Field trips!

Thursday evening, all is well. Beautiful hot summer weather outside, and just hanging out with Erin in the cool hospital room is quite nice. We're grateful that we can just hang out for a few hours in the evening (thanks Grandmas for watching Miles!).

Today Erin took what will be the first of many, many daily 'field trips' down stairs to get checked out. It's a 'non-stress-test' officially, but basically they are checking heart rates, breathing and movement of the babies, as well as fluid levels of each. Today went especially well - the nurse happened to catch the boy in the midst of feverish movement (he was sort of heart to catch, his own little game of tag, which was fun...) and then caught little girl in a "breathing excercise" - where a little baby will literally breathe noticably harder just for the practice. So the nurse was very encouraged by that, noting that movement and breathing is a sign of good healthy babies. Very good news.

So Erin will continue to be tested one every day - a daily field trip if you will - and checked various other times to make sure her vital signs are good, and the babies are still maintaining good solid heartbeats.

I'll say it over and over, we are humbled and grateful at the outpouring of love and support. We really are grateful.

(If posts taper off from a once-a-day pattern, it's just because there isn't anything new to report - that's a good thing. We'll give some updates, but if you don't hear for a day or so it's just because "no news is good news!")