Where we are now...

So much has happened since we left the feeding clinic, I'm going to limit it to bullet points, otherwise you'd never get through reading this post! (and I'm not sure I'd ever find enough time to write it.)

• We left Evansville on Thursday evening after a final day of therapy.  The whole staff joined together to celebrate Sunshine and our sweet friend and their progress over the past five weeks.
  

 

•  Thankfully, we were able to fit Sunshine's new chair in the trunk of the car and we got a car top carrier to hold our suitcases.

• We attended a Conference in Terre Haute, IN over the weekend.  What a fun time it was to connect with our fellowship there and build new relationships!
• We drove back to South Bend/Mishawaka and crashed at our friend, Thomas' house.  We were so thankful for that place to stay while we went through the craziness of packing that followed.
• Matt's mom flew out to help us with the girls while we packed, and help Matt's sister as she was also in the middle of packing and preparing to move.

Sunshine models her new high chair.

• Matt and I spent Tuesday, Wednesday,  and Friday of that week at our storage unit, sorting and purging through at least half of our boxes (everything that was not already packed for Spain).  It was cold and windy!  The first thing we had to dig out was some warm clothes.  Meanwhile, Matt's mom got a crash course at feeding Sunshine and they both did great! 

Watching us come in from the car.

We loved having a few days to enjoy Autumn!

She was equally excited when it snowed.

• We were thankful for the opportunity to have one last Sunday at Redeemer, our church family in South Bend.
• An awesome group of people helped us load up the trailer Sunday afternoon!  We were so tired of lifting and moving all those boxes, it was amazing to have help.

All loaded up!  Incredible.

These girls are so used to having boxes around by now!

•  Early Monday morning we left South Bend, along with Matt's mom and sister, Anita.  Monday was our long day of driving.  Pulling a trailer, we could barely get up to 60mph, so it took a total of 14 hours to drive to Omaha.  We were so glad when that day was behind us!

Comfy for the long trip!

A quick supper stop meant Buttercup got to have a "picnic" in Tia's car listening to Frozen.

• We spent Tuesday in Omaha with my grandma.  We so needed that day to rest after our long travel day and we all enjoyed spending time at grandma's house and seeing some of my cousins and aunt and uncle in the evening.
• We took Wednesday and Thursday to drive the rest of the way to Colorado Springs.
• Friday we were greeted with a fantastic group of men from our office here who helped unload the trailer.  They were life-savers as we were not at all acclimated to the altitude!
• Since we've been here, we have been busy unpacking and moving in to our space here.  Trying to decide what to unpack and what to leave in boxes for now has been a challenge.  The girls are loving their big play area and having their toys out of boxes.

Sunshine has been walking all over and loves to play "kitchen".

Buttercup has adopted many new dolls, some of which used to be mom's and mine.

I love seeing these sisters bonding and playing together.  Buttercup is such a good big sister, helping Sunshine with difficult things and "reading" to her often.

• And, what I know everyone has been waiting to hear, Sunshine has been doing awesome with her eating!  I think she has only thrown up once in the past month.  That is big improvement in itself.  But that isn't all.  She has also increased her volumes slowly since we left the clinic.  Yesterday she ate/drank a total of 34.6oz throughout the day!  Amazing!  We stay busy keeping up with her feedings and blending and measuring out her food and drink each day.
• We have gotten our CO drivers licenses, started important insurance paperwork, visited a couple potential preschools for Buttercup to attend starting in January, and begun the process of getting Sunshine back into an early intervention therapy program.

We love living with Nana and Opa!

Buttercup enjoys tea parties with Nana.