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The Fab Five

Welcome Home, Britton Grace…We’ve Been Waiting For You

7 Comments 18 April 2009

She’s home!! Enough said…? No, of course not!

Britton Grace came home today, weighing in at 6 pounds, 1 ounce…probably more than 3 pounds less than Jack and 1.5 pounds less than the next smallest, Lila Addison. She is a dainty little thing and she’s going to be high maintenance for awhile, but oh my gosh is she cute!!! The acid reflux thing is definitely going to be tough to manage so please keep the prayers coming for her (and us!). She is on a three hour feeding schedule (the others are now on four hours), Casey and I are the only people allowed to feed her, she has to be held upright for at least 45 minutes after she eats, and if she doesn’t eat enough, Casey and I will have to put a tube down her nose to get her the rest of her bottle…not easy. Goodbye to the little sleep we were getting… ;-)

I’ve got to say that despite the challenge that lies ahead, we are so relieved and happy to have Britton home with us. Today was her three month NICU anniversary – far longer than we ever expected – and it was getting really difficult to get up there to see her. It’s also so gratifying to finally have our whole family under one roof…can you tell by the smiles on our faces?? We had a lot of fun taking these pictures…good times today and many good times to come!!

I’m going to bed now…zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz….

God Bless,
Ethan

The Fab Five

Baby Bright Eyes is Coming Home!!

6 Comments 14 April 2009

Yeah…Britton is coming home on Saturday!!!! We are so excited to finally have the fab five together under our roof!! Hopefully this is one of the last pictures of our little spa girl getting the royal treatment in the NICU… :)
She is still working through the reflux and having some trouble feeds, but she has shown some improvement since her Prevacid dosage was doubled. Hopefully by the time Saturday rolls around she will have ended her battles with the bottle. However, if she has not done so, she is still coming home with us after we get trained on how to insert a feeding tube in case we are not able to feed her a full amount on a consistent basis. Feeding tube or not, we are really excited to have our baby girl home with her sisters and brother!! Please continue to pray that she will respond to the medication and outgrow this little issue sooner than later!!

God Bless,
Ethan
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The Fab Five

Four Down, One to Go…Welcome Home, Ryan Elizabeth!!!!

7 Comments 25 March 2009

We have quads today, and probably no more than that for the next few days at least. The baby of the family, the last born, Baby E, Ryan Elizabeth, came home today…yeah!!!! Her final NICU weight was six pounds, two ounces; not bad considering she is supposed to have been born two days from now. That leaves only our little social butterfly, Baby Bright Eyes Britton, still to make the journey home. She is doing well, but hasn’t yet mastered the bottle…we just hope she makes it home in time to celebrate her first Christmas with the family… ;-)

Oh yes, one more thing…Eliot has decided on nicknames for three of the four. We’ve not got Lila Bear, Prince Jack, and Ryan the Lion. I guess she’s still working on Britton’s and Brooklyn’s names, but she’s off to a great start!
God Bless,
Ethan

The Fab Five

Three Down, Two to Go…Welcome Home, Brooklyn Faith!!!!

6 Comments 23 March 2009

Today, we have triplets. Probably on Wednesday, we’ll have quadruplets. Who knows when we’ll actually have quintuplets since Britton doesn’t seem to want to come home anytime soon!! Brooklyn came home today, weighing in at six pounds, five ounces, and quickly settled into her new home. I think she was happy to see Jack and Lila, don’t you? :)
God Bless,
Ethan

The Fab Five

Twins Today, Triplets Tomorrow…Welcome Home, Lila Addison!!!!

