Life with Our Itty Bitty Baby Girl

A quote I got from another preemie mom:
Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not [...]

Ask and you shall receive, right?  Nana Dana posted some fun pictures on her facebook page, so I thought I’d post them here for you non-facebookers to see.  (How do you muddle through life without facebook, anyway?)  We took Becca up to Ashland, Kentucky to meet her great-grandmothers and visit with Nana and G-diddy.  We [...]

Becca likes to sing “Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes,” so when I started writing this post this song came to mind.  Not much to say about her head (still big, round, bald, and adorably Yoda-esque), shoulders (expect that she has little dimples on the backs of them like her Nanny Hitchcock), knees (um, what is there [...]

Nothing in particular to say today – so I thought I’d share some of my favorite pictures from this month!
 
 

We got to bring our baby girl home from the hospital again today! This time she looked like she belonged in her carseat – compared with the not-quite-5-pounder we brought home a few months ago. [By way of comparison: she is still 3 ounces smaller than her boyfriend Hunter was when he was born. Sarah [...]

Okay, Becca has come through the surgery fine and has woken up enough to eat – which was, of course, the first thing she wanted to do.  She’s still very, very groggy (okay, she’s back to sleep now), and her belly is poofier and tighter than I’d like to see, but I think she’s just [...]

Hi! Becca is still in surgery at 4:54 CST. They took her back at 3 (1.5 hours late, of course), after we starved her for 7 hours – poor baby! She was quite mad at us by then (though not as back as I had imagined she would be – she was [...]

Hey, folks!
I’ve been working on a great post about developmental issues (and how Becca’s development is awesome), but – and I know you’ve heard this before – I haven’t gotten around to putting it on “paper,” so bear with me. I did just finish a weekend leading a trip of 35 (mostly youth), complete [...]