Stop and Consider the Wonderful things God has done

Happy Labor Day...Hope everyone is enjoying a nice long extended holiday weekend. Landon is off work today and we've enjoyed a relaxed day together with Dylan while taking shifts to go see Kaylan. Doctors  are still working through the right concoction of milk, additives and thickeners to allow Kaylan to continue to complete bottles and gain weight. She's 2 ounces away from 5 pounds! She has good days and not so good days with the bottles. She still gets pretty tired and she's only taking 2-3 bottles a day. The rest of the feeds are administered through the feeding tube. She's now on the lowest oxygen settings available - in fact, she's on the settings she would be on if she went home on oxygen. We're STILL pleading with God that she will NOT have to come home on oxygen. I'm ready for that sweet little face to be TUBE FREE! 

We went to a dinner last night at our church and enjoyed visiting with friends. The focus of the dinner was to acknowledge progress that's been made towards a debt on our church property. I was encouraged to hear the testimonies of God's faithfulness over the past three years as our church has participated in a financial campaign to reduce the debt on the building. One of the nuggets of info that was passed along was that since the campaign began, there have been 116 babies born at The Branch since 2007 - ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN! Wow! Talk about being FRUITFUL! I'm so thankful we're apart of that number. The past three years have had its own set of challenges, but none like what we've experienced over the past 3 months. We continue to plow forward in looking forward to the day that BOTH babies are home and under one roof. Kaylan is officially the most tenured patient in the NICU right now...not one baby has been there longer than her. She's the senior and it's about time for her to graduate! We're approaching their 3 month birthday. It's crazy to think what all has transpired over these past three months. It's easy for me to get frustrated with slow progress with Kaylan but I have to stop myself and focus on the GOOD things that have come from the past three months. For one, Kaylan really (by all accounts) should have never survived, but here she is---closing the gap on five pounds and taking bottles. Dylan, who was also born teeny tiny is now doing fantastic and getting a lot of lovin at home.

We still ask you to pray for Kaylan's progress...she's close, but she's not there yet. Thank you for loving our babies and walking this journey with us.

"Stop and consider the wonderful things God has done." Job 37:14