catching-up

Long time no post! Well, there's been a lot of sickness, craziness, happiness, etc. I'll try to fill you in :-)

A couple of weekends ago, we decided to go ahead and experiment with bolus feeding for Jenna. For those of you who have no clue what I'm talking about, bolus feeding is manual feeding through a syringe. We usually have Jenna on a feeding-tube with a continuous feed. We (Nick, me and the doctors) decided we should try to take Jenna off the continuous feeding to see if her glucose levels would handle bolus feeds every 2 hours. Well, much to our dismay, her glucose decreased with each hour :-( So, we put her back on continuous feeds for now. She's still young and just needs more time. She has a lot going on inside that little body and time is something we have. We plan on trying again after she's had her palate surgery. Which brings me to our next subject...

We met with Jenna's Maxillofacial/Oral surgeon today to schedule her palate surgery. Mark your calendars for May 6th and remember to pray for little Jenna. Thankfully, the surgery isn't super evasive and will last about as long as her lip correction (about an hour or so). We're going to have her birthday party on the 2nd so that she can enjoy all of her family and friends :-) It's going to be a big blow-out (or so I'm anticipating).

Nick's working on our extra room (formerly the garage). It will be our main area of family time. The television, games, computer, work-out room will hopefully be done by her palate surgery. My parents will be coming to stay with us and this will be their room :-) It's going to be great! Also, we're going to be doing our kitchen!! Woohoo!! Yes, no more tacky, hunter green linoleum, doorless cabinets, and cramped spacing. I'll post pictures gradually :-)

My SIL had her sweet baby this past Monday (on her due date). All of the kiddos (6) have been born on their due date, minus one. She's so beautiful. Go to her blog and read about the birth story and see the pictures!!

Well, that's it for now. I have a futon full of laundry to do...thanks Nick!!