To celebrate Lilly’s One Month birthday, her doctors let us take her on a walk through the garden outside of the hospital. This was the first time Lilly has ever been outside. The flowers were beautiful and fragrent. The birds were singing. The warm wind was blowing. We even were able to show her a bumblebee.
I have posted some photos from the walk as well as a few other pictures from the weekend.
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Before Lilly’s birth, we posted a collection of pictures that represent the last nine months of Samantha’s pregnancy, starting with the joyful moment when we learned Samantha was pregnant with Lillianne.
No little girl could have been more wanted than Lillianne Rosemarie. She is a wonderful little girl who I fell in love with the moment I laid eyes on her. These last nine days have had more than their share of heartache and fear, but they also have been some of the best days of my life because I am lucky enough to be the daddy of this little girl.
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Lilly’s ventilator tube has been removed and she is breathing on her own. For up-to-date information, you can visit Lilly’s CaringBridge Site. I have posted a few pictures of Lillianne and her family over the last couple of days.
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I have posted some pictures from Lilly’s first week of life. Samantha was in the hospital recovering from her cesarean for most of this week and we were both spending most of our time with Lillianne in the NICU. Peter was with his grandparents and I was staying in their guest room, reading stories to Peter after coming back each night around 11:00pm. I don’t think anyone was getting any sleep.
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Our daughter Lillianne Rosemarie Rossow was born Friday the 23rd of June. She is a very sick little girl fighting for her life right now. As I write this, I am home from the hospital for a few hours hopefully to get a few hours of sleep.
Lillianne’s grandparents have been dutifully updating a website of their own to keep people up-to-date about our daughter’s condition. That site can be found at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/lillianrossow.
I have posted some pictures from Lillianne’s first day of life, including her baptism late friday night.
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Easter was enjoyed by all of us this year. As usual, the Easter Bunny made a visit to our house and left a large supply of Easter eggs strewn across the front yard. In addition to the eggs, he left lots of good stuff in an Easter basket. The Easter Bunny has good taste in books. “Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!” by Mo Willems was a great pick.
Samantha’s cousin John and his wife had the whole family over for an Easter luncheon. Amazingly enough, the Easter Bunny visited their house as well. This meant many more eggs for Peter. I suspect he will be eating Easter candy for a long time. We took lots of pictures of the “Egg Retrieval Process”.
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We visited the Gulf Coast of Alabama this spring for a week in March. We stayed in the Mobile Bay area. Samantha’s family rented a beach house on Dauphin Island just outside the bay. The tiny island has a history going back 300 years. At one point it was the capitol of the Louisiana Territory, which covered nearly two thirds of the United States.
The west end of the island was damaged by Hurricane Ivan and then pretty well destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, but the east end of the island where we were staying was hardly touched. Our end of the island was pretty sleepy, but the damaged west end experienced a traffic jam of contractors each weekday as they rebuilt the multi-million dollar beach houses.
It was a relaxing week spent walking along the beach, eating good food, visiting with family, and sightseeing along the coast. We put a about 1000 miles on our rental car during the week, so there I guess there was quite a bit of sightseeing.
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