She's Home!! Clara's much anticipated homecoming...

After a long two weeks in her wonderful home away from home, (Kennedy Hospital), Clara Emerson "Sweet Pea" Botbyl is finally home!! She was happily discharged on Saturday, late afternoon after passing her car seat test and hearing screening with flying colors!! Thanks mom and Dad for running out to Babies R right after she was born and grabbing our awesome travel system for us!!  All those awesome coupons I obsessively saved and strategically organized helped a great deal though didn't they?!

 

We've been awaiting this experience forever, and it feels like an amazing dream to actually have her here!! She's come an extremely long way and has made tremendous strides since her birth, January 14th, and we are so proud of her, we're all out of words!! As trying as these two weeks have been, we feel so thankful and blessed to have been given the tremendous opportunity to work with and learn so much from the doctors and nurses in the nicu, and for Clara to receive such amazing care!! We've received incredible instructions from everyone there on how to care for our sweet little preems!! Here's our sweet baby's last couple of days "vacationing" in the nicu (in no particular order...)

 
Which outfit should our sweet baby venture home in?! Here is one of the "runner-ups" (so many amazing outfits...how do you choose!?)

Below is Baby Clara in her adorable "Going Home Outfit", a wonderful gift we received from Cathy Coppola and her daughter Amanda, who's also expecting, as well as her adorable warm fuzzy winter suit, which I absolutely adore!! 
 
Here she is learning about and experiencing her new home, which she loves so far!! We're extremely happy to have our incredibly sweet baby home with us...finally!!

 Thank you to everyone who has given us a tremendous amount of support, beautiful gifts, and encouraging words of comfort and wisdom - We deeply appreciate everyone's kindness and generosity and feel extremely lucky and overwhelmed with blessings as we begin this new exciting chapter of our lives!! Have an amazing week, and stay tuned for a special "Valentine's Day" post!! Thank you so much for stopping by!! Enjoy the rest of your week - God Bless!!