They have finally released him to leave. Sarah and I went to our last lunch alone together for a long time at the California Pizza Kitchen and Baby’sRUs while we had some last moments of those expensive babysitters at the NICU.

Here we are at the NICU in the final moments. They have given us all kinds of loot to take home, he is in his car seat and moments from this picture we walk out.

As we are rolling Sarah and Max out of the hospital with our volunteer helpers for all the loot, Tom, Sharon and Arianne pull up on their way in to meet us. Two minutes later and they would have missed us. We would have been in the car and on the way home…..