Pigtails and Pearls: NICU Reunion 2009

Remember this??

Well.....because of this wonderful day, we got to go to this today!

Chloe was so excited about this NICU Party. The theme was "Land of Oz", so my sweetheart dressed up like Dorothy. Or atleast similar to Dorothy! Here she is before we left the house showing off her costume!

Man is she cute or what?

So....anyway, today was the NICU Reunion and for those of you who do not know Chloe had a 2 week stay at the NICU. Not nearly as long as many babies, but nevertheless, it was an eternity for us! At the Reunion they had all the characters and I thought that Chloe was going to be scared to death of them! NOPE!! She loved them. I think what eased her fears is that she saw Dorothy and she had sparkly red shoes on too. The second she saw her, Chloe looked at me and said "Look Mommy she has sparkle shoes on like me!" And at that point, as far as she was concerned, she was where she belonged!!

When we got all checked in Chloe got a bag and her "Badge of Courage!" Boy did she wear that proudly!

Here is Chloe with Dorothy! I think that she found it so funny they were dressed alike!

Oz was at the front with Dorothy, but Chloe was not too sure about him. She let him hold her, but he did not have sparkly shoes on and, well, she did!

Here are some pictures of her with the other characters. The witch was her least favorite. In fact, she would not get out of her stroller. But she did take a picture with them! She loved the monkeys though! She kept saying "THOSE SILLY MONKEYS MOMMY!" It is a good thing K was not there because apparently the monkeys still scare him!

And what would the "Land of Oz" be without a yellow brick road to follow? Don't ask us....we wouldn't know!

And guess what? That yellow brick road led us to the Tin Man!!!

And the Queen!

And then we found some crafts! The first craft that we did was a handprint for the March of Dimes. We got to write Chloe's NICU story and what she is up to today. They are going to frame her story next to her handprint and give it to a March of Dimes Sponsor at the March of Dimes event next year! Isn't that cool? Somebody will be given Chloe's story as a gift! Then we headed to make a handprint to bring home! Here she is waiting anxiously to paint her hand! She loved this. Of all the colors she did both handprints in pink!

And here she is getting her hand painted!

While we were waiting on out tile to dry we had a couple more photo ops!

One thing that Chloe wanted to do before she left was play in the Bounce House! Here she is. This is the very first time she has ever smiled in one of these things!