Nash comes HOME!

 Nash finally had all the tubes removed and I think he heard us talking about coming home in his sleep. I love that little smirk.

Loading up in the van, one month old and he gets to feel the warm sunlight.

After a month of sleepless nights and lots of tears our little man made it home!!!

 It was a super surreal moment, I remember starting the morning off depressed because we had hit the one month mark and there wasn't much talk of him coming home. The day before he had all the tubes removed and we were just praying that he would start eating enough on his own to bring him home. 

At noon our NICU nurse really pushed for our discharge and by 4 pm we were home.

We came home to the posters made by the kids and lots of excitement.

 They couldn't get enough of him.

 They were in awe.

 I finally felt like I could breathe.

 Those first couple days were so special, I would catch Saylor just watching him sleep.

 It was the best feeling in the world to hold him cord free, and just let him snuggle and sleep.

A very special trip..

 After about three weeks, I sought approval for the kids to visit their brother.

The kids I think were starting to feel resentful and needed reassurance that their brother existed.

 Meeting Nash

 Lincoln was schooling the nurse.

Summer Fun 2012

 While Ben had work off we were at the hospital during every daytime feeding, late in to the evenings and then we try to sleep, with our baby not with us and it left us with little energy for the older 3.

When the days starting turning into weeks, with no date to go home, we decided we had to give up a few feedings and spend sometime with the other children.

It proved to be the best decision for our whole family.

 We had went to the beach twice, made lots of ice cream runs, we went bowling once and even let the kids have a sleepover in the girls' room.