You can now follow updates on Peanut and the rest of our adventures by liking us on Facebook. You never know who might drop by to say hi.

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Even though Peanut is almost 3 months old, we’ve only gotten a true taste of what it means to be a family of 6 during the last couple weeks that we’ve all been home together. Prior to this, it was a “divide and conquer” approach for the DW and me. One of us would be […]

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Lulu and I were out at my parents’ place last weekend. I was trying to get a couple good photos of a calf we’re planning on selling this winter and Lulu wanted to see Grandma eat ice cream. The bull photo didn’t turn out half bad. Cattle photography is actually an entire industry onto itself. […]

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Today is discharge day for Peanut!!! We will be leaving the hospital around noon today. 🙂 The Dear Husband got Sissy & Potato Boy on the bus, just dropped off Lulu at daycare, and is on his way to pick us up as I type. We had a great last few days here at the […]

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The last 72 hours have been busy for Peanut. As the DW mentioned in the last update, the NICU is very crowded right now and Peanut was listed as healthy enough to be moved out of the NICU and into a pediatric inpatient floor should the NICU run out of room. That moment came Wednesday […]

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Someone is two months old today…

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It’s been a while since the last update on the kiddos’ pumpkin patch. Unfortunately, with Pip’s craving for squash, the dry weather, and the lack of attention, there isn’t much to show for all the kiddo’s hard work earlier this year. I had quickly walked through the patch a time or two over the past […]

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It’s been almost a week since we posted our last update – and it’s been a fairly quiet week at that. Peanut has all but put her surgeries behind her and the focus has shifted to how her remaining intestines are going to work. Slow and steady on straight breast milk seems to be the […]

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Peanut has been doing very well the last few days and continues to gain weight – 4lb 5 oz as of yesterday. Little things are signs of big progress – recently, she’s starting to wake up hungry and take at least a portion of her feedings by bottle – earning her the nickname “Rock Star” […]

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With the events of the last few weeks (more on that tomorrow) I’ve been a little behind on some of the updates I was originally going to post a while back. There’s quite a list at this point – even when things are normal, there’s a ton of things going on this time of year […]

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