Picture from the homeward trip

We all left the hospital on Thursday afternoon, as evidenced by the following photos (our nurse was Paige, who really knew her stuff):

Paige handing Jude over to Kara:

Kara and Greg with Jude ready to leave the hospital: Little Jude in the car, ready to go:On the way home Jude got to experience his first stop-start-stop car ride in Chicago rush hour traffic. Fortunately he took quite readily to the car seat and sleep soundly the entire way.

I really really want to use the car seat as simply a car seat (rather than all-purpose baby carrier or occasional bassinet) on principle. However, I can perfectly well understand why many people default to the car seat as an all-purpose baby device. The kid just curls up and sleeps.

There are no pictures of us arriving right at home due to the craziness of the dog. An upcoming post will detail that situation.