Here is a picture I should have posted a while back. Since her very first picture was of her holding a pencil in the NICU, I take a picture of her every month on the 28th. This one was from July.
I will say now that things are officially going smoothly. Don't get me wrong, there are still times we want to pull our hair out but now we know what to expect most of the time. Maybe it was the heat wave making everything crazy. We took Katelyn and Kenlee to their dentist appointment last week. A couple of days before that, Jessica took Katelyn with her to her dentist appointment to show her how it was ok since her previous experiences at the dentist have been embarrassing. Well, it didn't help. It took one of us holding her down including her arms and legs so they could clean her teeth. She was screaming and literally acting possessed. Kenlee on the other hand did pretty good. I was with her and although I had to hold her down, she didn't act too bad. Katelyn just can't handle the whole thing. This time she was due to get X-rays. We almost didn't do that part just because she was so bad during the check-up. After some coaxing and bribery, we decided she could do it. She did much better for this part, so we rewarded them with Dairy Queen for lunch. Both were given good reports and new toothbrushes/toothpaste. Last night we took Katelyn to her orientation at her preschool which starts Monday. She is really going to like it if we can just get past the initial separation when we drop her off. We are not looking forward to that part. She will be going in the AM, Monday-Thursday.
I want to say, Jessica has really impressed me with the whole stay at home mom thing. Thank you to everyone that brought us meals over the last several weeks since we've been home. Now that those are over, Jessica has even started to cook dinner. Her goal is something new every night that I'm home. I know it's aggressive but we'll see. She has been 100% on top of laundry and dishes also which is awesome, especially given the amount of each of those we go through.
Joanna is still doing very well. She went to the pediatrician yesterday for a check up and now weighs 8# 12oz. and is 21 3/4" long. They didn't change anything with the night time feedings, and she still has the feeding tube. We get one day a week without it on the day we change it out. Keeping it taped is always a struggle. If there's one good thing about the feeding tube, it's that she is sleeping through the night pretty much all the time. Kenlee doesn't make it through the night without wandering into our bedroom to get in bed with us. When I got up at 2:30 this morning to fill Joanna's milk, Kenlee was asleep on the floor in the hall outside our door. Sometimes it's on the floor just inside her door. One thing she is never without is her blanket and pink pillow. A lot of times when she wakes up she will start yelling for the person that put her to bed. Jessica called me the other morning and told me she was awakened by Kenlee yelling, Daddy, Dad, Da-da, Daddy down the hall. One of the churches we went to in Cincinnati played this video in service one day. Kenlee often reminds us of this. Check it out here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNkp4QF3we8 .
Lastly, here is a new video by our friend Chris Weatherly. It was created as a small part the One Life Henderson night of worship that is happening tomorrow night 8/21/2010 at the Henderson Fine Arts Center. Check out the video below and get tickets for this event at http://www.onelifehenderson.com/.
Barnard Story from Chris Weatherly on Vimeo.
