Its been too long!!!

Wow....I know it has been a long time since I've updated but there has been so much craziness going on in our lives that it just was impossible to sit down and blog. But i do plan on getting back in the mix and updating often...Well Melani is officially a walker. She worked up enough confidence to let go and take off! This is huge for her considering her vision impairment but she is definitely going to have it down soon. She weighs about 21 lbs now and her doctor switched her formula due to her lack of growth in the past year. She is doing so amazing! Things are changing around here. My husband joined the army and is in South Carolina right now. By the time he comes home, I hope Melani is a little butterball. We are hoping to put a little bit of fat on her tiny frame. =) She also tries to repeat words and she loves to play with her brother and sister. Cant believe that in 7 months I will have a 3 year old! It seems like just yesterday I was bringing her home from the hospital! Man how time flies! I'm gonna post a few pictures of my kiddos at the park a few days ago!

Quick Update

So it has been so long since I've updated about Melani. Life has just been so crazy.
Melani is doing amazing! She is 22 months old and weighs 20 lbs. She gets into everything and we are working on walking but with her vision impairment it is going to take a little bit of time. She is the happiest baby ever. Uhm...she is off of all meds and all oxygen as of April of 2010. Not much to update but life is going great and i will post pictures of her soon! She'll be 2 in November and we are so excited that we are actually contemplating having a party for her...but we're not too sure since her birthday is in the middle of RSV season.

Happy 1st Birthday!

November 16, 2008
This time last year we were told our baby didn't have a great chance at surviving 2 days of life....now one year later we are celebrating the birth of our miracle girl and she is here to celebrate it with us! God is so good.

Melani is 10 months today! She is doing amazing. She is laughing with her brother and sister all the time! She is just the happiest baby ever!

Swallow Study

Melani had a swallow study done this morning and she did great!!! She did way better than they thought she was going to do considering how premature she was and how long it's been since she ate with a bottle. She also got up to date with her shots. =( It was my first time seeing her get them and i wanted to cry ...but she got over it really fast...but boy did she get ticked. LOL

Quick Update

Sorry that I haven't really been updating you all who are trying to keep up with Melani's progress. She is doing amazing. She is now 10 lbs 12 ozs. She is starting to coo alot and i love to hear her in her crib talking to herself. Its so cute. She is working on rolling over...and she is almost there. She seems to always have a smile on her face these days. Her recent trip to the pulmonologist went well...he "officially" lowered her down to 1/2 of a liter of o2. She was on 1/4 in the hospital but went home on half...but since no official orders were written...they are now. =) Anyways, i will update again later as new things come. Thank you for all of your prayers!

Long, Long Road

So as you all know, Melani came home from the NICU on 7.16.09...exactly 8 months after she was born. Woohoo! =) But we had a small set back on 7.24.09...she was really gasy and was just so uncomfortable and had a low fever so we took her to the children's er. Welllll, turned out she had a blockage somewhere in her intestines and everything that should have been coming out of her body "naturally" was being backed up and going out of her g-tube. Not a pretty thing. But she ended up having surgery again on July 27, 2009 and it went great. Her intestines slid into her colon and that was the obstruction...luckily there was no dead intestine and it was a quick and easy surgery. We were so scared about her getting reintubated because we thought her lungs were just so bad that it was going to take a while to get her off of the ventilator but she was off as soon as surgery was over and was back to her normal self the next day. She was in a little pain but not like the previous surgeries she's had. She came home 8.1.09...her daddys birthday!!! Best present out there! =) She is a little fighter and the strongest person i know. She was been through more in her 8 1/2 months of life than most people go through in their entire lives. I'm so thankful my family is finally under one roof and I hope it stays like this for a very LONG LONG while!!!

Melani did amazing in surgery. It was only a minor problem and it was fixed without cutting her intestines!! She's off of the vent and on 1 liter of oxygen! Yay

Melani is back in surgery. Friday she started having lots of gas and went to the er....the said she has a intestinal blockage....i hope this surgery goes well.

Melani is so amazing at home. She is smiling sooo much! Anytime someone talks to her she smiles from ear to ear! I finally have all of my babies under one roof!

She's FINALLY home!!! After exactly 8 months of being in the NICU Melani is where she belongs!!! The last 246 days have been the hardest but its all over!! YAY!

We are going to room in with Melani tonight and tomorrow night and she is finally coming home Thursday! Exactly 8 months to the day that she changed our lives!!

Rooming in with melani and she has been asleep almost all day and all night. She loves being with mommy and daddy! Cant wait until she is home!

First night rooming in with Melani is going okay. She has been fussy throughout the night and its only 430 am. Woohoo....lol. Hope the day goes smoothly.

Yay!! They are going to extubate Melani in the morning!!! She is off of nitric and is on 34% oxygen!!!