Weekly update...

Samford and her new baby sister...ever since Lily has come home Samford's motherly instincts have been in full force trying to protect Lily. Too sweet but also quite annoying when she barks or growls at every little noise!

Lily was having one of those days where she didn't want to be anywhere but in our arms. So she went to work with Daddy for a little while so I could get out of the house for a moment. Thanks Daddy!!!

So sweet...She loves laying on her arm...It's like she is posing all the time!

Sweet gown Nana brought her...

Stretch...

Lily had an eye appointment last Thursday so we went to visit her nurses in the hospital afterwards. This is Chelsea who was Lily's primary nurse on Level 2. So cute!

Lily and Stephanie...one of Lily's Level 3 primary nurses. It is always great to see these girls who are so special to us and who worked so hard to provide the best outcome for our precious little girl!

Dr. Wong and Lily...Lily's pediatrician on level 2 while she was in the hospital. She took extra special care of Lily. Thanks Dr. Wong...I'm getting sooo big!

This is my new answering service!! Thomas loves to get to the phone first and has learned what button to push to answer...actually kindof helpful at times!

Thomas in Daddy's shoes...

Sorry it has been a week since my last update. I promise to try and be better. Some days it is 3pm and I haven't even had a shower yet! Where does the time go? We are working on trying to get on some type of schedule. So last week was a busy week for Lily. ECI (Early childhood intervention) came to the house to do an evaluation on Lily to see if she qualifies for there program. An occupational therapist will be coming to work with Lily on any delays she may have or any potential problems. She did really well and was caught up as far as her corrected age goes. She also went back to the eye doctor. Her ROP is improving and shouldn't require any intervention or cause any problems. Yea! She was a little more farsighted than normal but hopefully this will correct itself with age as well. No major problems to worry about and she doesn't go back until she is a year old!! Praise God!

Thomas is doing well, getting funnier every day. His new thing is following Greg everywhere and constantly asking "what doing daddy, what's that, what daddy..." Really cute but tiresome when you repeat herself 50 times in a minute!! He is still doing good with "Wily" but he appears to be getting a little jealous that she gets to sleep in our room and he doesn't. So now he is not wanting to go to bed in his room until we just have to threaten him to stay in bed and he is waking up super early and crawling in our bed in the wee hours of the morning. It is kind of frightening when you wake up and there is a toddler staring you in the face! So we will have to work on that or none of us will be getting any sleep.

Thanks so much to all of you have called over the past week. It has been so good to talk to some very good friends that I haven't talked to in a long time. I appreciate you taking the time to call. It helps me so much since I am not able to get out much yet.

Please be praying for my friend's baby that I have mentioned several times who remains in the NICU. He has been off of the ventilator for almost a month now and today they are having to put him back on. This is so hard to understand as a mother and so frustrating to have to take a step back like this, so please pray for the parents strength and peace and to know that God is still with them and in control. Thanks.