Special Care Nursery

For Blake's first birthday we decided we wanted to do a little something to say 'thank you' to the staff of the Special Care Nursery (SCN) who took such good care of Blake for the first 2 weeks of his life. So for Blake's party, we asked people to bring a donation for the nursery instead of a gift for Blake. Our friends and family were very generous and we collected a huge bag of clothes, hats and blankets for babies who have to stay in the SCN.

Yes, I know Blake's birthday was a long time ago - the bag has been sitting in the entryway reminding me for over 6 months that we have to go drop it off. I wanted to go together as a family to make the donation and finally we had a free day that we were all healthy to be able to venture to the hospital. We were able to talk to a few of the staff and it was especially nice to see one nurse who had taken care of Blake quite a bit. She remembered us and she liked seeing how Blake had grown. Campbell of course chimed right in and gave the nurses an ear full.

Leaving the hospital, out of nowhere I got really emotional.  A combination of happy, sad and grateful tears. Happy and extremely thankful that Blake is healthy. Sad thinking about how time goes so fast and he's not a baby any more. And grateful that this visit to the hospital was a fun visit.

Front of my home made Thank You card

Inside of the card

My not so small babies

Going back to the car. This is when I lost it - watching Blake running down this hallway. I had walked this long hallway several times every day on my way to spend time with Blake in the SCN and it was weird being there again with him being so much older. He's running for crying out loud! Crazy to think that when he was in the SCN we were elated when he was finally strong enough to nurse one tiny drop of milk.