well hello

now that it is getting somewhat nicer out I'm able to venture out some with Kenna. We are all doing good. We have had a long winter locked inside due to the RSV season, and actually are suppose to still be on lock down until the end of April. Then we are as free as the birds again until October for MaKennas second winter. The frist two winters are the hardest on preemies, which we already knew that, but we are being more careful with Kenna then we ever were with the twins.

We went to her 4 month post nicu check in February and got a wonderful report from them. She is only behind in a couple area and still has a lot of her preemie tone left. All normal! Since then she has caught up to where she should of been for the screening, by rolling both ways and laughing. And she can finally sit unassisted for about 3-4 minutes. Which is huge for her. Her newest trick she learned just last week and that is how to army crawl. While I'm very happy to she her progress, I'm also sad, because she is the last one. However to see her today and remember just how far she has come in 8 short months, it a true blessing and a constant reminder of what God has giving to our family.

The other kids are doing well also. Madison is just finishing up the 3 quarter of school and has done well in the 1st grade all A's so far. William and MaKayla are both registered to start kindergarten in the fall and are so excited!! Kayla however is not a huge fan of the "bus", its to noisy. I guess she better get use to it, shes got a long ride!! All three will be playing T-ball and baseball this summer so it should be an interesting one.

I will have to upload some pictures a different day because I forgot the card at home, sorry.

2 posts in 2 days!!

So how do those look? Personally I love MaKennas!! So I hope that these will make everyone happy and will keep you happy for the next couple of weeks again. I do hope to post more soon. And If I don't before Christmas again, I hope you all have a Very Merry one!!

Rachelle

how about a new post!!

Sorry guys, but we still have no Internet at our house. I'm to cheap at the moment to have it hooked back up. Live with it!! I'm only kidding!!

We are in Billings again this weekend. The twins have an appointment with their new ENT and MaKenna has a follow up with her cardiologist on Monday. Everyone is doing great. Madison is loving the 1st grade and got all A's on her first report card. William is also doing well in his same school again, this year we added some OT time to increase his fine motor skills. Kayla is at home with me again and loves the extra time with me and Kenna, and she hates working on school work.

MaKenna is doing awesome!! She started room air trials on the 1st of October and has officially been off her oxygen since the 20th of October. She stayed on her monitor until Black Friday, when I finally got annoyed enough with the beeping. Man is it great not to hear that going off all night long! Not to worry her doctor does no and because she hasn't had any apena and bradys (major) for awhile we felt ok. We did have a little bump in the road last month when she somehow caught Influenza A! She was a trooper though!! At her 5 month check she weighed in at 11lbs, I thought it was pretty good anyway.
So now what everyone has been waiting for PICTURES!!

We are Home!!

Sorry for the delay!! We have been home since the 1st of September. Kenna came home on oxygen and a monitor and things have been good ever since. She is now weighing 6#6oz as of discharge day. Once I get everything at home hooked back up I will post some pictures and get a longer blog on here.

How about some pictures!!

Well I'm finally able to give you all some pictures of MaKenna. However keep in mind that the last ones taken that are actually on a disk are on July 12. So she is way bigger and differnt now. Not so alien looking! lol I can say that because she is my daughter!!

That will have to do for now someone else needs to get on here!

Just Peachy!!

That is exactly how things are over here. Things for the most part are stable, with just a few of her "attitude moments". I seriously think she just misses her nurses by her side ALL the time! Because once they get closer to her she manages to pull everything back up. Again she is really spoiled in there. I guess that can happen when you are one of 3 babies who have been there for over a month. She is now up to a whole 4# 10 oz as of last night, and 17 inches. And has the cutest chubby checks now! I would love to put some pictures on here, but again I can't because there is no loading stuff onto the computer at the McDonald house! So you ll just have to wait!!

Her feeding are hit and miss, depending on how her days are going, and she is up to 41ml of fortified breast milk and it taking it over 30 minutes. Which is down from the 1.5 hours when she started. Her feedings increase daily depending on her weight gain. They have stopped her caffeine as of last night and so far we really haven't noticed a difference in her. If things start to change the plan is to put her back on it.

That's all the time I have so I hope that everyone is good!!

We have graduated!!

Not so much from the NICU but from the ever so cute micro preemie diapers to the standard preemie ones. I actually used the last one on Monday so this comes a little late!! Sorry! Little "pork chop" is now 3# 15 oz. So hopefully tomorrow I will finally have a 4 pound baby.