Today we are taking you home from Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines where you spent 4 days in the NICU with what the doctors have determined was a viral infection that gave you intestinal difficulties. We were worried for a few days and now are just happy that you are back to your normal self: sleeping soundly most of the time, squirming happily, quietly looking around for a couple hours of wakefulness, downing your bottles and complaining mightily when we change your diaper.

Our 2nd trip home from the hospital has taught us just how much we have to be thankful for and how many caring people we have in our lives. We really liked the doctors and nurses at the hospital but hope to never see them again (at least not in their professional capacities). We vote for no more trips to the hospital where you get an armband!