VBS

This was a big week for Emma. Her baby brother came home AND it was VBS week. Emma looks forward to this week every year. This was her first year not in the pre-school program and it was a big difference. She go to make all the crafts and bring them home and share them with us. This year the theme was Crocodile Rock. The slogan was "Fear Not." Everytime someone would say 'God is with you" the kids would respond with shouting "Fear Not." What a great message for little kids to learn. It's something as adults we often forget.

Brennen is finally home!!

Good news! Brennen is home!! He looks like a little peanut in his car seat but he will grow into it fast I'm sure. He weighes 6lbs 5oz now and is on the lowest setting of O2. His doctor will let us know when its time to take him off. I am so happy to report that he is home and doing well. One night down... 18 yrs to go

NOT a fan of water

A few days ago we gave Brennen a real bath. He wasn't too happy about it. It looks like Brennen has a milk allergy. It's not 100% for sure but they are feeding him lactose free formula and it seems to be working well. We are hoping that Brennen will take to his new formula and also take his feeding with a bottle and not have to use the feeding tube. He is on the lowest O2 setting there is. He is still at about 5lbs 13oz. We noticed that the nurses got a package of newborn diapers so it looks like he'll be moving up from preemies soon. Hopefully Brennen will be home soon. We are anxious to get the Boeckner 4 started!!!

What a cry

Baby Brennen grunts

Brennen Video

Brennen is 5 lbs 10 oz as of tonight

Lightning Show

Had a lightning show tonight. Here is a little bit of it

This cost me a cookie

Went to take Emma to visit Brennen today. This is the closest she has ever been to him. It took about 5 minutes of begging and a promise of a cookie from the cafeteria for us to get her to get close enough to take picture with her brother. Brennen will start his feeds again tomorrow. They decided to just finish up the full 7 days of antibiotics before starting the feeds again. He is up to 4lbs 14 oz. Hard to believe that is how big Emma was when we took her home. Brenne will probbaly be pretty close to being out of preemie clothes and diapers by the time he comes home. Still don't know when that will be, but everyday is one step closer

A little set back

Brennen has had a little set back. He has a pocket of air in his bowel. It leaves room for infection to grow and cause some problems. The good thing is that the docs found it before the infection was able to grow. Thank God! The set back is that they had to stop his feeds and put him on antibiotics as a precaution. After that they will start his feeds slowly. Another cause could be a milk allergy. In that case if they start feeding him again and he gets the air pocket again. The docs will go from there. In the meantime He is just sleeping and growing and getting stronger. 5 more days of meds and then we start the feeding process again. Poor little guy had to get poked again for an IV but hopefully it wont be for to long. He is doing a really good job starting to suck. He LOVES is "B" If he can practice while he gets better then the learning to feed
process should go much smoother once we can start to bottle feed. The nurse even mentioned that after he get better from this he sould be able to be moved into a crib rather than the isolete. One day at a time. Everyday we are closer to taking him home. "Be still and know that I am God" Psalm 46:10

Visiting Brennen