3 Comments 22 March 2009

Sorry for not updating sooner…we are in major transition in the Jones household, as you might imagine, which means the blog had to take a back seat, unfortunately. Well, as you know, Jack was the big winner and came home on Tuesday, leaving his sisters behind to battle it out for second, third, fourth, and eventually fifth place in our little race. It’s been a fun, busy, exciting, stressful, tiring, and sometimes dizzying week as we welcomed our little man to the house and finalized preparations for the final four to find their way home. Jack is doing very, very well as he continues the pattern he established in the NICU – eat, sleep, sleep some more, eat, and sometimes poop. He is on a three hour feeding schedule, round-the-clock, as his sisters are which means we have kissed our nights of restful sleep goodbye for now.
Though he will always be the little king of the castle, Jack’s solo flight has come to an end as today we welcomed home Lila Addison…we now have twins under our roof!! Little Lady Lila, weighing in today at 5 pounds, 10 ounces (nearly two pounds smaller than Jack!) arrived around 3:00 this afternoon and has been sleeping ever since. She has been enjoying some cuddle time with Jack in the Boppy on the couch next to me for the last hour or so…I guess they missed each other!

Tomorrow, our little brood will grow from twins to triplets as Brooklyn is expected to come home with us around noon! And in an interesting twist of scheduling, Casey and I will be on our own tomorrow night with the three…pray for us, brothers and sisters!! Thankfully, help arrives on Tuesday when my mom makes it to town just in time to welcome home Ryan on Wednesday! That just leaves Baby Bright Eyes Britton to finally conquer the bottle and make her way home…hopefully before the others start crawling… ;-)

I have to ask for you all to continue to pray for our family as the transition begins and we start putting the planning into action. Casey and I are excited, yes without a doubt, but we are also pretty stressed these days. The babies are absolutely beautiful and perfect in every single way…but all you parents out there know just how crazy things can be with a little one in the house! We are absolutely focused on making everthing about this experience a positive and uplifting one for our family and we need your help in making that happen! Please pray for peace of mind for Casey and I, understanding and patience for Eliot, health and growth for the babies, and a little sleep for all of us!!

Thank you all again for your support and prayers and for helping to fill the Fab Five’s lives with so much love!!!
God Bless,
Ethan

The Fab Five

Welcome Home, Jack Jones!!

8 Comments 17 March 2009

And the winner is Jack William, standing alone on the winner’s podium!! As late as 9:30 this morning, we thought Radiant Ryan was coming home today with Jack, but a phone call from the NICU quickly dashed those dreams. Ryan had a significant heart rate drop at some point last night which means she won’t be coming home for at least five more days. Of course, we were disappointed, but at the same time I must admit that we were pulling for Jack all along. The girls will soon be ruling this roost so it’s only fair that our only boy should get some quiet time alone with the three of us before the girls take over!

At this point, however, it’s anyone’s guess as to who will be next. It appears that Ryan is now at the back of the line with Britton, but who knows? Lila is out until the weekend, at least, because of her heart rate drop just two days ago. And Brooklyn? Well, the little girl who was the biggest on delivery day isn’t real fond of the bottle. Until she decides to start working a little harder at eating, she’ll be a Seton resident along with her sisters. I can’t remember the last time Britton had a heart rate drop, but she’s not taking the bottle real well either. So the race for second place will continue…

Despite the setback with Ryan, it was a pretty good day for the Jones family! We picked Jack up around 2:00 at the NICU and headed for the house, picking Eliot up from school along the way. I ran out to get some work done on a remodel project I started yesterday while Casey and Eliot got the little guy settled in. Eliot did AWESOME!! She was little miss helper with anything Jack needed. If Jack was sleeping, she was giving us status updates about every ten minutes or so…”Mama, he’s squeaking!!” She helped prepare bottles, she held the bottle a while during one of the feeds, she helped rock him in the swing, and she also held him for a bit. To top it off, she even read him a bedtime story complete with showing him the pictures…too cute!!!!

We’re looking forward to getting the girls home – it’s going to be a bit challenging to manage the NICU schedule until they do – but we’re very happy to have our boy home and all to ourselves for the time being!

God Bless,
Ethan

P.S. Big Bad Jack definitely lived up to his name, coming home at a healthy and hefty, by NICU standards, 6 pounds, 13 ounces!

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