August 31, 2008

Anna Update

Anna is recovering nicely. She's all healthy and we're just waiting for her to get the hang of feeding. We're hoping to be coming home sometime this week!


Jake is starting to warm up to his "baby", he even gives her kisses!

A snapshot of one of the many moments I'm holding Anna...

Grandpa came into town to visit with Anna. I think she loves all the attention!


I think Jake likes the attention too!

August 21, 2008

Anna at 12 hours old



Here's a little video clip of Anna when she was about 12 hours old. The tube in her nose was a feeding tube, which we used to feed her until she started nursing.

Anna update: She's 4 days post-op and doing a good job now of maintaining her blood pressure, heart rate and oxygen saturation. Each day has it's ups and downs, but overall she's doing good. If she keeps this up they'll close her chest tomorrow (the surgeons left it open after surgery due swelling and high pressure, happens a lot in surgeries like this). We're getting there slowly but surely!

August 19, 2008

Anna Grace Taylor

Anna Grace Taylor was born on August 13th at 12:02 am. She weighed in at 7 pounds, 7 ounces and was 20 inches long.

Jake came to visit his baby sister when she was a few days old. He wouldn't give her a kiss, but he did share his goldfish with her.

Mother and daughter, hand in hand.
We enjoyed 5 days together in the hospital before surgery. We spent all 5 days holding her!


Anna went into surgery yesterday (Monday), the surgery was a huge success. She's in the Cardiac ICU now and will be for about a week or so (maybe more, maybe less). After the ICU she'll be in a regular room until we go home. We're hoping for a speedy recovery!

August 10, 2008

Jacob is 20 Months Old!

Jacob is 20 months old. It feels like just yesterday he turned 19 months old, time flies!


We went out to celebrate Aunt Karen's birthday (I think it's her 22nd birthday).

Jake being shy!


I thought it would be fun to pull up a chair for Jake to stand on so he could watch me bake. Now all he wants to do it stand on the chair to do anything!


Hey Dude...

Grandma and Grandpa are here! We're all anxiously awaiting the arrival of baby girl taylor!

Family PhotoJake and Daddy