First of all, thank you everyone for your thought and prayers and congratulations for getting Cutler home.  It is an incredible feeling to have both of the boys home and to get to wake up to my beautiful wife every morning.  Three months doesn’t sound like a long time, but it is an eternity when your family is separated.  Our first two days home were a bit stressful as we had to learn how to operate the food pump, figure out the different medicines, work with Cutler on a schedule, and just adjust to not having nurses around for anything we need. 

Finally, today, I feel like we have settled into a good groove and we owe a lot of that to having my parents and Aunt Pat here to help as we made through the transition.  The first couple of days also seem to have been a bit difficult on Cutler has he has been very vocal and his happy go lucky personality disappeared for awhile.  I am sure it is just a matter of adjusting to a brand new surrounding, but it can be frustrating at times to not be able to make your baby happy.  However, for some reason, tonight he just seemed to snap back to happy Cutler again, or at least as close to happy Cutler as we have seen in awhile. 

We did go to the doctor today for our first visit since getting home and the doctor was extremely pleased with the blood tests.  His platelets continue to soar, the WBC is in the 8K range, and even his red blood count is looking great.  Everything is looking so good that they have decided rather than have us come in every other day, we aren’t going back until Monday morning.  So yet another positive step in the right direction. 

Even though we are home, it is important to not lose site of the big picture and realize that we are not out of the woods yet.  I am working on another blog to help answer a lot of questions that I have been asked by different friends and family as well as have asked myself.  Hope to have that up by tomorrow afternoon.  In the mean time, we truly appreciate everyone’s continued support and prayers.

Below are a few pictures taken from the past few days, including our great escape from the hospital…

Melanie is happy to help the cleaning crew have a little less work after we left

Cutler is hungry for a good season of Cubs’ baseball to start (no disparaging comments please)

Cari and Crissy, Two of Cutler’s Angels

Superbaby!

Look at the devious look on Cutler’s face, he is ready to raise some heck!

The patient big brother ready to carry him on his back.

Oh yeah, Cutler is showing a lot of interest in skipping the crawl and moving straight to the walk.