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! :)

Our Halloween

The kids had a very fun Halloween this year! We had a Witch, Darth Vader, & a Fairy Princess! They were definitely entertaining to go trick-or-treating with -- Colette especially was constantly mumbling the funniest things - after every door, she'd be looking in her bucket and saying, "That's so nice for me!" She couldn't believe all these people were giving her candy... Samuel loved to be the brave one whenever they came upon a "spooky" house - he would march up to it so proudly to prove he was not scared - when his sisters were much more hesitant. :) And when we got home, and he dumped out his candy, he gave Jared and I quite the surprise when he shouted, "Holy Crap!" (Or in his language - "Ho-wee Twap"!) :) We'd never heard him say that before - we were definitely cracking up... And our ever-social Brielle -- she was more excited about coming home to hand out candy to trick-or-treaters -- she was literally flagging people down from our doorway, so they would come to our house to get candy! Funny kids... They sure make the holidays fun... :)


These were their scary faces for Halloween - (above) - of course it's kind of hard to see Samuel's! :)