Celebration

What a week...sigh. I want to thank everyone for their prayers for our family. Saturday was a really tough day for us, but it also was a beautiful one. We are so blessed to have had the precious time we had with Sky. We want to publicly thank Michelle Enebo for dropping everything on Saturday and spending hours capturing our last day with Sky through the most beautiful photographs. We will truly treasure these stunning photos forever. God made sure that we had the most amazing team for that day. Dr. Beckstrom was the neonatologist and was absolutely fabulous! Glenda was Sky's day nurse and Kristen was his night nurse. We really couldn't have asked for more. 

As for how we are doing...well, we all have our moments but we're going to get through this and be ok. The NICU staff has been amazing this week and we are so blessed to have such wonderful people caring for our family. We are going to have a private celebration for Skyler this weekend and we're looking forward to what God has in store for our family's future.

When we arrived on Sunday, Kell was moved to a new room. I just couldn't stand the thought of sitting in the old room everyday without Skyler. The staff moved not only Kell and all of his stuff but our personal things as well. His new room is smaller but we all like it a lot. It much brighter than the old one with two windows and has a nice calm energy. The room is so quiet without Skyler's oscillating ventilator vibrating loudly. While it is more peaceful it is also hard to get used to being in such a quiet room. I made Kell a special valentine edition sign for his room door. Skyler's name is on a heart with angel wings, very fitting since he's our little angel now.

Keller has had a great last couple of days and was extubated off of his ventilator and put onto a hi flow nasal cannula around 8:30 this morning. He has done really well so far and is not receiving any extra oxygen just extra pressure to help keep his lungs from collapsing. Yesterday, he gave me a little scare with his lower than normal heart rate (it was still in the normal range it was just not as high as he normally is so I was worried) but it is back to his normal today. I got to hold him today and it was once again an awesome experience. I loved getting to listen to his little squeaks as he cuddled into my chest. He has a mini pacifier that he loves to suck on and he spent much of his time with me sucking away on it. It seriously is the cutest thing listening to his little sucking noises. Asher was with us today while I was holding Kell and man was he jealous! Once Kell was back in his little isolette I held Asher for a few minutes to give him a turn with mommy. We're all so thankful for Kell's progress this week and are praying that it continues. 

Thanks again for all of your love, support, & prayers for our little guy!

Lots of Love,

Shelly