All we want for Christmas...

is no more sickness! :)  The girls are doing better now.....and we were actually able to get out of the house today after a very long week!  The NICU has an annual Christmas party for all the NICU graduates so it was soo neat!  Last year over 400 kids came!  Some of the neonatologists dress up as Mr. & Mrs. Clause and then they have all kinds of stuff for the kids to do and see and they hand out gifts and it was so great!  The nurses are there to visit with again and it's really neat to be able to talk to other parents who also had kids in the NICU.  What miracles to see sooo many healthy children running around, knowing that they were all born before 31 weeks.  One other family with triplets were there so it was neat to meet them face to face since we "know" each other through the multiples club.  Anyways, this was the girls' first time to see Santa so we weren't sure what kind of reaction we would get.  But they thought nothing of Santa!  They just sat there like "what's the big deal anyway?"  :)  They were so cute though. :)  

(emily - hailey - addy)

Here we are with the girls' primary nurse Renee.  She was in charge of planning this entire party!  She did amazing!  Her daughter Tessa was even an "elf." So cute! 

And this is sweet Ruth, one of the many volunteers at the NICU.  She never had kids of her own but volunteers to hold all of the babies in the NICU who's parents live far away and can't get there or who's parents don't visit often enough.  I would love to volunteer like this one day!