This is the amazing journey of our two miracles. John Craig was born on November 30, 2005 at 24 weeks and 5 days gestation. He weighed 1 pound 8 ounces and was 12 inches long. John is a true miracle and an inspiration to all that meet him! Hope Amanda, our perfect little girl, is currently recovering from two brain surgeries to remove a 6cm mass from the center of her brain. Hope represents everything good in this world and she too is an inspiration to all.
For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.
Jeremiah 29.11

Monday, November 27, 2006

John Tidbits!

John is recovering wonderfully. You can see a huge difference in his eyes now. If you look at pictures from this weekend compared to pictures prior to surgery you can really tell how much better they look.

A glance at John's busy week.........Feeding Therapy (I figured I should start calling it feeding therapy opposed to speech therapy because I am constantly getting funny looks or remarks when I say my baby is in Speech Therapy.....NO, he is not learning his alphabet) x2, follow up eye appointment, physical therapy, second round of synagis, and A BIG BIRTHDAY TO CELEBRATE!!!!!!

On Thursday (his b-day) we are going to take John to visit his primary nurse, Jessica and his Neonatologists at Phoenix Children's Hospital.....located in Good Samaritan Hospital. We wish we could see his night primary nurse too (Chris.) However, John is fast asleep before her shift even begins. That's OK though, she comes and visits us at our house and we will see her at John's b-day party this weekend. If it weren't for the two of them I don't know how we would have made it through the NICU roller coaster ride. They loved John like he was their own and they will FOREVER be apart of our life.

I can't wait to show the little man off and give some encouragement to new families.


Aunt Jessica!


Aunt Chris!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Happy 1st Birthday Little Mister. Jaimie and Jill's unconditional love willed John to survive his many tough days in the NICU. I will forever remember them reading to John thru his isolette when he was to fragile for them to even touch him except for a few moments every few hours each day. John is a very lucky little boy to have such a wonderful devoted family. Enjoy a long life my friend with many smiles and lots of love.
CHRIS:)