what a difference a week makes...

I am just pinching myself realizing all the millions of changes we have been through exactly this time, just one week ago.  Before Ruthie came, minutes took hours and now they are quite quick.  Here are some of the other changes as well.

• We actually worked out in this beautiful gym here...now we just look down at it from our room. :)
• We are finally on this time zone...just in time to switch again.
• Ruthie no longer cries "mama mao" when she's upset.  
• Ruthie clings to us when we're out...but not bc she's scared, but bc she loves us.
• Going out is no big deal: it was horrifying when we didn't know her yet.
• Ruthie actually rode in a stroller today, and loved it!!  There is no way we could have done that a few days ago.
• This week, Ruthie no longer has diarrhea, fever, an ear infection, no more teething, and her yeast infection is clearing up too.  wade and i say that she'll think these new parents are full of medicine...she'll probably grieve when we're all done with antibiotics. :)
• I miss my boys even more today than i did a week ago...we're so close to seeing them, i can almost smell them...
• I am getting somewhat used to the stares...you'd think having red hair around her makes you as famous as Justin Beiber.  (i don't even know if i spelled his name right. :) )
• Ruthie laughs now.
• She is almost up for walking...she stood for the first time yesterday for a whole 5 minutes...her little chicken legs were shaking the whole time. (She CAN walk and run, she just won't yet. haha  I'm sure she thinks if she lets us know she is capable that we won't carry her cute little 16 pound body around anymore....Ruthie, you don't know your mama!  I still carry your brothers!)
• She doesn't cry when she wakes up anymore.
• She still cries in the bath.
• wade has become an expert tea partier.  

Can't wait to be home!!!!!!