Miles apart

Callie and Amanda continue to stay in Kansas City while I'm home in Marshall tonight. It's tough to be separated from them, but work, the high price of gas and a need to make sure the house was still standing demanded that I come home.

We may all soon be making the trip to Marshall before too long though. Ella is on 22cal breastmilk and Saxon is on 24cal breastmilk. I'm not sure what that means in real numbers, but it means they are basically getting 1/2 of their milk from the breast and half from the feeding tubes. The nurses think they will be completely off the tubes in the next week or so.


(The girls hanging out in K.C.)

Ella weighs 4lbs 13oz (2 ounces shy of her birth weight) and Saxon weighs 3 lbs 11 oz. The nurses say they are both growing well.

The babies are wearing clothes now and moved out of their incubator beds into cribs. I haven't seen them yet, but I will when I go to Kansas City Friday night.

Even though the Ronald Mcdonald house is wonderful, Callie says it will be good to go home. She thought about coming home earlier, but decided today to stick it out until the babies are ready.