update #3 for today

Hello all this is Francie's niece Carolyn signing on again to share the latest on the boys. First when she called just now I have to share that you could hear the smile on her face and how thrilled she is for each and every miracle God is showering on these boys. Okay so for the good news from all your prayers

Kellen is doing AMAZING. Today was just his third day with a bottle and Grandpa Doug spent the night in the NICU and thus got to feed him early this morning and the sweet little thing took a whole 25 ml (remember he took only 5 ml on his first feeding) and today Kellen took 35 ml when Liz got to feed him his bottle which is the maximum they are looking for at his gestational age!!! Grandma Francie is elated beyond words at the miracle that he is. He is so small and yet he is smiling and functioning just as perfectly as any other baby. She commented on how she just loves looking at his tiny little tongue and fingers as they move and he figures out how to work all his parts.

Carson is keeping up with his brother in the miracle department. In the last hour he had 35 ml of urine output, praise the Lord! Francie told me there was a renowned neonatologist that used to tell his tiny patients that he would give them a quarter if they would pee 10 ml in an hour when they struggled and those quarters would get taped to their isolates. Well Carson is racking up some quarters and may have a deposit for his college fund before this is over. Aunt Sarah called for an update just after they found out about the record breaking 35 ml and she said she got to put down the quarter for that hour. Also Carson had the procedure this morning to remove the excess blood near the incision site and one of the nurses said she saw him move his right eye immediately after the procedure, this is a miracle because they were not sure they were able to preserve that nerve in the surgery. Grandma Francie was spending time with Carson singing the Old Rugged Cross (Doug sang this to Liz when she was a baby to calm her down) and the divine chaplet and she saw Carson open his right eye, then move his right hand, then right foot, then left hand and arm in that order as if to say I'm getting there the prayers are working.

Also Francie got to place these wonderful prayer blankets on the edge of the babies isolates today. A volunteer at the hospital made them and the priest there prayed over them and wrote down that prayer for Liz and Preston to repeat it to the boys. This morning at the daily mass the priest blessed the blankets and asked Francie to place them on the table in the back and that each person that attended mass that morning to touch the blankets and offer a prayer for the boys as they left the chapel. Francie said that there were more people than normal at the daily mass today and it thrilled her that all those additional prayers were going up for the boys.

I can tell you that Francie, Doug, Liz and Preston are all feeling the warmth and love of your prayers for their little miracle boys and are so thrilled to continue to see God's abundant blessings. They want to share the fruit of these prayers with you and thank you for your dedication to praying Carson and Kellen into full health.

Posted by Carolyn