picture perfect...even better

so chad and i braught elijah and elizabeth over to chads brother and sister in laws house and had some amazing pictures taken of our kids. we had a little fun with elizabeth as you can tell. check them out on marc photography on our blog list! thanks so much andrew and tiffany, we had so much fun!!

picture perfect

so i promised some pictures...

here she is ready to make the trip home!


we had an excited little helper waiting for us at home!


too cute if you ask me...she is laying on a boppy covered with a blanket


um what can i say...


so if you think that she is huge...well she is, she is getting way too big!!

alive

we are all alive! ...and not to meantion home! yay!! this past tuesday we were able to take elizabeth home. it was a very wonderful day to say the least. everything went so smooth in bringing her home. everyone seems to be adjusting to the little one just fine. she doesnt make a whole lot of noise around here so its like shes not even here. every five minutes elijah has to find "baby" and be "gentle". he seems to love her more than we do. its very precious! she had a check up at the doctor on friday and everything looked great. she gained 4oz. which is so wonderful because that was one of the problems with her not coming home. she weighs a total of 5lb. 10oz. now. chad and i both do not want her to get any bigger, she is just so cute how she is. just a side note, i am doing fine. its definitely a challenge to feed a child every three hours, doctors orders and not have your own schedule but thats ok. like i said we are still alive. i also just wanted to thank everyone that has been praying the past two months for elizabeth and i, we have seen God work mightily in a lot of different areas and continue to see Him work everyday. thank you so much!! (pictures will be coming soon)

Partially home

Well most of the family made it back home today, Elizabeth is the exception. Elijah was pretty happy to have everyone back together, but not nearly as excited as our little dog who spent that past three days alone.

Amber is doing especailly well considering that she had to leave her 2 day old daughter in the hospital. And Elizabeth is doing okay as well. Believe it or not we are actually praying for her to poop. The only thing we are waiting for is her eating and pooping. As soon as all that gets started we should be able to take her home. They are very careful not to say when they think she might be ready to come home, just because they don't want us to get our hopes too high. But until then we'll just be enjoying our full nights of rest!

Also- Elizabeth is going to get her 15 min. of fame a little early. The Holland Sentinel is going to publish a story about her....... it's actually about her getting a free book from the library but still-- pretty neat.

Thanks agian to everyone

Elizabeth Video

Elizabeth Marie

Elizabeth Marie Kraker
Born 9:07am Feb 17
5 LBS 6 OZ
Mom is doing great!

Elizabeth started out having a hard time breathing, and had to have a little bit of Oxygen. She is already done with that but is still having a bit of trouble eating. Both of these aren't a huge surprise considering that she was a month early. Thank you all for your prayers. I will update this hopefully tomorrow.

cute...hairy...little...33...clean house, thanks!!

we had to have an ultrasound yesterday, specialist orders, and everything looks great. the lady that does the ultrasounds said that she is very cute. i couldnt see it but i took her word for it because shes been doing this for 17 years. she also said that she has lots of hair. im looking forward to that, hahaha! she is weighing in at 4lbs. and 2oz. this is a little underweight but still ok. we will still be going through with delivery if i go into labor anytime. i made it to 33 weeks and the doctor does not forsee me going into labor for another two weeks. God answers prayer, thank you so much for praying!!

...another special thanks to my mom k and tammy for coming to clean my house. does anyone know how hard it is to have someone clean their house and know that you could be doing it, oof!! its not fun watching thats for sure!! thank you so much mom and tam!!