We’re On Our Way Home
Posted on 08. May, 2010 by Heather in News | 2 Comments
It’s been a busy couple of weeks.
Throughout the last fourteen days, Eliana has:
- moved across the hall from NICU1 to NICU2 (definitely a less “critical” and certainly more calm environment),
- learned her Dad’s food=good philosophy (and, subsequently, gained some much-needed weight),
- passed a hearing test,
- passed a carseat test,
- spent her first night (semi-)alone with her parents in a (semi-)monitored environment
Now, the time has come.
Here within a few hours, we’ll be bringing our little Eliana home from Children’s Hospital… 59 days, countless worried nights and approximately 2.4 thousand fast-food meals* & car trips to Children’s Hospital later.
Heather and I have explored many thoughts and conveyed many emotions here on this blog over the last 9 months and we’ll certainly continue to do so as we raise our little one. That said (and we’ve said this before), we can’t even BEGIN to express how thankful we are for all of you. You’ve prayed with us/for us, consistently checked in on us, and shown us a tremendous amount of love and support.
Over the next two weeks, we’ll slowly begin the next chapter of our lives and we’re ecstatic to do so. During this time, we’ll be updating the site and be posting photos to Picasa/Facebook/Flickr – so be sure to check back.
God bless you all.
Oh, and our little one officially turns 60 days old (at 5:36p) on this, her first day at home… and her first morning at home coincidentally falls on Heather’s first Mother’s Day.
*Okay, 2.4K may be an exaggeration but we’ve literally had very (very) little time to prepare some meals. For those of you who prepped some homemade food goodness for us, we simply can’t thank you enough.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA i can’t believe it i can’t believe it i can’t believe it!!
What I can’t believe is that I haven’t been able to see or hold the little angel for a week now. I haven’t been a happy camper but I will be as soon as I lay my eyes on her beautiful face.