A day of helping

We have been very blessed today. Amy Crouch cooked us dinner, mowed our lawn, vacuumed our floors, did our laundry and made our beds. It's hard to explain how helpful every little thing like that is. It really helps us to support each other better and to spend more time with Christopher.

Then, Dave and Lizbeth bought us our new freezer! I'll post a pic later. We have to leave it plugged in for 24 hours before we move anything into it, and it couldn't have come a day sooner. Our freezer is TOTALLY PACKED WITH BREASTMILK!! I'm so glad they gave us the freezer. Otherwise I was going to have to start using it on my cereal so we didn't have to throw it away =). My mom is recovering from surgery still, and told me today that it made her feel really good to know that we were in such good hands with friends like these.

Christopher is amazing us again today. This morning, at some time between 3 and 4 am, he finally got his way and pulled out his nasal oxygen. Under the cover of darkness and undetected by the nursing staff, he continued to post great saturation and respritory numbers all throughout the rest of the morning. He's been off the nasal oxygen ever since! In fact, when I got to visit him today at lunchtime the nurse was giving him his first spongebath and he was totally cordless except for the feeding tube. I got to hold him for about 5 minutes that way and it was truly special. And then all the cords went back on =), but at least now they are all just sensors. I'll bring my camera again tomorrow so I can get a good picture. Please pray that he doesn't do the same thing with his feeding tube. Although, I guess he knew the right time with the oxygen, so maybe pray that he yanks it out at the right time.

Rachel continues to struggle with exhaustion and the blues as she is constantly either pumping, studying, or thinking about her baby not being home. We both know that we have so much more to be thankful for than not, and we are SO thankful, but we still have to travel this road together. It's a lot different than anything we imagined and/or planned out as far as how it would go having our first child. Sometimes when I come home it's still hard to believe that I have one. We have a crib, but no baby. Soon though.

If anyone is praying for me to develop patience, you can stop now. =)

--Andy