Finally..we have to nursery done-and more importantly Abby is coming home this week!! We can hardly believe it's all coming together!!! Abby is scheduled to come home on Wednesday, it can always get pushed back, but we're thinking it will be Wednesday. She's doing wonderfully, they just want to be sure she's gaining enough weight and still eating well. Abby has been eating everything by mouth since Thursday-and she's a pig! When I'm not in the hospital to see her she eats from a bottle and she gobbles it up. At her last weight on Sunday she was 3.14lbs, and I'm sure she's gone up since then because she's been eating so well. We were hoping she would have been rid of the oxygen before she comes home but she still needs it- She's on a very small amount and just can't seem to kick it. We tried her off of it on Saturday and she did OK but she let us know she still needs it-she is totally the boss already-Roxy's in trouble! Abby's Dr's think she'll be on the oxygen less than a month and she hopefully won't be on the monitor for much longer. Matthew and I had our training at the hospital today for everything. We had training for CPR, and both the monitor and the oxygen. It was a little over whelming but I think we got it all. We are staying over night in the hospital tomorrow with Abby to get a 'trial run' with everything. Matt and I stay in a room next to the NICU with Abby and she is hooked up to everything just as she'll be at home. If we have any questions or need help the nurses are right next door-if only it was the case at home! They assure us that after we stay the night we'll feel much better about everything. Needless to say we are very excited to have her home. A nurse will come over the next day and check her weight and make sure everything is OK and then the next day we see our pediatrician. One of her neonatologists from Chester County runs a follow up clinic in the hospital and she will see Abby sometime next week. We'll also probably go see the surgeon and liver Dr's at CHOP next week, so Abby will be making her rounds. As soon as she can have visitors we will get everyone together. I know you all want to come see her and love her, and she can't wait to meet all of you. We have to strictly limit visitors because she has such a high risk of getting sick. If she does get sick she'll have to go back to the hospital, so we'll do everything we can to avoid that.

Thanks to my wonderful family, the nursery is finally done!!! Originally, we picked out this really cute, neutral alphabet theme for the baby's room. After Abby came, we went to go buy the bed set and they didn't have it. So I was looking around and saw the cutest set for a girl's room and after I saw it I just couldn't see Abby in anything else!! So we returned the few things we had gotten for the other theme and bought the cutest bedding set I've ever seen!! It's pink-of course-with ladybugs and flowers..I love it!! My mom, and my Aunt Kim, Uncle Steve and their kids came and everyone helped-even Roxy. Mom attempted to pain the first day-but when she went back to the store for more paint, they mixed up the wrong color and we didn't realize it until after she was done. One entire half of the room was bubble gum pink, and the other half was a very pretty light pink I picked out. So they all came back on Sunday and Steve and mom repainted--I think mom is a little sore!! Kim, Marissa and her girlfriend washed all Abby's clothes and organized her room. They boys attempted to keep Roxy out of the nursery but she still had pink paint on her whiskers! I really don't know what we would have done if they hadn't come over-We just never had to time to get everything together. I'm sure Kim has a few more things up her sleeve to finish Abby's room, but it looks so darn cute already!!
We'll be taking lots of pics and video of Abby as she's coming home and I promise to get them up online as soon as I can.....love to all of you!!