Joshua's Journey Cont....

Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Finally were a Family!


Yesterday I got the greatest news EVER!!! The Social Worker from the hospital called and said that all the paper work the mom had signed last Thurs. was sent to their attorney and everything has gone through perfectly!! Which means Michael and I are now the managing conservators of Joshua- WE ARE THE PARENTS!!!!
She said that we can now bring our family and friends into see Joshua, and that I can start kangaroo and working with a breastfeeding consultant there at the hospital. We are the ones that make all the medical decisions for Joshua now, and the surgeons now can talk to Michael and I!!! Joshua will be discharged from the hospital to US!!!! Yay!!!!
This was all so very exciting and I was able to tell my mom that she could FINALLY go see Joshua!
So, I took my mom up there last night first and she got to hold him and video tape me giving him a bath for the 1st time- boy this kid has curly hair when it is wet!
Then, Michael brought Gavyn up there and he got to meet his baby brother for the 1st time!!! It was the MOST PRECIOUS thing you could have imagined!! Gavyn was so careful and tender with Joshua and was SO excited to see him he couldn't stop smiling!! He kept kissing his hand(totally on his own) because he was scared to kiss his head!! So, he just held his hand and kept giving him LOTS of kisses!! At one point, Joshua was stretching and Gavyn said, "Oh, Hi Five!" and touched his hand! He thought Joshua was reaching to give him a Hi Five!- It was so CUTE!! He said over, and over again "Love you baby Joshua- your my brother!"- He screamed when we took him away :( It was sad! He kept screaming, "baby Joshua!"- It broke my heart, but then he settled down as soon as we got to the waiting room. He is going to be SUCH A GREAT BIG BROTHER!!
Then, I took all my sisters and Brandon in one at a time- they all loved Joshua and thought he was SO BEAUTIFUL, which HE IS!

Joshua is still dong AMAZING, and is now is a crib!!! Yay!!! He is now getting 7ml of formula every feeding, I think they have to get up to 10ml before they can start on the bottle. He weighed 5lbs 2oz last night! The bottle is the last thing we are waiting for before we can take him home :) I pray that he will be ready before Thanksgiving, but if not that is ok too. We just want him to be very healthy! The surgeon, Dr. Vaughne told us last night that Joshua is a MIRACLE. So to be on the safe side Joshua qualifies for ECI(sp?), which means that when we take him home we will have 5 specialist and a nurse come out to the house once a month(each one a different week) for awhile, so if anything did happen they can catch it fast! I absolutely love this because it makes me feel more safe that Joshua is being watched closely! So Praise the Lord for that!!!

Thank you all for your prayers!! They are amazing and have carried all of us through this whole process- you really have No IDEA! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
We love you all and ask that you just continue praying that his intestines will keep digesting and he will be able to get on the bottle this week!

Blessings,
Mike, Selah, Gavyn, & Baby Joshua