Day 100!

Well it has officially been 100 days since the girls have been in the NICU, what a ride. It shouldn't be too much longer now before the they get to come home with us. Kennedy is still eating like a champion. They have her still eating every three hours but she can eat however much she wants. Whatever she doesn't drink they won't give her through her tube anymore, because she doesn't have the tube anymore if you can see! She is still on about .5 liters on her oxygen flow but only 25-30%, which means she is close on that too because she has to be on .1 at the most before they will let her come home. As for Karsyn, we are starting to make some progress on the feeds as well. The nurses and doctors thought that she may be tongue tied so they had an ENT doctor come in and look and he thought she was too. So he clipped the little flappy thingy, which they said is pretty painless, and hoped that would help her eat. They also decided that we needed to challenge her a little bit and because she is about 6lbs 6oz she can now too eat every three hours still, but she can decide how much she wants to have. This was just yesterday so we will give them both a few days on this and then if they do well with it, continue to gain weight, they will let them be totally ad lib which means they will let them wake up on their own and eat whatever they want, just like normal newborn!!! So that's the news, they are still in the crib together and seem to like it together. Kennedy is still the really really fiesty one and Karsyn seems pretty laid back and mellow, although they say she definately has her moments. We will keep you updated but hopefully it won't be much longer, maybe this next week!!!

As for Logan, she is going into the doctor herself today because,well her 3 year well baby check, and also because she seems to have either croup or bronchitits. She woke up yesterday and had a really barky cough and a slight fever so I called the doctor,since she needed to have her 3 year check up anyway, to schedule an appointment. The doctor wasn't in yesterday so we scheduled for today which was fine because he cough and fever went away. It was gone all day until about 4:00 I went to the grocery store and she fell asleep in my arms at the register. Thank goodness I had been talking to an old friend, Kristy Mortensen's, mom and she helped me with putting my stuff on the belt and then bagging it. You know that is the stupid thing about Wal Mart, they don't ever offer to help even when they see I have a 30 lb toddler, dead weight, in my arms and I am trying to do it myself. Anyway she slept for about 2 more hours and it came time for Kurt and I to go to the hospital so I called my dad and he came down here to watch her while we went. By this time she had started burning up again and could barely breathe, my dad just about took her to the doctor while we were gone because she was having such a hard time breathing. Anyway, I wouldn't have known this because when we walked in she had just gotten up seconds ago and was playing like she wasn't sick at all. We still had her sleep in our bed,just in case, and about 3:30am she woke up really sick again. Anyway, I have her an appointment this afternoon so we will see how she feels and what the doctor says. Maybe I won't be seeing the twins today because I don't want to take anything up to them or have whoever is babysitting Logan get sick.