Pictures!

We have decided to satisfy your curiosity despite our indecision as to how to proceed with our blog due to recent training Sam received. Enjoy. I don't know how long this will last :)

Before we knew what was about to hit us.

Who would have thought this little angle had anything

wrong with his insides.

In the NICU with Great Grandma Eleanor's

quilt. She's not making them anymore and we

were sure glad Malchi received one of her last.

That is a serious double chin!

The tube to drain his stomach so he wouldn't

gag/choke to death.

Post surgery with Dr. Aiken's trademark heart

gauze. You can't see his incisions, but you can see

his seriously bloated belly from all the air

they pump into it in order to be able to do

the surgery.

Pre-surgery. It's funny how he looks so normal

until you see all the wires an tubes coming out of his clothes.

He was able to go without his tummy draining tube by this time.

His NICU pod, home away from home.

The best children on the planet. They are so kind

and caring, resilient and adaptable, and just

plain cute. I don't know where we'd be without

each and every one of you. Thank you Zackary, Jacob,

Ellie, and Addie for being the best children to have

at a time like this. Malachi is a blessed little boy to

have siblings like you waiting to play with him.

The dreaded ng tube for gavage feedings.

What an awful experience to watch your

sweet baby vomit so hard for so long all

because he's got way too much food being dumped

down a tube to his stomach.