Zachary meets Indiana

After 3 days of preparation and some pretravel planning, Helaina, Zachary, and I made it to Indiana Friday night without a single hiccup. My maternity leave ends on June 1 and there was the lingering possibility that Randy would be in Vancouver with the team for the next round of playoffs, so we decided now was a good time for the 3 of us to meet my family in Indiana. The Wings lost, and we had to leave Randy at home, but the kids sure have enjoyed all the visitors here!!!
Last night, I was able to break away for a few hours while my parents stayed with the kids. I got a few extra hours of sleep as my mom helped with the middle of the night feeding. Zachary will be 1 month old tomorrow. He is still waking every 3 hours at night to feed, but that is an improvement from a week ago when he would have a feeding frenzy in the wee hours of the early morning.
This picture of the 2 of them together speaks a thousand words...she's is full of energy, but oh so sweet and lovable!!! And Zach is a trooper...Helaina runs circles around him, and he just watches calmly, never fussing when her little hands are giving him giant size hugs!
We've had so many visitors in the past few days and are loving all the quality family time! This is a picture of Zach with his Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa McGinley.

We only wish the weather would be not so winter like! Such a disappointment to be spending all our days inside because of the 40 degree temperature and constant rain. Zach has already experienced what seems like all 4 seasons (snow, spring rain, tornadoes, and summer heat) in his 4 weeks with us...only in the midwest!