05.22.01

Left work a bit early today to try and get a few last minute things ready for when the twins come home tomorrow. Faith is going to spend the night at the hospital with the boys staying in her room. This will be a good opportunity to spend time with them and still have the support of the nursing staff at St. Luke’s. ( I just can’t speak highly enough about the all of the nurses that we encountered over the past several weeks- ) Before we left for the hospital I started to put the cribs together that we have had stored over at my mom and dad’s house. The problem with storing things for nearly ten years is that invariably pieces turn out to be missing. In the case of the first crib, this was somewhat obvious as the missing piece was the rails that hold one side together. No big deal, we have two cribs and the boys will be staying in the same crib for some time anyway. So I put the second crib together only to find that I was missing a couple of the more necessary screws. Argh. Oh well, I will just have to fix that in the morning before I go pick up everyone from the hospital. So, with visions of buying new cribs, we set of to St Luke’s to get Faith all settled with the twins and then Logan and I went to Babies-R-Us to look at new cribs. I don’t mind using one of our old cribs if I can get the right parts for it, but it would be really nice to have brand new furniture for Keenan and Ronan.
05.21.01
Good News!!! It looks like the boys will get to come home either Wednesday or Thursday of this week!! It turns out that yesterday, Ronan pulled out his feeding tube (again!), this time they decided to leave it out and see how he does without it. It seems he is doing well, so they went ahead and removed Keenan’s as well. We will know more tomorrow, but it looks as if they are finally coming home!
05.20.01
The twins are seemingly doing well. The doctors just won’t give us a time-frame as to when they may be coming home.

Saturday morning, Logan and a few of his friends were playing in the backyard, once again attempting to build a lean-to shanty/fort to play in. Logan asked to borrow a hammer and maybe a couple of nails (”Don’t worry Dad, we won’t nail anything to the tree”…), so I volunteered to give them a little help. A half an hour later with a few cuts from my circular saw and some drywall screws, we christened the new structure “Fort Dragon” It’s a smallish four wall, free-standing fort with a name-plate and a place for the fort’s banner (which the children are in the midst of designing) No roof yet, that will go on either later this week or next weekend.

Matt has the nicest things to say….

Amber has kindly pointed out that I had mis-typed the link to her site. I have made the appropriate adjustments.