One More Night...

I am very excited to report that L*ily and I are scheduled to go home tomorrow! Her feedings have increased and she has become more consistent in the last few days. Then yesterday she took all of her feedings without her feeding tube! Here she is with an empty bottle - funny how excited that can make me! Just a few days ago, I wasn't sure if we would be able to leave by Tha*nksgiving and didn't know if we would be able to avoid a G-tube. I was actually going to post last night about the possibility that we might leave early next week, but frankly I just got too tired and went to bed instead. Now, we are praising God that not only have we avoided the G-tube but we are leaving earlier than anticipated. We thank you for your prayers and would ask that you continue to pray for L*ily.

For those of you in town, I will just warn you however that as much as I would love for you to meet her, we will need to be very careful about her exposure to colds, flu, etc, especially in our first month home. If L*ily gets so much as a cold in the next few weeks, we could end up back here in the hospital. So please bear with us as we are hypervigilant about her schedule, her eating, and her health. Meanwhile, we will continue to photograph her and share those with you. We also are very excited for Z*oe to meet L*ily and we need to give both Z and D*ave time to get to know L*ily and vice versa.

Please pray for L*ily to stay healthy (as well as D, Z, and I).

Pray for L*ily to continue to eat well and get stronger and bigger. She will get her weight checked often in the next few weeks and a drop in weight could land us back in the hospital too.

Pray for all of us as we adjust to one another and a new schedule.

Pray for Z as she adjusts to having mommy back home and now having to "share" mommy.

Thank you for your prayers! We will update again soon... from home!