This afternoon we went to Grapevine's historic Nash Farm for Baylor Grapevine's 3rd annual NICU Reunion! It was really great to see all of Kendall's nurses & her neonatal specialist again. (We didn't get to make a little visit to the NICU on her birthday this year, so it has been a year since we'd seen anyone.) It was a hot May afternoon with plenty of fun things to do & special people to catch up with. The NICU is getting a brand new building & will be moving in in July, so they had all the NICU-graduates make handprints on a big banner that will be hanging in their new wing, so we plan on going to see it later this summer.
Kendall was {mostly} all smiles for everyone & all the pictures ...
Kendall with her neonatal specialist Dr. Kappler ... who took great care of her {and us} while she was there for 8 weeks.
nurse Cyndy and Kendall's main nurse Kimbo ... this was our 1st time to see Kimbo since we left the NICU 3 years ago. (She travels a lot and has been gone during each reunion & during the times that we'd visited the hospital, so we keep missing her.)
Kendall loved the train rides, bounce house, bubbles, balloons and pony rides! She stayed busy running from one fun thing to the next!
Little Miss Cowgirl!
us with nurse Gina, one of Kendall's sweet daytime nurses
just before we left, after we were completely hot & sweaty, we tried to take a better picture with our nurse Kimbo
We are so thankful for our NICU & the care that they provided Kendall {and us} for those 8 weeks. God blessed us so much by providing us with my OB-GYN, that hospital, that Level 3 NICU and those doctors and nurses ... to take care of Kendall when we couldn't. There will never be words enough to express our joy & thankfulness in giving Kendall the best start possible, given the circumstance ... and to witness each day all that God has done & continues to do to heal Kendall's tiny 2 lb 6 oz body and grow & develop her these 3 years!
We have now been to 3 NICU Reunions ... it's amazing to see how much Kendall has grown over these 3 years! Here's a snapshot of her last 3 years ...
At our 1st reunion ... with nurse Kim & our charge nurse Susan ... it was our 1st time to see everyone in 3.5 months, after being with them every day for 8 straight weeks ... Kendall was 2.5 months adjusted/corrected old (5 months) ... October 2009
At the 2nd NICU reunion ... with our favorite awesome neonatal specialist, Dr. Sherri Kappler ... Kendall was 2 years old ... May 2011
This year's reunion ... with Dr. Kappler ... Kendall at 3 years old
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