Reconnecting with old friends

One of our NICU friends ran into another mom we knew from our time in the NICU. They had basically dropped off the face of the earth after going home. There had been sightings, and we knew they had another baby, since they had another (short) NICU stay with the second baby.

I've often wondered about this mom. She gave birth to twins at 25 weeks. One twin survived, and the other did not. They had a long stay in the NICU too, and when they left, we hoped they would stay in touch. I often wondered how she did it. She didn't have time to grieve for her dead baby because she had another one fighting for his life. She had to muster up all of her positive energy to give to Tanner so he could fight to survive.

As a parent with a child that spent time in the NICU, I think you will forever wonder what happened to all of those babies you spent time with. You worry about them. Especially when you don't hear about how they are doing.

So, it was FANTASTIC to spend the morning seeing and playing with Tanner and his brother Peyton. Tanner is doing so well, he has some issues with eating, (sounded REALLY familiar) but developmentally, and physically, he's doing GREAT.

I didn't do a great job with the pictures, but, you try to get four toddlers in the same frame.
I forgot to post pictures with the apple picking post so here are a few just because.