Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving!! This is the first Thanksgiving for our little miracle Dylan and he is doing great! It is hard to imagine last year at this time we were in NYC for the Macy's parade and not even imagining where we would be this year at this time. Wow have our lives changed, and for the better I may add. Thanksgiving is surely a time of reflection, reflecting on our past, present and future and not knowing what any of those times may hold for us to be thankful for. We are sure thankful that we have had two beautiful boys that both have melted our hearts. One is in heaven holding strong for his little brother fighting thru each and every day here with his mommy and daddy! We have our family, here and together and we couldn't ask for a better day to reflect on each other.
Yesterday Dylan got his vent tube out of his throat and was put on CPAP!!!! Yeah!!! It was a wonderful day to be thankful for. He is loving it as well. It takes a little bit of time for him to get use to breathing on his own and realizing that he needs to breathe with his mouth closed so the oxygen he is getting doesn't escape out his mouth. He is sucking on a pacifier most of the time and doing great with it. This also helps to keep the air in and helping him have deep breaths. He is eating 18 cc's every 3 hours now which is great. He is only having from 0 to trace to a few cc residuals but that is okay, overall he is tolerating them well. The other thing that CPAP does is puts extra air into their tummy so it takes him a little bit to get use to that and eating all of his food. And another thing to be thankful for today is Brad got to Kangaroo with Dylan for the first time!!!!! This was definetly a precious moment. When I saw the love of my life all snuggled up Kangarooing with the other love of my life, my precious little boy, it melted my heart!! Pictures to come definetly!!!
So what a wonderful Thanksgiving for our Holub family and I hope it was for all of you as well. We have so many things to be thankful for, family, friends, healthy lives and much much more. We are mostly thankful that God has blessed us with a family and a new baby where as some people never have this opportunity to snuggle with a baby of their own. God has created wonderful things for us and is giving us the strength to get thru each and every day and live each day as if it was our last. God has blessed Dylan and is giving him the strength to keep fighting so he can come home soon and this is what our family is most Thankful for today~