Changes

It's hard to post after such a long silence.  And I know that there are so so very many of you who are anxiously awaiting a new post.  And from what I hear...you want one with pictures!  We have been taking pictures...knowing that I would one day soon get back onto the computer and be able to update you on what has happened recently.  It's been so long now that I have a hard time knowing what to say or how to introduce it.  And I'm so very tired that it's hard to know what I want to tell you first - much less organize my thoughts into paragraphs comprised of complete, well thought out sentences.  Instead, here you are, getting a very rambling, stream-of-consciousness post about how I don't know what to say.  What you don't see are the extreme pauses as I try to figure out what I am trying to say....

I think that's enough about that.

For now, what you really care about - pictures of Clara (and a few captions to help update you about the significance of each snapshot).

Just a funny moment with her telephone mustachio.

Fell asleep playing with her two favorite toys.

Another angle.

Her favorite sleeping position since she was a newborn with her bunny thumbie. This was the first time that she slept like this since the PICU.

We frequently take walks and show Clara the flowers in the atrium in the center of the hospital.

The halls in the hospital have all sorts of art. This is a multicolored "ribbon" made out of 1000 paper cranes.

A flower from what we call the "Clara" tree given her middle name. It has these big violet flowers that have been blooming since we got here.

Sitting with mommy after having her arm IV disconnected for the first time and wearing a new outfit courtesy of Mimi (Brooke's mom)

Sleeping baby wearing an outfit from dear friends Nick & Katherine Goodman and being protected from grabbing her lines with a burp cloth from Godmother Kelli Davis.