Quads Being Raised As Triplets: Christmas Day 2009

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Christmas Day 2009

The kids are very excited for Christmas Day!! There are so many presents and the tree is decorated with homemade decorations and candy canes. I opted not to get the decorations out with 3 one year olds running around.

Santa presents

Teddy, Samantha & Alexis

Teddy smiling big

Olivia & Alexis showing off pieces for thier castles. :)

Olivia and her new doll

Alexis in a pile of presents.

Olivia & Alexis with thier new dolls!! :)

We hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and wish you a very Happy 2010!!

Madeline

Our sweet Madeline Jean, had 8 very good days in the NICU. By day 3 Maddie had moved to high flow nasal cannulas for breathing, she was taking feeds and as spunky as ever. On day 8 she became ill, her stomac became enlarged, she was critcal, on day 9 the Doctors took a look inside and found all of her intestines and half of her stomac had died. We had her baptised and held her, as soon as she was in my arms skin to skin with me, we removed her breathing assistance and let her go very quickly and peacefully. We would later find that the cause of her death was NEC (Necrotizing Entrocolitis). We feel blessed to have had her for 9 days.