Kenadie has found her voice....After her Doctors appt on Thursday and she recieved her 2 months shots, I think she realized that she does have a voice and she uses it. It was so sad to see her get her shots 3 of them. It made me want to cry along with her. The next couple of days were a little yucky she was feverish and her o2 sats were everywhere but I think that is due to a falty machine. I had to call Dr Brown's office to ask him what I should worry about, I have no idea I have never done the mommy thing. I barely made it through the phone call without crying. LOL. Things today are good, she is still as cute as ever and I want to take her everywhere to show her off but I make myself be house bound I am not going to expose her to everthing and have her get sick so soon.....Snug as a bug
Machine for sale, works great....NOT!

You would think that if you payed $700 a month for this

machine it would be great.

It goes off every little movement and it is driving me

insane! She is low 70's and the next second she is high 90's I don't think so!!!! I have gotten so I only use it when she sleeps and then

just watch her closely in the day.

We are all soooooo tired!

Our first days home have been really fun, busy and I am tired! :) The first night she did really well and then last night is another story, I think I got a total of 2 hours of sleep, she didn't want to go to bed for nothing and when I would go lay her down she would moan and move around and that would set of the oxygen meter machine-kind of annoying.....I never know if it is reading it right or if it is just making up a number I don't understand how she can be low 80's and the next second high 90's. I still havn't heard the full loud cry yet she is such a good baby that way I sometimes wonder if she can cry.

Had a photo session with her already, I love this picture!

First bath at home! She wasn't so sure about it.
Isn't she so cute!!!!

A bitter~sweet day! Today after 79 days in a NICU setting,

Kenadie was released to come home. It was a very tearful

moment for me when the nurses all said goodbye and

that they were going to miss seeing her there,

I too, will miss them and the friendships we made.

Our little sweetheart all bundled up ready to get out of there.

Dad trying to get her situated in the car.

Kenadie enjoying the ride home, I think I was more nervous than anything.!
I just want to thank the many wonderful nurses at LRH.  Everyone of them had something to offer and we grew to love and enjoy all of them and the time that we spent there.

Now the fun begins :) !!!

DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL
PROUD DADDY!

On the wall in Kenadie's room there is a saying that says "cherish the SMALL things in life" We truly have enjoyed this little bundle that has come into and blessed our lifes.
Today the NG tube that has been feeding Kenadie was removed and she looks so much better without that in her nose, the only thing left is the oxygen and we know we will be coming home with that. The time for her coming home is close at hand, and I am a little nervous but very excited to become a "full time" mommy instead of a drop in visitor at the NICU. This little girl has brought so much love and joy into my life, I don't know how I ever lived without her.

It is amazing what a little blood will do to such a little girl, when I went back up yesterday at 6:00pm they had just finished the blood transfusion and Kenadie's checks were already pink and she looked tons better, I got her out to feed her at 7:00 and she did awesome, it was like she couldn't get enough, she was a new little girl from that morning, she had so much energy and was so much more alert. Today she took her first feeding at 7:00 am with no problem and the Dr wanted to see how she would do with trying to oral feed all of the 8 feedings as of tonight she was taking every one of them (5 feedings) by mouth with out any problems at all. They left the IV in her head just in case they need to give her more blood, they are doing blood work in the morning.

Today Kenadie had blood work done again because she was still looking very pale and so they decided to do blood work today instead of waiting for the weekend. Her hemoglobin was 7 which was low, (it was 10 last week) so this afternoon Kenadie is getting another blood transfusion, I couldn't stay to watch them put the IV in I had to leave, I went back 1/2 hour later and they said they got it the second time, they tried the hand first and that didn't work so she they ended up putting it in her head.
Dr Brown has increased her feedings to 50 ml every 3 hours and we are bottle feeding every other feeding, so we are (hopefully) halfway to being able to come home. I am hoping with this blood that she will get some energy to start bottle feeding more without getting tired.
Kenadie weighs 5 pounds 8 ounces.

The Blessings just keep coming.......Kenadie's Dr read in her history that she has had this murmur since birth but it is the type of murmur that closes all on its on, at birth it was a 3 mm hole between 2 chambers and at the end of July it was 2mm in size and so that is why you can hear it some days and other days you cant, the Dr said it is so small and almost closed up, he was very happy with the information that he found out. Kenadie also had her 4th eye exam Thursday night and she is completely vascularized and there is no sign of any ROP, he wants to do a follow up exam in 2 months just for safety purposes.

Everywhere I go and turn people are always saying that Kenadie is in their prayers and I know that is why she is doing as well and blessed as much as she is. I get so touched when people tell me that their children (who don't even know us) are praying for her, it just brings tears to my eyes and I know that Heavenly Father loves the little children and pays really close attention to them. Thanks to everyone of you that has helped us along the way and has offered prayers in our behalf as we have seen them work and have felt very comforted by them all. We love you!

So when there is nothing new to report, I have learned that you should just keep your mouth shut! The Dr. told me that he heard a murmur in her heart this morning, he didn't hear it yesterday and he just discovered it this morning. Our regular Dr is out on vacation for a week so we have another Dr covering for him. He said it is very small and quite but something he wants to follow up on, he said he wants to do an ekg sometime just to see what is going on. They are also checking her hemoglobin tomorrow because she has been looking a little pale. She hit the five pound mark tonight, she weighs 5 pounds 0.1 ounce.
Today I got to breastfeed for the first time, exciting for both of us. Kenadie did an excellent job and I think she got more milk than she is used to in a feeding, she was like a person at Thanksgiving, moaning because she ate to much. The Dr said I can breastfeed once a day and then bottle feed 3 more times so every other feeding she is resting. That means we are half way there to coming home and it only took her a week and a half to get there. So maybe if she continues down the same path she will be able to come home in a week or two. I hope it is soon because it is getting so hard, I left the hospital crying tonight because I just couldn't leave her there! I was holding her and then went to put her in the bed and she started crying so I picked her back up and held her to my chest and cried, the nurse came in and I felt so embarrassed.  I held her until she was sound, then kissed her little head and put her to bed.