2 Days Old

I'm home! Good to be home. Here in NYC you don't have a private room after delivery unless you pay a lot of extra money, we chose to opt out of that, therefore I had a roommate. I won't get into the details but it was a very interesting and heartbreaking experience. I am so thankful for a supportive, loving, caring husband. It's easy to forget how good we have it till you are reminded by others you are around.

Anyway, onto the babies. I've really enjoyed feeding and bonding with Elliott. He is doing so well. Today when I went down he was wearing a shirt and his hat was off. We had our first glance at his hair, he is so beautiful.
I got to hold Lillie for the first time today and it was special. It's hard to bond with her right now because she is always in her incubator and connected to so many tubes, but I was grateful for the chance to love on her for a few minutes. Tonight when we went back to feed Elliott we checked in on Lillie and she was out so the nurse could change the sheets in her bed and her hat was off, so we got a quick picture of her with her hair showing too. She has a head full! She is a beautiful little girl as well, we are anxious for her to make some progress so we can love on her as much as we get to with Elliott right now.Jack is doing wonderful. Having a good time with Hannah. After church tonight Freddy, Hannah and Jack came by the hospital so I could spend a few minutes with Jack today. He was excited to see me till he spotted these round looking, balloon shaped seats for little kids around a table. He quickly was distracted from Mommy. Then he spotted the snack and coke machine and was entertained by pushing buttons. A few minutes later he crawled up in his stroller, Freddy asked where he was going and he said, "I want to go to Starbucks!" We're pretty sure this was his first real complete sentence!For now I'll spend the majority of my days at the hospital so I can feed Elliott, and Lillie as she is able, every 3 hours. Thanks for your prayers, the Lord is sustaining us and giving us a great joy and hope.

Twins Update

Greetings from the Big Apple! Susan was discharged this morning and is at home right now freshening up. She got to hold Lillie this morning for about 10 minutes. They took Lillie off the c-pap but kept her on oxygen. After she held her, they put Lillie back on the c-pap. Her breathing rate right now is okay, but the quality of her breaths are not what we want them to be. She's still working a little to hard to breathe. The doctors still haven't diagnosed her with TTN or HMD, but it is looking like TTN. She has not gotten any worse, but has yet to make the progress she needs to make. The Lord has been so gracious in giving us joy that absorbs any potential fear. We are so grateful for their arrival and two non-c-section births. Elliott is eating good. Lillie was put under the lights this morning too because her billyruben was a little low. They gave her some breast milk through a tube and she spit a little back up. At the next feeding they will see if she has digested the rest of it, and if she has they will giver her the same about as before, 15 cc's.

Today we met Sharon and Sharar. They have two that were born @ 27 weeks. Today their babies have been in the NICU for two weeks. We have benfited from their two weeks of learning the NICU details and care and have been inspired by their strength and care for their babies.

There is a set of six babies that are also in the NICU here. In all there are 47 babies in the NICU.

We've received the reports from all over for the prayers and we are so grateful. He is listening.

I actually broke away this morning for about an hour to preach in our morning service. Our other pastor is in GA preaching at one of our partner churches. It was great to be with the church family of the church plant here. We miss you all. God is giving us the mercy we need and our hearts are filled with joy.

A couple of photos to get you through the night

Mommy with her sweet boy Elliott David. He ate good tonight, we were proud of him.

Lillie...the first grand-daughter to big Freddy and Mary Coleman! She's holdin steady and doing good tonight. I got to sing to her and hold her hand tonight.



The twins first picture together...

Elliott and Lillie were born this morning!!!

Elliott David Wyatt was born @ 9:21am weighing (unofficially) 4 lbs and his sister Lillie Beth followed @ 9:30 weighing (officially) 5 lbs. 11 oz. Susan's water broke @ 11:50 last night, we called the doctor and were shortly waiving down a cab to head to Mt. Sinai. The birth was absolutely amazing, Susan was awesome, and the delivery team (probably at least 10 in the room) was outstanding. When I have more time I'll try to paint you the picture.

Lillie and Elliott are both in the NICU. Elliott is stable and not on oxygen, but Lillie a little more urgently needs our prayers as she is on 25% oxygen. She either has TTM (look it up) or HMD (again look it up). Both are very treatable and deal with her breathing. I'll give more details when we are not so wiped out.

Susan is doing remarkable. If you saw what I saw this morning as the delivery team had to turn Lillie to get her head down, your own stomach would hurt. I'm about to take Sus up to NICU to see the babies really for the first time except immediately after the birth. She is going to try to feed Elliott, pray that have a good introduction to one another.

We love you all so much!

Latest Family Picture

Happy Halloweeen

We woke up earlier than usual this morning, loaded up the stroller, and headed to Rockefeller Plaza to the Today Show. It was our first experience at a Morning Show. We didn't stay long, only long enough to get a good shot on the camera for our friends and family to see Jack in his "Taxi" costume and then come back home. Our lead pastor, Aaron, and his wife Carmen have made it their Halloween tradition to go and let Ezra get on TV so the grandparents can see him dressed up and they invited us to go with them this year. I can see it becoming our family tradition as well. Security let us in a side section and within 5 to 10 minutes the camera was right on Jack and Ezra. Jack was unsure about the Taxi while we were home, but I guess the thought off wearing it grew on him as we got closer and closer, because he didn't complain. Maybe it was because he got to be on Daddy's shoulders that made it ok. Afterwards we came back to our neighborhood and ate breakfast at McDonalds. Freddy had somewhere better in mind, but we settled for there so I wouldn't have to walk anymore.

I don't know if we'll do anything tonight or not. I was worn out after this morning, just woke up from a 2 hour nap, Jack is still out. I told Freddy that since Jack won't care one way or the other, that might be our Halloween fun for the day, I'm pretty sure he was ok with that as well. However, I do think there is a lot to do in the city and in our area for little ones tonight.

It's Friday, I don't cook on Fridays, so a nice meal prepared by someone else and a restful evening at home sounds good to me. For the rest of you out there, enjoy Trick or Treating and Happy Halloween!Waiting for the subway this morning.

Mr. Taxi

A rear view

Ezra, the Pirate and Jack before we headed home.

I think Jack is more interested in tearing it up than wearing it.

When you ask him what he was for Halloween he says " A taxi, vrooom, vrooom."
Matt Lauer getting his make up touched up
Al, the Gingerbread Man

Happy Halloween!

Can It Get Any Better Than This?

Jack watching Playhouse Disney this morning.