New Pictures of Havyn

So I am only posting a few of these pictures because otherwise you'll be here all day. They are all on facebook, though, if you would like to see them all. These are some of my favorite. Abrey does an AWESOME job, and is the best friend a girl could have. If you want to book a session with her her link is on my links.

The Bottle Phone

Lately Kai has been getting a hold of phones and talking on them like he is talking to someone. It's so cute with all his baby talk and the way he changes his tone of voice. This morning I got him out of his crib and gave him a bottle. When he was done, he used the bottle as his phone! So funny!

My Little Helper

Kai has a love of the broom and vacuum so he got a talking broom, and this is what he has done almost all day.

Home Sweet Home

Havyn Is HOME!!!! FINALLY!!!

More Havyn News

Havyn has been doing awesome with her eating. Today when I went to give her a bath they took out the feeding tube, and they are going to let her try going without it. We hope to bring her home soon!

Havyn Update

So I have needed to post an update about Havyn for a while now, and here it is. She is doing AWESOME! Yesterday she decided that food just may not be that bad after all, and she ate her first full bottle! We were shocked, and so was her nurse. The next shocking thing was she almost ate the whole thing at her next feeding too! And it continues, which apparently isn't usually the case. The nurse said usually babies will eat one and be so tired they don't do it again right away or continue through the next day. She didn't eat her entire bottle every time today, but she did over half every time, and the last two have been the entire thing! We are so excited, strange I know, but when your baby is as sick as she was you get excited about the small things. Hopefully this means she will be able to come home with us soon!

Early Valentines Present

I have to post this because I think what Tyrell got me for Valentines is so cute! With all the stuff we have going on at our house we just decided to do presents early.

Tyrell's Latest Project

So we have been wanting to do something with the ugly kitchen for a long time, and it's finally done. Tyrell came up with this cool design idea to paint on the cabinets and we went to work matching the tile he put in to paint colors. He has done so much in the kitchen all by himself. It started with the tile floor and now he has painted and changed all the hardware on the cabinets. It looks so much better! The top two pictures are the before.

Havyn Update

Little miss Havyn decided she didn't need oxygen anymore this morning, and ripped it off. The nurse told us when we got there, and said that she had decided to see what she did without out. She has now held her oxygen level at a good level on her own for the entire day! We are so excited! They have said she might have to go back on it eventually if she starts to have problems. She has took a tiny bit of her food from a bottle a couple of times today. We still have a long road ahead of us before she can come home, but she is making awesome progress. They upped her feeding to about 24 cc's tonight, and for her weight when she was born they said she needed to be eating about 60 out of a bottle each feeding in order to come home. To maintain her weight now she will probably need a little more. She now weighs 5 pounds 15 ounces.

Good Havyn News and LOTS of Pictures

Havyn is much better! She is now just on regular oxygen. They have taken all the IVs out of her belly button, and she just has one in to give her antibiotics, and fluid if needed. She is also eating through a feeding tube that goes in through her nose, down her throat, and into her stomach. This way they can check to see how much food she has digested. She was able to get her chest tube taken out this morning as well. This made is so now we can hold her. That part is so great! The two things they are concerned with at this point are whether or not they will need to put in a pick line and jaundice. They said if her jaundice level goes up any more they will need to put her under lights. The pick line they may need to do if they are going to need to do much with her IV much longer, since regular IVs don't last long, and they have to move them from place to place often. She has had hers in her feet, and now it's in her head. We still don't know when she will be able to come home, but she is improving nicely.