After 101 days in the Abington Special Care Nursery we are finally leaving!!!! Yesterday we got the official word that we would be coming home on Thursday June 21, the first day of summer. Thank God it's June and not RSV season.
Judith and I would like to send a special thanks to our employers, Verispan and Cenlar. Not only have they been so supportive of every aspect of our journey so far but they have been very understanding and have stressed to us that family comes first. THANK YOU!!!!
Well, today has been a whirlwind. We both put in a few hours of work and then it was on from there. First a trip to Babies R' Us for bottles, nipples, bassinet sheets etc. Then to the hospital for a feeding, training on the O2 and apnea monitors we will be using, another feeding and watch a car seat safety video. Unfortunately Nina did not pass her car seat test, she studied really hard but no luck. I guess she will be going to Slippery Rock and not Dickinson! For the first few weeks Nina will have to use a car bed, after some last minute scrambling we found one -- thanks to big sister Amy and Grand mom for getting us a car bed and bringing it down to us. What stinks it that we have a really cool car seat that will have to wait to be used.
Tomorrow is the big day. Most likely she will be discharged in the afternoon and then she is all ours. Stay tuned for a special retrospective of our time at AMH, Nina herself wants to be involved so it will be extra special.
Here is a picture from tonight, Judith and I giving Nina her first big girl bath:
Exhale!!!!We made it through!!
All dressed up for the car ride home!
Sorry Nina you are still too mini for the car seat, but not too mini to come home! When we take her home it will be in the comforts of a super hip car bed. 
ow nipples to regular flow. She's drinking about 2 oz each feed (thanks Nurse Grace for having Nina be a part of NICU Boot Camp! (notice the walls in Nina's area are empty) We are clearing out!
Yes it was not much of a sleepover if you ask us! But it was truly wonderful to have Nina all to ourselves!
Thanks Aunt Paula for the sweet outfit!
Happy Father's Day Jason!!! 
OK so Nina did well with the bottles and her NG tube (feeding tube) is history!
We asked a lot of of Nina today. She was to take every feeding by mouth, and she did it! She seems to like sitting up to eat instead of the usual sideline feed. She gobbled up all her bottles. We are mixing it up with formula and she is doing well with it. We are hopeful sometime this weekend will be the last with the NG tube. We can't wait to see her tube-free!