Today was our second-annual March for Babies, in memory of the 4 long months we spent watching our boys fight for life, and the hope that contributing to the March of Dimes would help other families and babies in the same tough spot.  With the help of all of you, our friends and family, our team raised $1500!

The boys were very kind to us last night, and slept the whole night through for the first time in a week.  Either that, or I slept the whole night through despite their waking, but I prefer to think that I wasn’t terribly negligent.  We had a quick Waffle-Saturday breakfast, and prepared to go.  Katie had left me with a check list last night while she ran off to the grocery store, and we were pretty much ready to go.  We left exactly on time (Malin was ready with about 6 seconds to spare), and got to the park just after 8:30am.

We met our friends Trevor and Julie there (who joined our team this year!)  We saw Heather, and then a number of our former nurses, and Dr. Neufeld.  Dawnn arrived with her entourage, Ashlyn and ‘lil Katie.  And then Ryan showed up, despite having mistakenly supercharged his truck the day before.

We started near the front of the march this time, and while we lost a bit of ground over the 3.5 mile track, we still made good time.  Trevor helped by knocking over some strollers, which created quite the bottle neck behind us.  A short ways in we met up with Robyn and Alex, who were running a little behind but wisely staked out a spot along the route and joined us as we passed.  Nic stayed awake for the whole walk, but Dexter passed out about halfway through.

When we got back to the park, they had set up a Bouncy House.  Nic did pretty well, and we tried to get Dex in once he woke up, but he wasn’t ready for it.

Afterward we headed home, and most of our team came over for a small barbecue.  We also invited Karl and Tristine over, and our enormously pregnant friend, Trisha (I wasn’t allowed any photos of her, though, due to the inability of my camera lens to go wide enough to capture her in her entirety).

Nic passed out 2 minutes away from our house, and napped for the next hour and a half.  Dex didn’t have a nap for the rest of the day, and shared his misery with us.  They both cheered up enormously when they got to have another cookie, though Nicholas doesn’t like to be told he can only have one (I snuck him another when his Mother wasn’t looking – shhh!  don’t tell).

Thank you again for your support – the boys are our everything, and it’s really hard to think back on the terror of those four months.  We talked with another couple who were there with their child – he’d been born a twin, but his twin didn’t make it.  My god, but how incredibly lucky we were.  It was a hell of a hard road, but our boys are hale and hearty, and we couldn’t ask for anything more.

Here’re some photos of our day:

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