Brady’s special Day

First of all the babies are doing great!  Karsyn has rebounded like a champ!  She’s back on cannula and is going to try her first bottle feed tonight!  Keep your fingers crossed for this one!  They’re monitoring her infection and as soon as they have a negative culture she’ll be on antibiotics for 10 days and hopefully that will be the end of that.  Kaden is doing great as well.  He’s doing bottles/nursing every other feeding….so 4 out of 8 times.  He should increase these in the next day or two. He had his eyes checked again today and the dr. is a little concerned that his ROP is getting worse so he’s going to check them again on Saturday.  We’re praying he doesn’t need the same surgery Karsyn had. 

The word on the street in the NICU is that both babies are moving to level II tomorrow!  Sorry Katie!!  It’s very bittersweet because we’re going to miss our nurses and doctors in level III.  I’ve asked several times if I can take our nurses with us.  They just kind of laugh and smile….do they not realize I’m serious??!?!  BUT we’re excited to be one step closer to coming home and we’re excited to have Dr. Isenhower taking care of the babies.  Dr. Isenhower is our pedi and has been absolutely amazing through this whole process.  She has been there every step of the way…comes by almost every day to check on the little guys and in the beginning called us at home after hours to see if we had any questions about what was going on.  Not many pediatricians give you their personal cell numbers.  We feel truly blessed to have her in our lives!

Yesterday afternoon was Brady’s special day!!  Poor little guy has drawn the short end of the stick a lot lately with us being gone for Karsyn’s surgeries.  He’s been so good at going with the flow and being happy with being passed around that we decided to reward him with a trip to Kemah boardwalk!!  He got to ride a few of the rides by himself…don’t worry they were kid sized, and of course we rode the train which we thought would be a huge hit.  His response to the train was “Dis not the big train”.  Hmmmm I’m thinking Grandpa and Grandma Nan might have spoiled him with one too many trips on the actual train downtown!!  Mommy and Daddy we’re hyping up the silly “little” train in Kemah…what were we thinking?!??!??  Even though he was disappointed with the train he had a blast and we finished our night with Mexican food out by the water!  A great night with our little man!!!

The Carousel!

He kept telling Jeff  “howd on tight wike diss daddy” and he would show him how to put his hands!  Very cute!! 

his first big boy ride by himself.  I didn’t cry, but I wanted too!  When did he get so big?!?!

He loved it!!

The mini ferris wheel

look at that face…do you think he liked it?!?

Mommy and Brady on the silly “little” train!

Chips by the bay…doesn’t get much better than this!

Evidently Brady took a few pictures of his own on the way home!

 

and I’ll leave you with a few of the kids from the weekend!

Brady patting his brudder

mommy and the princess again!  I just love how peaceful she looks!

Daddy feeding Kaden a bottle for the first time!