January 11th, 2010

Kierson is at 29 weeks gestational age (yesterday).

Deitre showed up to visit Kierson today and had the pleasant surprise of getting to see her first bath. It's so hard to believe that just 6 days ago she was on the ventilator and not doing well. But now, she is completely breathing on her own. She still requires supplemental oxygen, though.

This is Kierson right after her first bath. Her hair is really becoming much lighter in color. She weighs in at 2 lbs now and not much longer than a brand new pencil.

Kierson's older sister, Emmerson, continues to do so many firsts (for those who do not know, we adopted Emmerson back in June, 2009. We had the privilege of being in the delivery room at her birth and got to go home with her a few days later. Four weeks later, we found out we were pregnant. This was only 6 weeks after our 3rd miscarriage and several unsuccessful rounds of IVF). Back to Emmie....

Emmie is growing so fast, 'talking' all the time and is such a smiler! She is very active and extremely contented little one, hardly ever fussy (which is such a blessing). She is just over 7 months old now and going to be a great older sister to Kierson. Emmerson got kinda spoiled this Christmas as she is the first grand-child for Deitre's folks.