Our First Family Thanksgiving 2011

Thanksgiving this year we were suppose to be in Kansas City visiting family, eat too much and Zoey still all nice and cozy in my tummy. God had other plans for us. Instead Zoey was here in the hospital in NICU, I was in the hospital recovering from heart failure and Ryan was on his way back to Little Rock after having to go back home to tie up some loose ends. Our first family Thanksgiving turned out exactly how Ryan and I would have wanted it, we just didnt know that until it happen. Ryan got to the hospital at about 4pm and we went downstairs to the NICU so we could spend time as a family. When we got there she was finally put in some clothes and looked so adorable in a cute little elephant outfit.

So looks just co much bigger in clothes and even more adorable! We got there and Ryan was able to change her diaper for the first time and lucky for him it was a dirty one. He didnt care, he was just happy to be able to start being a dad. It was a great Thanksgiving Day present!

 Ryan changing Zoey for the first time. She was very squirmmy and made Dad get her outfit all messy. It's not so easy change a premie that is hooked to all kinds of wires, but he did really well. Then it was time for my Thanksgiving Present..........

 I got to hold my baby girl for the first time in my arms on Thanksgiving! Talk about being in heaven!

She is our everything and she's only been her for a week and we haven't even really gotten to be her parents yet! While we were there, she had her eyes open almost the entire time.Its like she needed it as much as we did to have that time together as a family for Thanksgiving.

 We just can't get over how cute the pandas are on her. Our little Panda Bear :)

Look at those pretty eyes. The first time we really got to see her with them open for longer than a couple of seconds. If you were to tell Ryan and I that for Thanksgiving we would have the best time ever and it would be all because of a some amount of time that we were just us, our family of 3. We still need to get a family picture as we have yet to be able to get one. Hopefully it will happen soon.