WE ARE HOME!!!!!!!!!!!

After 3 LONG months we have finally been able to bring our little Paisley home. We left the hospital today at about 1:30 pm and with two car loads of stuff and a beautiful little baby girl we headed to Cedar City. After several pit stops we arrived home at about 7:00 pm this evening. So far everything has gone well. Blake was more than excited to be home, he kept saying "I remember this!!!" when he saw a toy of his. My mom will be here for a week to help out with just about anything. Again we would like to thank you all for your love, prayers and support.

Our little Dough Boy

When Grannie Carrie was down we went to Krispy Kreme's for a treat & Blake loved the Krispy Kreme hat, he wore it for most of the day!!

All Bundled Up

Her First Bath

Grammy Carrie

Our little Paisley

I just thought I would update everyone on how Paisley is doing. She has had a good week this week. She is back in her crib and back to wearing clothes as you can see by the picture. She has has some trouble going back to the bottle, but she is back up to the amount she was eating before the surgery, only it is through the tube rather than the bottle. Last time we checked she weighed 4 pounds 10 ounces so she is gaining weight. I believe that she has tripled her weight since she was born. Hopefully if she gets the feeding thing back down it should only be several more weeks until she and the rest of the family get to come home. Please pray that she will get this down because we really need to be together as a family. I realize that I sound like a broken record, but we are all more than ready to be together. Thank you all again for your prayers and support.

Better Day!!!

Paisley is doing much better over the last couple of days, they took her off the ventilator yesterday and she was able to eat again. YEAH!!! Now we are back on track and hopefully she will be able to come home soon. We are crossing our fingers. She is such a beautiful girl and it was so fun to see her open her eyes yesterday.

Update

I just wanted to post an update on Paisley. This afternoon when Clover went into a doctors appointment she stopped by to see Paisley afterwards and they informed her that they were going to be doing the surgery at between about 3 and 4 pm. I was at Alice's with Blake and Clover called and informed me that she was on her way to pick me up. I arranged to have Jake and Melissa watch Blake and we headed to the hospital. We hurried up and waited and they ended up doing the surgery at about 5 0r 5:30. She is doing just fine now, the nurses said she did so well and that everything went just fine. It was so hard to see her all medicated and out of it. So now she will just have to be on the ventilator for a couple days, and she should be able to start back on her progress and hopefully come home soon enough. Thank you again for your prayers and we will continue to keep you updated.

Surgery :(

Our little girl has to have surgery:( We have kind of known that she will eventually have to have the surgery, but we hoped that it wouldn't have to happen for a while. From birth she has had a heart murmur which is caused by what is called a PDA (I can't remember what that stands for). A PDA is basically a small hole in one of the arteries. It is a fairly common thing for premature babies to have and the nurses and doctors all say that it is nothing to worry about, but as a parent you never want to see your little one have to go through something like this. We are still not sure exactly when they will be doing the surgery, but it will most likely be in the next couple of days (probably Friday). It is a very short procedure (15 minutes), and hopefully she will be back to eating by Sunday or Monday. She hasn't eaten since last Saturday, and yesterday when I went to see her she was going to town on her Binky, so I know she is hungry. Other than the surgery she is doing pretty good. She was wide awake the whole time I was there yesterday and I just got to hold her and we just looked into each others eyes the whole time. She is so precious and it makes Clover and I sad to think of her having to have the surgery, but it is necessary for her to progress so that she can come home with us, which is what we really want and need. Thank you all for your prayers and love, We could not do this without you all. THANK YOU!!!

Rough Weekend

Paisley had a rough weekend. On Thursday the nurses were getting us all excited with talk of her coming home in 1-2 weeks, because she was doing so well and accomplishing all of her goals. But overnight she had alot of residual (food that she hadn't digested) and so they ordered an x-ray for her stomach. After looking at that they thought that she might have an infection in her stomach. They ran several different tests and did several more x-rays. They also took her off of her feedings because of the infection and started her on antibiotics. All of these things were done for precautionary reasons just in case she did have an infection. All of the test came back negative and the x-rays all looked normal. But we are just waiting to hear from the radiologist for the final verdict, but they feel like she probably doesn't have an infection. It was rough on us because she was doing so good with her feeding and she was in an open crib and wearing clothes, but because of the IV she can't wear clothes so she was getting cold and that in turn forced them to put her back in the incubator. So we feel like we have taken a couple of steps back. We were able to give her another blessing. Our bishop and his wife were up in SLC and so we asked him come and help give her a blessing. She is such a cute little girl and it was fun to see her in clothes, she looks like a completely different baby. Hopefully she will bounce back and it won't be much longer till she can come home. Please pray that she can come home soon, we are all more than ready to be home together as a family. Thank you all again for all your love and support.