We are going home!

Evelyn has made such a recovery in the past 24 hours that they are releasing us today....I can't tell you how excited I am to get her home, see Ella and sleep in a bed.  I feel sad for the moms and dads who have been here so long and will continue to be here.  We are truly grateful.  She is back to her normal eating schedule, laughing when I tickle her and seems to be great on her oral meds.  We are waiting for discharge orders and all the other things that will most likely take all day.  She is a bit anemic from the blood loss, but they are not too worried about that.  She is also coughing now and we will have to wait and see if it is a cold or from the intubation and dry air.  She is sleeping now and I get to give this stinky stinky baby a bath when she wakes up.  The George Clooney doc (Dave just loves when he comes by) wants me to wash her incision really well with soap and water.  I have to find even more strength to do that.  I am attaching a few pics of the nice view from our room.  I couldn't sleep much last night after holding her for hours and then just anxiously awaiting to talk to the docs....so I realized our nice view and attempted to get a pic or two.  AGAIN...thank you all for your support, thoughts, prayers, visits, lunches and dinners...we love you all and I know it would have been so hard without everyone behind us through this difficult week.