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Super delayed one week update! I had this in my drafts and never posted it 🤷🏼‍♀️ It's been quite the adjustment taking our lil Miss Gracie home from the hospital. For her as much as it has been for us. I will say this though, Sam and I knew what we signed up for when we found out we were expecting her, sorta. We knew about the sleepless nights, the crying, the eating, and the pooping. What we didn't account for however, was the past 5 months in the hospital and the emotional toll it would take. We also didn't account for how hard it would actually be to take home a baby you thought you knew, who technically isn't a newborn, but is, and find out you really don't know them at all! Sorta. But we are just taking it one day at a time.

I thinks it's been a strange transition for Grace, as she has only ever known the hospital, with all its beeps, buzzes, nurses, and lights. This has meant that her days and nights are pretty mixed up. It also means she was used to being held by all the nurses who thought she was cute every time she fussed or was awake. Now that role is being filled by Sam and I. Which we are sooo excited about, but it is a lot!

Some of the things we were very excited and feel so grateful for most parents would see as simple everyday things. They are as follows: laying her on our bed and laying beside her, being there when she is waking up from her nighttime sleep, being the first one to feed her in the morning, learn how to feed breast feed her, sit in the grass with her on our lap in the sunshine, visiting with friends and family (outside the hospital) with her on my chest. The list could go on and on. It has been such a blessing to get to now experience these things, and discover them with awe and gratitude. Our journey has definitely given me perspective and made us appreciate the smallest, most simple things.

Psalm 55:22

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

Leaving RMH and moving to my parents

Snuggles with Papa

Snuggles with Nana

Sunday best! As you can see her fontanelle is quite sunken. It should level out in time as her brain adjusts to the shunt

Visit to the beach!

Baby walks with old friends

Showing their girls off! They are technically 8 days apart for birthdate 😳

Naps with uncle Wes

Fighting to be the one to push Grace in her stroller 😆 (their first solo walk with her)

We are currently living at my parents house until we are able to find a reasonably priced one bedroom apartment in West/central Mississauga (North or South). Prayers are coveted as we look for more permanent living arrangements and trust God to lead. We also pray for continued healing for Grace and pray expectantly that no infection will come and that her shunt will not be rejected by her body or malfunction. These are hard things to give to the Lord, but I know he is the only one in control and who has a good and perfect plan 🙏🏼