NICU reunion

Yesterday we loaded up the girls and went to Bethesda to the NICU reunion. It is hard to believe that the girls are nearing their first birthday already and have been home with us for the last 7 of those 10 months. Nov.3 is the weekend we picked to celebrate the girl's birthday. If you are in the area that day please come by around 1pm and say Happy Birthday to them :). Being that the 11th is a holiday weekend, we figured the 3rd would be best.

 

Back to the great time we had at the reunion. We got to see all but 2 or 3 of our favorite nurses and 2 of our favorite docs. Everyone is so pleased with how they are doing and shocked that we have them on such a good schedule. The girls have fallen into a daily schedule that is pretty amazing. They get up around 7-730, nap at 10 and 2-2:30 then, are in bed for the night by 8 or 9pm depending on when they ate their last bottle. 2 of our doctors have young ones themselves and have asked if they can come over to see how we do it. I'm not sure they even believed us 100%. On top of getting to see our nurses and doctors, we got to see our friend Ellie who shares our brithday and was in the NICU Pod we were in. The Malachowski's were also there, they are Air Force friends of ours with twins who  went thru hospital bed rest and the NICU a year or so before us. Nicole and Paul (FiFi and Eeyore) were a huge support to both Jer and I throughout the pregnancy and time in the hospital and really have been just fabulous friends along the way. We took a group photo working hard to wrangle their busy 2 year olds in for the pic (see below).

Us with some of the nurses and Ellie and her mommy.

The girls checking out the grass and leaves.

Chatting with FiFi