a week, I think its a pretty good compromise.  But the most drastic change I have noticed is that I can function on two hours of sleep and just be thankful I got that! I can honestly say this is the most exciting time of my life and I cant wait to do it again!