World Prematurity Day

Tomorrow is officially World Prematurity Day, but since today is a week day, Phil and I worked a booth at the hospital and handed out purple ribbons and displayed pictures of our preemies: Josh and Joey. After our clean up we were able to go into the NICU to see the construction that has been going on and say hi to some old friends, which also meant a super big hug from one of my favorite speech therapists! The last pic is of the display, pics of Joey and Josh as babies, and then Joey healthy and happy today. I also decided to put some pics of their first few days and just how tiny they were. I remember hearing that you should put a kleenex box or a 2 liter bottle of pop next to your preemie to give some perspective in pictures as to how tiny a 3 pound baby can be, but I think when you see all of Joey's head in Phil's hand, or Josh's fingers wrapped around one of Phil's, and those tiny little feet you can remember a bit!

Where's Joey? At the ER!

So, Joey started puking Friday around lunch. I had just sat him down to eat, and was bringing the spoon to his mouth when he projectile vomited all over both of us. He continued to barf the rest of the day. On Saturday, he was still barfing, so I called his Pediatrician's office. They suggested I take him to the ER because he was in danger of becoming dehydrated.

So that means that yesterday Josh was at Children's and Joey was at Central DuPage. Awesome. Joey and I went back home from the ER after about 4 hours of observation and a little medication. I also have the flu and was on the verge of barfing the whole friggin time. Joey and I are both doing much better today. Thanks to Nonna and Grandpa for helping us so much!

Josh had a bunch of visitors on Saturday. Grandma and Auntie Pam came by as well as Uncle Mark and Auntie Miya. Josh's aunt & uncle got him 3 huge ballons! I'll post some pictures later.