Introductions

My brother Todd and his wife April brought Ava to visit this weekend. We had a house full of babies!! It's amazing how much time taking care of them involves. We pretty much sat and held babies all weekend. Sorry Todd and April, we used to be much more fun!! Ava is only about 2 months older than Sidney, but she is already laughing and "talking". Too cute.


This picture pretty much sums up our lives right now. We love it, but the shirt says it all!

Isn't she precious!

Playtime

Sidney had some play time yesterday. She was wide awake for a few hours at a time. Up until then, she pretty much slept all day, so it was fun to see her look around for a while.


Notice all the toys behind her. Linlee and Conner brought these for her to play with. They were having so much fun and really thought they were helping. They don't realize she is too little...cute!



My 2 precious older children. I have missed playing and reading to them like I used to. We are still working on finding balance, but I treasure these few moments that we do find.

A Day in the Life

It's amazing how little time I have to do things now! Sorry for the lack of updates. Sidney had her 2 week check and is back up to 5 lb 12 oz. She is doing great! Sleeping much better! Linlee and Conner are a great help (well at least one of them is and the other tries to be....) Here are just a few pics. I will try to get more as I can.

No more pictures, please...

This was right before I decided to try to cut her fingernails. I clipped the end of her thumb and we both cried. As if she hasn't been through enough right?

Linlee has a cold, so she is wearing a mask around Sidney right now. Here is Nana with 3 of 4 grandchildren...

Welcome Home Sidney :)

We are home and very happy! She broke us in right from the start by staying up from 3:00-6:00 last night. I wonder if the NICU would take them back occasionally so the parents can sleep? I mean, the nurses have to be there anyway right??? :) I wouldn't dare!!!

Here are some pictures from yesterday's events.


"Wait, is there 24 hour nursing service where we are going? I may want to rethink this going home thing."


"I think this place agrees with me."


Linlee and Conner have been great so far. They just love their sister.

This is how she slept in the hospital. Oh Well...

Finally!

Well Sidney is HOME!!!! I will post pics later but she came home with us around 1:00. We are more than thrilled. Thanks for all the prayers!

New update

Well not much has changed in the last few days. Sidney is still doing great. Dad go to hold her Thursday night and loved every minute. She was a lttle lazy at feeding for a while but has now worked up to 65cc (or at least she did that for me last night)!!! she had lost down to 5lb 6oz and the nurse said that she couldn't go home until she was on the gaining weight program. We still have a little work to do it seems based on that. No one has given me a go home day, but I am guessing it won't be this weekend unless she gains some weight. We can wait (but not too long...)

Get ready for the pictures!!!

We had an awesome visit at lunch today! They took out the IV line from her belly button while we were there and.......I got to HOLD AND FEED HER IN A CHAIR!!!! She also got to put on clothes for the 1st time! this is the best day ever!! She is moving to an open crib this afternoon and if she gets up to 60 cc (she is at 40cc) tonight and eats it for 24 hours, we could be looking at bringing her home Sat or Sun!!! God is GOOD!! Ben let Nana go with me for this visit since she was leaving today so he missed all the excitement, but was happy to hear that he can bite some toes tonight.:) Enjoy the pics!