Hello all!!
It's been a few days since I last posted an update, and we have been focusing on getting Maizy to eat on her own, as this is the last hurdle to overcome before we can get home! We were warned in the beggining that alot of times this is what holds up families from going home. Namely because Maizy wasn't able to eat at all until after her surgery and recovery. We are roughly day 5 of feedings and we started off on the first day with Maizy eating roughly 1-5 ml out of 60 ml from her bottle, but we are happy to say that today she totally rocked it, at one point she drank 50 ml out of 60 on her own. This of course wore her out and she averaged about 25 ml on her own each other feeding. So we are making great progress!!
Maizy has had more visitors as well, and people are now able to hold her! My mom was able to come up on Friday,(after somehow taking roughly 30 minutes to park...apparently she parked in Lawrence) and we have had numerous others come by and say hello as well! Grandma Rhonda was camped out by her bedside today, no doubt reading her World War II novels or showing her how to cross-stitch. Piper will be going back with Grandma RaRa for a bit this week so she can be back home for a little while.
Piper and Daddy have been spending alot of time together lately so mommy and Maizy can work on eating, (eventhough it is worth noting that I am in fact the one who fed her the 50 ml...I am the bottle feeding champ!!) So we have certainly had some adventures to say the least. Recently we went the Trek bike shop here in KC, so Piper could pick out a new bicycle for her birthday. She picked out a bright yellow Strider bike (its essentially a balance bike, it has no pedals, she just uses her feet) with pink streamers! She was a hit at the bike shop, as she took off running and returned with an $80 helmet explaining that she needed a helmet too! I explained to her that in fact she already had a helmet, she paused for a second handed me the helmet and took off again. I followed her over to the high dollar road bikes where she promptly pointed at a bike and said "I want that one daddy," it was a $4,000 carbon fiber road bike....yeah I want one too Piper!!
We checked out the Legends yesterday afternoon/evening so she could run around and see the animals and fish at Cabelas. We probably walked in circles from the animals to the aquariums no less than 10 times, she just rode in the basket and pointed out to me all the animals and what sounds they made. She also later that evening, with some prompting from dad, told mommy that she wanted a benelli shotgun...it actually came out "nelli please mommy......." that a girl!!!
We then went and ran around the outside shopping area and then had dinner just her and dad. She stopped in the middle of dinner put down her fork and started to point at her cheek, I couldn't figure out what she wanted...then I realized she wanted me to give her a kiss on the cheek, you bet kiddo, I can do that.
Numerous trips to Trader Joes, Target ,other area bike shops, and coffee shops and Piper still wants to hang out with me, so I would say things are going good with Piper and daddy time. It's worth noting that we have officially been in KC long enought that we have had to purchase essentials that we stocked up on before we left, q-tips, contact solution, toothpaste, and have gone through 2 and half bars of soap, shampoo and shaving cream...who keeps track of that kind of stuff you ask? Traci does....that who. As a side note we also have gone through 3 shower poofs....apparently they are 2 for $1 at Target for a reason and when those pieces of junk unravel....they are no less and 50 feet of shower poof material...
For those of you who don't know Piper's birthday is July 15th, which as I type this is roughly an hour and a half away. Spending it in KC under these circumstances is certainly not what mommy and daddy would have chosen for her second birthday. We are lucky that we have such an amazing little girl/big sister who just goes with the flow and does what ever we need to do. She is an fantastic, and sweet little girl, I can see already that she is genuinely just a good soul, she says hello to everyone, waves at people and almost always has a smile on her face....unless we are getting close to naptime!! She has made friends with people no matter where we go, from the coffee shop to the bike store, to the hospital cafeteria to the NICU....everyone knows and loves Piper. Someday in the future when she is all grown up we will look back on this and I will thank her for being there for all of us, she made us laugh with all her goofiness and smileas, and made us cry with how loving and gentle she is with Maizy.
Tonight we had her birthday dinner with Grandma RaRa at Lulu's noodle shop. Lulu's has been one of our main restaurants we go to when the cafeteria food is not bearable one more time, but we don't want to venture out too far. Piper has taken quite a liking to Thai food! So we had thai food, (yes grandma RaRa had Thai food as well!!) and then we had birthday cupcakes that were special made for her by a very nice lady in the bakery at Hy-vee. She loved the cupcakes, but even more than the cupcakes, she loved blowing out her candles....roughly 50 times. Mommy barely had enough time to eat her cupcake b/c she kept having to relight the candle so Piper could blow it out again. She also wished each one of us individually a happy birthday as she blew out her candles. While it wasn't the big birthday bash we would have wanted, (we plan to have that in August) it was a good time and we were with each other, and that's all that matters. One of these days we will take Maizy to Lulu's so she can share in the experiecnce as well.
So in closing thanks again to all of you for all your love, we couldn't have done it without every little bit from every single one of you. Keep praying and stay happy!
We love you all!
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