Welcome Noah Jeremiah Hendricks

As all of you know, Noah is the newborn premie of Jeff and Missy and I finally got some long awaited pictures of him today. Dawn, Dad, and I went down today to Des Moines and spent time with Jeff, Missy and Noah. It was so wonderful when I finally got to see him. It is just so amazed at how tiny he is, but he is so cute that I just wanted to reach in and get him and cuddle him right up next to my neck. I could have sat there and looked at him for hours. Noah is doing great and he is already off the respirator, how wonderful is that. The only thing right now that they are concerned about is a possible infection. They won't know more on that for a day or two. Otherwise his is looking great and doing great. As you can see in his pictures he is a little bruised on the forehead and stuff, but that is from delivery and he will recover from those. Also, Jeff and Missy may get to hold him tomorrow(Thursday), that is definitely something to look forward to. Missy is doing good as well but is still hurting of course from her c section. She is also swollen in both of her legs and feet but they assure her that will get better. Her blood pressure is still a little up there but she is one tough cookie. The doctors were saying how serious Missy's condition was and they were very concerned for her life for a while there. And of course they don't tell Jeff this until after the fact. But we are all very happy at how Missy hung in there and fought through it all and as a result they both have a wonderful, handsome baby boy. Congrats to the new parents and I hope everyone enjoys the pictures.