It has been a couple of days since I have written...

It has been a couple of days since I have written.

The girls are holding firm.

Miss Emma is now 2 lbs. yahoo!!!! She is staying the same with her lungs- which we will take. When the day is not worse, it's a good day. Yesterday, Emma pulled out her ventilator tube. Nice... They quickly put it back in. All the nurses comment on how fiesty she is and how she does not like to be touched. It is so true! It's like on that movie "Apple Dumpling Gang". There is a boy on there named Clovis. Everytime someone puts their hand on his head, Clovis hauls off and kicks him. Then his brother says "Clovis don't like to be touched". Emma is Clovis.

She is just like Alyssa was with doing things in her own time. She is very stubborn and will come when she says it is time, not us or the dr.s. After Alyssa's open heart, they couldn't stablize her for 3 days and it got to the point where the dr.s told me they didn't know if she would live. That night at 2:00 a.m. she went from the worse to fine. They said they had never seen that. All their patients gradually get better. Alyssa just went from one extreme to the other. So maybe Emma will just one day decide it is time to take over. : ) Emma is doing very well with her feeds and stools. So we just keeping taking it day by day.

Miss Olivia is now 3 lb. 2 1/2 oz. Doing very well. She is on the verge of everything - getting off of oxygen with her nose canula. She is at 3 liters at 23%-25%. She is close to trying a bottle. She is in big girl clothes and is close to going to a crib. Mike held her for the second time last night. She has soooooooooo much hair!!! I know I shouldn't be suprised but I am. She is 120% Mike. Looks just like you are looking at him.

I think Emma will be in the NICU for at least 6-8 more weeks. Olivia - I think will be in there another 4 weeks. That is mostly my opinions and feel for what is going on. The twins will be 32 weeks tomorrow.

Mike and I took a much needed day off and went to Starved Rock yesterday. We knew that our gas tank was on empty so to avoid any nervous breakdowns, we decided to refill a little. It was a gorgeous day! We got to see some beautiful sights. When we got back, we went and saw the girls. We might need to take a couple breaks here and there.

Have a Great Day!!