1 Week Home

Hi All, sorry it's been so long. It's been a busy week this week having Dillan home. We've had doctor appointments to get to and we try to get up to visit Tyler as much as we can. Dillan is doing great at home. She is such a good baby. She eats and sleeps and just continues to grow. She's on her last package of preemie diapers and I'll be upgrading her to newborns. Her preemie clothes don't fit anymore but she still drowns in the newborn stuff. There isn't much in between. Tonight she got a bath and is sleeping on my chest as I type this. On Thursday we met with her pediatrician for the first time and on Monday she had a follow up eye appointment. Her eyes are developing as they should be. They are obviously behind for a two month old baby but they are perfect for her gestational age.

The dogs are still getting used to Dillan. Bosco was really mad at me the first day we got home and wouldn't come around at all. Cinder thinks the noises she makes are strange and she always runs to her when she cries. I think Cinder will be her little protector.

Tyler is trying his hardest to get home with us. His oxygen has been changed to what it would be if he has to come home on oxygen. He is now receiving 100% oxygen but it is on the very lowest flow setting there is without shutting the oxygen off. The doctors are trying to wean him off of the oxygen before he comes home but we will see. Tyler has been eating great. He ate everything from a bottle for about a day and a half and then he got too tired and had to have some of it tubed. He now weighs 6 pounds 13 ounces. He's gaining weight like crazy and trying to get big and strong to come home. Tomorrow Corey and I have training on how to use a home monitor and oxygen for when Tyler comes home. He will for sure come home on a monitor but the oxygen is a just in case thing. The really exciting news is that if Tyler continues to do well he will be home within a week.

I will keep everyone posted on Tyler's progress this week. We are just so happy that he's doing well. He's been through so much in his short little life we just can't wait to get him home so he can just be a spoiled little baby boy.

The kids are already two months old. It's been a long road in the NICU but it really has gone by fast. Everyone I talk to tells me to cherish this time when they are so small because it goes by so fast. I think of that statement every night when I am up feeding Dillan in the middle of the night. We are blessed that we get EXTRA baby time with both of the kids because they were born so early. The journey has had it's ups and downs but we are so thankful for every day we get to spend with our kids. We are very lucky.

Thanks everyone for your continued love and support.

Love
Joscy, Corey, Dillan & Tyler