Done!

Today is my birthday and I got the best news! Our home care nurse weighed Emma Kate today and guess what? She weighs 10 lbs, 2 oz!!! That means she gained 3 oz since Monday and she's been doing more work eating over the past 48 hours than she ever has in her life! I am so thrilled! I called our pediatrician and gave him an update. He said he was fine with us keeping the tube out and as long as she continues to grow and we don't see and signs of her basically stressing herself we should continue to keep it out!

All day I was hoping for this and I am so thankful that we are finally at this point! It feels great to have a baby without a tube hanging out of her nose. It feels so... normal! I am sure that Emma Kate feels better, too. (Can you imagine having that thing in your nose and down your throat?) I am also glad that she has a chance to feel hungry and want to eat. She never really had a chance to feel that normal, healthy sensation of hunger until the past few days.

Emma Kate is doing so awesome and I'm so thankful that she's my little miracle child. The past several days I have been so in awe of her. I keep telling Brooks how I just can't believe she only has half of a heart! It really blows me away that she seems so normal and yet, she is doing so much more work than we are in our bodies. I am truly grateful that God has blessed us with this little being. I feel so blessed to be her mom. I can't wait to teach her all the things that a mommy is supposed to teach her child. I am so glad that I get to teach Anna Brooke how to love another person: little Emma Kate. I am so humbled that I get to teach them about Jesus and how God created both of them just the way that they are, for a specific purpose. I love my little angels! It has been a great birthday and I am so grateful for what I have in life.