Part 1 of the BEST HALLOWEEN Ever!

PICTURE OVERLOAD! I hope you are ready for pictures because there is A LOT! Get ready for the best Halloween ever!

"Hey Mama, thanks for letting me be naked!" Nurse M decided we needed to have a moment with no diaper! She loved it!

Earlier this morning she wore her pumpkin hat, until she woke up for her photo shoot.

"Hey give me back my binki!" Nurse M took her binki and she just followed it. It was so cute.

Naked photo shoot!!!! Look how cute.

She was so hungry! She was crawling away! :)

She wanted her food! And it was good we waited because she nursed really well.

My sweet baby!

She loves that binki!

This is a framer! :)

Nurse M with Olivia getting ready for her first Halloween adventure!

My beautiful baby girl!

What a photo shoot. Thank you Nurse M, Nurse B and Nurse

SUPER OLIVIA! Her and her triplet friends were all super heros! They were all so cute!

Even super heros need a binki once in awhile.

She loves her tutu. So does the whole unit. She is so very loved.

Ready for my jammies. She's wearing the PJ's that Grandma Nae bought her and she's adorable in them.

Look how big I am! 4 POUNDS 16 INCHES! She's huge!

CHUBBY cheeks!

HAPPY 2 MONTH BIRTHDAY

 August 28, 2011
1 pound 12 ounces

12 1/2 inches long

September 28, 2011
2 pounds 5 ounces
14 inches

October 28, 2011
3 pounds 12 ounces
15 1/8 inches

Go Olivia go!!!!! 

We LOVE you baby girl.

Sorry for the Delay

LOTS OF PICTURES BELOW... ENJOY

Baby Shower #2 at Aunt Laura's House

Aunt Laura and my Mom making ribbon sandwiches for the shower! They were so cool. The shower was great and I am so thankful for my aunt and cousin and mom who helped put it together, they are the best. Love you girls.

That's the bread Aunt Laura is cutting. It was pink, yellow, green and orange bread! Super sweet.

 

There is Steph!

The shower was fun and I had a lot of family and friends come. The greatest surprise is when my Aunt Joan from Oregon showed up! It was a wonderful surprise and I am so grateful that she would come all the way out to Utah to be at the shower. Thank you Aunt Joan, LOVE YOU! OH, and I guess I should give my mom so credit, she kept it a secret. Good job mom!

OLIVIA

This pose is like the one I took a few weeks ago, but now she is bigger! 

Numbers for October 26, 2011 (HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA ROY)

3 1/2 Pounds

15 1/8 Inches

High Flow of 3!

Non-nutrative nursing 2 times a day (as of this evening she can nurse normal twice a day)

Approximately 30 calories of food every 3 hours (28 mL)

Cuddling with Dad! a

She must have been having a good dream because she is pulling a cute face there. The blanket she has is her tag blanket from Ashley! She loves it so much and sleeps with it everyday. Love you Ash!

Laying with Mom today! She's getting so big.

What a sweet girl. You can she her little bald spot!

Her hand is bigger then my ring!

She loves laying with her Dad and she loves getting out of her blankets! She's keeping her body temperature up though. Before we know it she will be in an open crib.

She was so pooped after she nursed today. She nursed on booth sides for almost 10 minutes a side! That is amazing for a baby her size. Lactation specialist (KA) was so happy. She's a great help and has been so supportive through all of this pumping a waiting stuff.

Totally sleeping on her Mom! (That's me!)

That hair band is made by me! It matches her...

TUTU!  Also made by me, with the help of HUC S!

It's part of her Halloween costume, you'll have to wait and see! :)

These are two of my favorite people right here. What a lucky girl I am to get both of them! They are wonderful. Love you both so much.
Thank you all for following this blog and caring so much about us. Your prayers mean more to us then we can describe. I can't believe we are starting the end of our journey here at the NICU. Time has flown by and at the same time I feel like I've been here for ever. Someone asked us the other day if we lived her and it took me a second to respond. Oh, dear Cedar City I still love you even if you snow in October. :) Well friends and family I'm gonna go feed my baby! Love you all.

Pictures of Miss Olivia

 Taking a little nap with dad. Tayce holds her at night and I hold her in the morning. I can't wait until I get to pick her up whenever I want too. 

 She's getting so big.

PUMPKIN HAT

 Precious girl

 Binki baby!

 The first article of clothing she wore was this bib!

There she is! We keep trying to see if she looks like either of us. She had Tayce's eyes we think. 

Olivia is doing well. She is growing and doing great. The doctors and nurses are very happy with her success. She's even been pooping without help the last few days. Her feeding is now 25 mL over an hour instead of 90 minutes and she's handling it well. The pressure on her high flow is at a 4! and so far so good. She's just decided to be a big girl. We love her so much and are so excited to be on this journey with her. Love you all, have a great weekend!

WOW 50

I can't believe we've been in the hospital for over 50 days! WOW! What a journey we've embarked and really it's been okay. I have learned so much already. I've learned about me, about relationships, about doctor/nurse stuff, about being a mom and so much more. Olivia is my miracle and I thank my Heavenly Father for giving me her. Her personality is so fun and the bigger she gets the more she interacts, which is so much fun.

This is her first picture after she got high flow, she totally was trying to figure it all out. I loved watching her after RT G took off the CPAP and put the high flow, she was just waiting for someone to put all that junk on her head again, but we didn't! WAHOO!

There is her bare face, chubby cheeks an all. Her face looks so different from day to day. You can tell it's her, but sometimes she looks so different.

Some of this girls poses are hilarious. Now that she is over 31 weeks she gets to have the window open in the day to let the sunshine in, which is way nice. Nurse T opened the window and her hand went to her face to block the sun, what a smart girl. It's a darling picture though and to tell you the truth she's always doing things like this, making the whole unit laugh. :)

Miss Olivia loungin in her pumpkin patch. Nurse T let her have a pumpkin patch bed and let her wear her pumpkin hat. She just laid down and up goes her hands all relaxed.

At night time she gets to cuddle with her daddy. Here she is wide eyed and beautiful. When we got in tonight she was wide awake and just stared at me as I talked to her. She loves being talked to when she's awake, but don't be messing with the queen when she's asleep... she get cranky.
We are doing skin to skin or kangaroo care twice a day now with her. The occupational therapist came and looked at her yesterday and there are a few concerns. One she gets a little irritated when she is touched, she needs to learn to like to be held and touched. When these little ones come and live in the NICU they start to associate touch with negative things, so now it is our job to reverse that. Second she arches her back a lot which can affect her development down the road with rolling over and things, so we are watching that and last we are going to start doing some massages with her to help her relax her muscles (and it will help with positive touch). Really though she is doing well, we just have to be aware of the things that can occur with babies born as early as her. 

Look at that chubby hand! She is just growing so much. She just looks like a miniature baby for sure.

Stretching on daddy's belly. Right now as I type Olivia is snuggled up asleep on her daddy. She was wide awake and got her wiggles out and then she snuggled in and fell asleep. I don't blame her, I love cuddling with him also. :)

Family picture! Thank you nurse W! Sometime soon we are going to hold her up and get a family picture with all of our faces, so be waiting for that friends!
Love you all so much. Thanks to all of you who watch this blog and care so much. It is so nice to know that we can live in a world with crumby stuff, but still be surrounded by such goodness. Love and appreciate you all.
Here are some numbers for those who want them:
51 days old (gestational age is 32 weeks!)
15 inches long
1481 grams or 3 pounds 4 ounces !
High flow with a pressure of 6 (at a pressure of 2 she gets to start nursing)
25mL of milk an hour (approximately 30 calories an hour)