The Sweetest Gift!

As of last night Angel girl weighed 3 pounds 4 ozs! Her primary nurse Margie got her a headband and she was sooo adorable in it!

Here is her 7 week picture with her cow! She is getting sooooo big now!

As for the sweetest gift....

When I came in this morning she was back on Bubbles and was dressed!! They are going to move her in the next few days to a crib!!!!!!!!!! I can bring clothes in now for her! This is the best birthday gift I could have hoped for short of her coming home!

Weaning the vent

Sorry I have not updated in a few days it has been crazy to say the least. It is hard to blog when all 8 other kids are home. We are patiently waiting for 2 babies to be born in this family. My Niece is being induced today and sometime later we will welcome Josephine May into the family. Meghan is due 2-2 but I think Lily is waiting to be born on grandmas birthday. Yes Sunday 2/1 is my birthday. Wow 32 and I feel so old already.

Soli is doing well. she is floating around the 3 lb mark. As of yesterday her Co2 levals were finally in the 40s so they are slowly weaning down the vent. She has been at the vents highest settings (60 Breaths per minute) for over a week and we were afraid that if her Co2 levals did not come down she might have to go on the jet vent. The jet vent is a high frequency vent. I guess she overheard me and Margie talking about that and decided to start behaving. As of last ishe was down to 51 RPM and 45% O2.

The 3 POUND MARK!!!!!

My angel has DOUBLED her birth weight!! She is getting so big. I was amazed looking at her hands last night. They are so big compared to the size they were when she was born! She is filling out and is so Beautiful! She is starting to look like Corbin. Her weight last night was 3 lbs 1 oz. Making it to the 3 lb mark is a sigh of relief. A small glimmer in the bad week we have had.

Here is her 6 week Chick-a-lay pic:

Yesterday I was doing Diaper laundry and brought all the clean diapers out to the livingroom to fold and Corbin was "helping" me. I left the room for a minute and he decided he wanted to be IN the Fluff rather than helping put it away

Here is my boy in some Jesus Fluff!

On the vent...AGAIN

grrrrrrrrrr. I hate this! Soli is back on the vent... i just want to scream! Would it really hurt to make some progress and NOT step back?! Seriously God I am not sure how much more of this I can handle! A break that is all I am asking for. For Me and for Soli.

FINALLY... Some good news!

Well apparently last night about 9 pm my Angel decided she no longer wanted the vent's assistance so she ex-tubated herself! Now she is on Bubbles and is doing very well. They are keeping a very close eye on her as she was still on rather high settings on the vent. As of now she is sating at about 95% and is on 50% O2. She is Bubbling away. She is actually doing better than she was on the vent. I am so relieved! Finally some good news after a bad week. I cannot wait to go see her today!

I am going to link you to one of my blog follower's blog that he sent me yesterday. He wrote about Soli and Tom and I feel so blessed that this man is praying for our daughter all the way in INDIA! His daughter and ours are a month apart and we are both blogging for our children though in different ways... If you have the time please read it and comment him. He writes so well and it will be worth the read!
http://myheartfeltmusings.blogspot.com/

I had a dream...

OK I know 2 posts in one day but I was in the shower and I was reviewing my dream from last night.
In my dream I was in a room and I looked up and saw a baby in Soli's spot. (In the NICU your child can be moved spots daily) The baby in the bed was lying on it's tummy looking up at me with huge blue eyes. I looked around for Soli and was upset they had moved her and I did not know where she was. The baby in the bed looked like it was going to fall out of the bed so I walked over to check it and saw the name on the bed. Silva, Solange Lea. It was Soli, no machines, no oxygen just a normal, beautiful, healthy baby girl. Then I woke up. It was a wonderful dream! I have tried to think about what it means. Is it just my desire for her to come off the vent and get healthy? OR was it showing me what was to come? Either way I have held on to that dream all day.

I have been sick and I was not able to go see her today and I am a bit depressed about that but I keep calling to check on her. I hope each time that they will tell me she is doing better but I get the same response, she is stable and is the same. She is up to 2 lbs 13 ozs though.

Wordless Wednesday.. well almost wordless.

Meghan..37 weeks

We had to update our family on our van cause people are missing. So here is our old family. I will take a pic of our new family as I cannot seem to find one right now.