Layla's Time Away

Layla has been spending time away now that I'm on strict bedrest and am only supposed to get up to go to the bathroom and such. It'd be a little tough to take care of an 18 month old without leaving the couch! :) Thanks to family and friends for helping out! This week worked great only having to find baby-sitters for 3 days instead of 5. This coming week will be a little more difficult, but I'm sure we'll manage! Joe's brother and Heidi are getting married this Friday and ever since they picked the date back in August we've figured there was a very good chance that I'd be on bedrest, and we also thought that it was a possibility for me to have the baby the weekend of their wedding (since I'll be 30 weeks and 6 days on Friday and had Layla at 31 weeks and a couple of days), but as it approaches we are even more concerned that might happen! Hopefully not! With the wedding being this week that also means Joe will be gone two nights too which means finding even more help with Layla and it means that Joe's mom will be busy with wedding stuff so she won't be able to help with her. I'm sure it'll all work out though and hopefully Joe can make it to the wedding! Hopefully we don't have to skype in from the hospital--haha:).

We are very excited to have made it to 30 weeks today and while we pray for many more days, we are also giving thanks for the days we've had already! Every day counts in preemieland!

This is from last weekend when Layla was at Gavin's while we stayed in the hospital.
Story time in the basement with Gavin's cousin Ellie...

Chillin' in Gavin's new chair...probably watching Elmo or Mickey and Minnie--both of their favorites:).

Visiting mommy in the hospital...