Monday, October 3, 2011

NICU Carnival!

Sunday, October 2nd was the Shady Grove NICU Picnic! Tim and I were so excited to go and see all of our favorite nurses and show off our little ladies to them! Considering when the girls left the NICU, they weighed between 3lbs 15 ounces and 4lbs 5 ounces...they have grown A LOT! Only one of our nurses has seen the girls in person, a few weeks after they left the NICU!

Unfortunately it was FREEZING and then started to rain! I was so sad and very reluctant to leave but I knew it was best to get the girls out of the 40 degree rain! Tim swore he saw snowflakes, haha! I can't help it I told him to wear a jacket and he had a short-sleeve t-shirt on and a hoodie!

My momma and Madelynn

"The Nanny"/my sissy and Natalee


Claire, blowing bubbles!

If it had been nice, there would have been so many fun things to do...well and when the girls grow up a little. There was numerous moon bounces, a swing-ride, "pick-a-duck" and other cute carnival activities, some entertainment, face-painting, coloring, tattoos....and some food. They also had a family picture tent which was fun too!

Here's our photo:

Not the best photo...but I'll take it for free! They even put it in a little frame, and I will admit that it's the only framed photo I have in the house of the our family!! Whoops...but I am eagerly waiting for my canvas prints to arrive!

I made a bunch of mini pumpkin spice breads to give to the nurses and once again say thank you for doing an angels job! I will never forget our wonderful nurses and doctors who helped save my daughter's lives and I think you can never say thank you enough! They will forever be a part of our family and always in our prayers!



We left about an hour after we got there because the rain was becoming too much and I didn't want to risk the girls getting a cold! No way! Plus the Redskins game was on and so was the Eagles game...so we stopped by Chipolte and home we went! So we only saw a few of our nurses, but hopefully when Little Miss is born in January we can pop into the NICU waiting room and see some more and/or hopefully some of them will come to the girls first birthday party!

1 comment:

  1. You forgot to add that I helped you make those bags for those cakes!

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