Our Thanksgiving

We were very excited to have my family come to visit us for Thanksgiving weekend this year!! They were tons of help with all that ended up happening last week with Timothy at the hospital -- again, making it a fun experience for our kids rather than a stressful one! We were very thankful to have them! We ended up going to Golden Corral for our Thanksgiving meal (again due to the busyness of the week), and it was actually a fun little afternoon we had there -- and no mess to clean up afterwards! :)

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Timothy’s first Thanksgiving was of course spent at the NICU, but it was still an exciting day, as we knew it was going to be one of his last ones there!! :) He actually had his carseat trial that day (making sure he doesn’t start de-satting while sitting in his carseat for an hour and a half) -- and of course he passed just fine! :) We also took this other picture that day too -- before we started packing up all his stuff -- to show what his little corner of the world looked like for his first 11 weeks of life… Quite the menagerie he had built up there! Also very exciting those first few days we got to hold him without his pick line and all his cords and wires attached to him...

Timothy's Milk

We had a momentous occassion yesterday!! Timothy has not been doing so well on his eating and weight-gain thus far, so they decided to make an exciting change yesterday. I've actually been pumping this whole time, in the hopes that he might still be able to nurse eventually (our freezer is completely packed with stored milk!!) Well, yesterday, I finally felt like I was pumping for a purpose!! They are letting him have 10% breast milk as a part of his diet now - mixed in with his formula, in the hopes that it might help in his weight-gain! So anyway, I am just SO excited that it really may be a possibility for him to have all this milk eventually!!!!! So yesterday was Timothy's first time, in his 10 weeks of life so far, having breast milk! VERY exciting day for me yesterday!! :) This is a picture of our happy smily boy as always in the NICU yesterday... (Sorry it's a little blurry - but I just love that smile!)

Family Thanksgiving Stuff!

So Brielle brought home a family turkey project from school, that her family was all supposed to help her decorate in any way we wanted... So we decided to do it for Family Home Evening last week, and the kids absolutely loved it - picking out different things to decorate it with (noodles, beans, glitter, stickers, etc)... It ended up being a really fun little family activity, and Brielle was very excited to take the finished product back to school with her!

The school also had a Thanksgiving lunch last week, that families were invited to come and share in with the students, and we all ended up being able to go! Samuel and Colette were so excited to feel like such big kids, eating lunch at the school cafeteria! And Brielle loved getting to show us where she eats lunch every day... It was a fun experience (especially since we're not sure what kind of Thanksgiving meal we're going to end up having ourselves this week!) :)

Update on Timothy

Timothy - 2 months old

10 lbs. 8 oz.

Timothy turned 2 months old last week and we had a very exciting Xray!! (Still no fluid in his chest cavity even with him eating now)!!! We were so very thankful and relieved - we are hoping so much that this means the leak has hopefully healed. He is still slowly continuing to eat more and more formula every day, which is making him feel so much more happy and content these days, although the poor thing is having quite the time with spitting up, throwing up, reflux, etc. (all that fun stuff) during the actual eating process... We're sure his body needs time to adjust to food inside of it once again... He has also been having troubles with a weird stridor noise that he's been making, and is most likely going to have to have a bronchoscopy done sometime this week to find out what is causing it. We are hoping and praying it's not another serious issue! But for now we are just so thankful that all is going well in relation to the chylothorax and that from the looks of things, he will not need surgery!! Thank you to everyone for all your constant prayers, love, and support! :)