As I sit here in our special hospital room looking over at little Noelle Grace, who a little earlier weighed in at 5 lbs 12 oz., I am amazed how blessed Trey and I are with not one but two beautiful little girls. The past 5 days has been crazy, filled with tears and laughter and sometimes just plain "stress", but first and foremost we thank the Lord for pulling us through it all and thank everyone who has been in prayer for our family!
We came to the hospital around 7:30pm on Feb 18th and by 6:30am Feb 19th we had a new addition to the family. The doctors, nurses, and all the staff at the hospital have gone above and beyond! We learned shortly after Noelle Grace was born that she was having respitory problems and would need to be immediatly admitted to the Neo Natal Intensive Care Unit. By the grace of God I happened to have delivered at one of the finest hospitals in the country for that type of care! How great is our God! And as the days progressed, what was thought to be fluid on her lungs from phenomia, turned out to be fluid from the birthing process which cleared up by Saturday afternoon. And Saturday evening they decided that she was improving enough to move her up to the Pediatric Ward where we could finally room in with her.
It was so hard last Thursday not being able to just hold and cuddle our newborn but we new she was in God's hands and now we are able to totally bond! Trey and Hannah have been bonding the past two nights (as Hannah can't stay up here, so Trey comes as early as he can with her and leaves right before her bedtime)...what an amazing husband and father!
And as of today, even with a little weight loss, the doctor's say she is doing great and looks fantastic! She was able to be taken off her IV at 5am this morning and they say should be able to go home with us tomorrow around noon time! So please be in prayer that we would continue to see God's hand in all of this! Again thank you for all your prayers! We love you all!
And as for Hannah Elizabeth, she already knows that when we say wave to your sister, she can find Noelle and wave her hand to her...It is the cutest thing! She is getting so big and we can't wait until they can both be running around becoming the best of friends!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Friday, December 26, 2008
Update of Hannah
Hannah is 9 and 1/2 months old and growing by the minute. She now eats all her meals with bits and peices in them and she's a pro at chewing! Yea Hannah! Also she knows how to turn off the lights, and if we turn them off she looks at us with her puppy dog look...it's so cute, she never lets us forget that she can do it (so that's her thing now). We've been trying this week to switch Hannah over from a bottle to a sippy cup and we were just going to switch the middle bottle out of the day for now, but it wasn't working. So, today we decided to go "Cold Turkey" and she is doing awesome! I think that's what it was supposed to take...we're blessed that Hannah can do so many things and we know it may be early for her to stop the bottle all together for most babies but Hannah loves her sippy cup. God's def. preparing us all for the new baby who will be here in a little over 2 months and it's such a blessing that Hannah is doing GREAT learning new stuff!
On another note: Hannah loves Curious George and so for Christmas we got her the cutest pj's...we took picks tonight before she went to bed! Enjoy!
On another note: Hannah loves Curious George and so for Christmas we got her the cutest pj's...we took picks tonight before she went to bed! Enjoy!
Blessings!
I just want to thank the Szala Family for a very fun evening last night. Trey, Hannah, and I went over to the Szala house around 5 yesterday to have Christmas Dinner after we had spent lots of family time together playing with our (well Hannah's) new toys and presents. It was us, the Szala's, Joanie, and Lori's sister's family and we had a blast. We not only had great food but great fellowship. We were sad that we weren't able to be around our families for Christmas and have Hannah enjoy all her grandparents and aunts and uncles for her first Christmas, but what a blessing it is to have the Szala family in our lives. God def. has blessed us with them and we do consider them our family!!!! I do have to say though that the team I wasn't on last night somehow I know cheated in the game of Taboo...just kidding! But to our family far away, we miss you so very much and can't wait to see some of you when the new baby is here. Oh by the way, we have another name to consider: Noelle Grace....but we're still in prayer, just wanted to keep everyone updated.
We're doing our best to get all the videos uploaded and pics on the blog too, but we hope you enjoy what's on here so far and whats to come (excuse the mess of the blog)!!
And we have a feeling Caleb will be here by the end of next week. Trey and I were talking and it's so weird to think that the stage Mer is at now in her pregnancy, Hannah would've already been here if it was my last pregnancy. It's so neat to think that when Hannah was almost a week old, she was as big as Caleb is now inside Aunt Meme! God is amazing!!!!!! We love you already Caleb and can't wait to meet you, whenever God has planned that you will come!
Pics from last night:
We're doing our best to get all the videos uploaded and pics on the blog too, but we hope you enjoy what's on here so far and whats to come (excuse the mess of the blog)!!
And we have a feeling Caleb will be here by the end of next week. Trey and I were talking and it's so weird to think that the stage Mer is at now in her pregnancy, Hannah would've already been here if it was my last pregnancy. It's so neat to think that when Hannah was almost a week old, she was as big as Caleb is now inside Aunt Meme! God is amazing!!!!!! We love you already Caleb and can't wait to meet you, whenever God has planned that you will come!
Pics from last night:
Thursday, December 25, 2008
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