Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The latest..

Aven has had two room-air oxygen tests so far. This is a test designed to see if she can maintain her oxygen saturation above 80 percent for a period of 40 minutes. They will consider letting her go home with a monitor if she makes it to 30-35 minutes. So far she has only held out for 2 and 3 minutes respectively. Other then her breathing, she is eating the correct amount and has gained enough weigh to come home. It's hard to be patient when today she is 4 months old already and still not home.

Ethan is excited to be going back to school starting next Monday, the 24th. He is taking a lot of classes but still only 12 credit-hours to try and boost his GPA up so he can make it into the business school to start taking classes more specialized for his Computer Information Systems degree. He also has a kidney stone!! Currently he has had it for almost 48 hours. The docs say that the largest stone you can pass is 5 mm and right now his is 4.5mm, lucky huh? He is anxiously awaiting passing it to get on with living w/o being in constant, agonizing pain. No, really it's awful..

Brandy is still working from home on Mondays and Fridays and Isis is loving to go see baby sister with mom whenever the opportunity arises. He sings her songs and loves to hold her. Aven has smiled for everybody but dad btw. We appreciate every body's support and prayers through this long and trying time to get Aven back home with us. Your continued support is a blessing and we appreciate it every day. Thanks again and we'll try to keep this dang thing updated a little bit more frequently!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Update desperatly needed

So we have not updated in a while. Aven is 6lb 9 oz and should be home next week. Ethan is going back to school on the 24th. And I am looking forward to time at home with both kids