Lance came home from the hospital yesterday! We are soooo glad to be home as a family for the first time since he was born.

To give a brief update of the last several days, Lance was doing well and supposed to go home on Thursday. Wed. night they moved him from NICU to a regular room and the new monitors caused his vital signs to be misread and made him appear to relapse. This little incident put another 3 days onto our stay, and many other tests – all of which came out positive and proved that Lance was indeed a normal, healthy little boy – praise God!

Almost time to go! Amy was supposed to be recovering and not walking everywhere so she was assigned a wheelchair which Brian enjoyed pushing….

The nurse is taking off his IV after his last antibiotic – the last “line” to come off, making him totally ours!

Daddy gets Lance loaded in his car seat – we had to put it on the smallest setting.

Mommy is given her supply of milk. Since Lance was not allowed to eat the first few days, Amy got a head start and makes way more than he can eat! Brian has started to “moo” during feeding times.

We made it home yesterday evening. Brian was really sweet and unloaded everything, put things away and generally ran around being busy. I bathed Lance – which wasn’t his favorite activity – then Brian dressed him and played with him while I got ready. He fussed for a while at bedtime and Brian played dad again by holding him and finding his pacifier multiple times and keeping him quiet while I rested. We finally all settled down for the night and managed to get some sleep. We had a little play time this morning with Lance – he would scoot around on Brian’s chest and raise up his head. We both think he’s the cutest little thing in the world! Praise God for bringing us through the unexpected and for giving us a beautiful, perfect baby boy.

Thanks so much for your prayers while we were in the hospital. We are grateful to God for His healing hand on Lance’s lungs!

Okay, more pictures of the little guy!

Here he is with his hair all fixed up – Mom and Grammy were having fun with him.

He really doesn’t like his nasal cannula and keeps trying to pull it out -he’s getting quite sneaky!

Proud Daddy!

Mom and Lance

And here’s a little smile! He’s such a cutie!

Thanks so much for the prayers and encouraging comments on the last post! God has moved in several ways to boost my spirits since then.

First off, my dad and brothers were able to shift flights on their way home from Haiti and ended up making their overnight lay-over in Dallas instead of Florida so we were able to pick them up and enjoy them for the evening! We got to hear all the stories and see pictures and taste a few new foods. So the evening passed quickly and in good company.

Then today I spent some serious time with God and my Bible and came up with the thought that I should smile with each contraction and praise God for them instead of fighting against the pain, because each one was bringing the baby closer.

This evening, we had our midwife appointment and guess what – Brian and I weighed exactly the same amount!!!! We wished we had brought the camera to document the momentous occasion. The midwife also gave an encouraging report that all the contractions I had been having had made some progress, the baby had “dropped” and my iron was up into the good range!

Wow, so much good stuff all at once – Brian and I were really pumped and praised God. We then went and walked around the mall (the weather is too nasty to walk outside) and I’m taking some herb stuff that will either slow the contractions and let me sleep or finish me off into real labor.  I think Brian is getting the nesting syndrome though – he just washed the car, cleaned up the bathroom and vacuumed!