Friday, April 11, 2008

Happy 9 months, baby girl!

Our Gracie is 9 months old today! We are busy busy busy packing and getting everything ready to go tomorrow. We will arrive in Minnesota on Saturday armed with one headstrong baby, 2 hopeful parents, and 4 suitcases stuffed to the limit with clothes and baby toys.

Gracie continues to do great. Wednesday was our last ERT at Shands and a sad goodbye to the wonderful team who worked with us. Kathy and the rest of our beloved nurses, along with Dr. Kelly, threw us a wonderful farewell party. They had set up our little area with lots of balloons, ordered pizza from 5-Star (YUM) and showered "their" baby with tons of fun presents. They also gave us a framed picture of all of us together to take with us to Minnesota so that Gracie will still have her nurses fighting over her. What a wonderful group of people. I must say, that while the Shands team had a rocky start, they pulled it out in the end and we must give the Shands BMT Team a big thumbs up and a lot of gratitude. We're looking forward to sneaking back to visit in a few months and surprising our dear friends. :)


Gracie showing her beloved Nurse Kathy how yummy a tube of Lansinoh is!


News!

Yup thats it. We're officially in the news. The local paper will be running a story on Gracie today. So all of our local fans can open their Lake City Reporters and read about us and our journey. For our non-local fans... I think it might be on their website in a few hours. http://www.lakecityreporter.com/ Here's hoping, anyway. Tony Britt was a kind and patient reporter, and I know he'll do Gracie's story well. I can't wait to wake up and read it.

On that note, its off to bed for Mommy who has a big day tomorrow of packing and finalizing everything.

xoxox

6 comments:

Reign said...

Happy 9 months beautiful Gracie!!!! Wishing all of you a safe journey back to MN, you all continue to be in my prayers.

Uncle Mack said...

Great job by the lake city repeater! Can't wait to see you guys next week. I'm very excited for Gracie. This is going to be great.

Kelsey said...

Hhat a great atricle. And a big Happy 9 Months to the sweet baby girl! Have a very safe trip up north. Still praying for you all.

Testdriver said...

What a sweet article. Happy 9 months B-Day, Gracie, and thanks to Tony Britt at the Distorter. Looks like he really did his homework.

Nice pictures, too!

Everybody flap your wings real hard, and we'll see you in Minnesota!

*Adriann* said...

Happy 9 months!! I'm thinking of you guys every step of the way. Update when you can!!

Im so glad Shands pulled it out for you! Gracie deserves the very best

mykidsmomx4 said...

You are all on the way there today... have a blessed trip and know that many many people are praying for that adorable little girl!

Great story on Gracie. And nice to see a pic of mommy and & daddy too!