http://www.rossow.net The Rossow family web portal Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:47:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To celebrate Lilly's One Month birthday, her doctors let us take her on a walk through the garden outside of the hospital. This was the first time Lilly has ever been outside. The flowers were beautiful and fragrent. The birds were singing. The warm wind was blowing. We even were ... http://www.rossow.net/2006/07/lillys-trip-to-the-garden/ Before Lilly's birth, we posted a collection of pictures that represent the last nine months of Samantha's pregnancy, starting with the joyful moment when we learned Samantha was pregnant with Lillianne.  No little girl could have been more wanted than Lillianne Rosemarie. She is a wonderful little girl who I ... http://www.rossow.net/2006/07/the-last-nine-months/  Lilly's ventilator tube has been removed and she is breathing on her own.  For up-to-date information, you can visit Lilly's CaringBridge Site.  I have posted a few pictures of Lillianne and her family over the last couple of days. http://www.rossow.net/2006/07/lilly-is-breathing-on-her-own/ I have posted some pictures from Lilly's first week of life.  Samantha was in the hospital recovering from her cesarean for most of this week and we were both spending most of our time with Lillianne in the NICU.  Peter was with his grandparents and I was staying in ... http://www.rossow.net/2006/07/lillys-first-week-in-the-nicu/  Our daughter Lillianne Rosemarie Rossow was born Friday the 23rd of June.  She is a very sick little girl fighting for her life right now.  As I write this, I am home from the hospital for a few hours hopefully to get a few hours of sleep. Lillianne's grandparents have been ... http://www.rossow.net/2006/06/lillianne-rosemarie-rossow/  Easter was enjoyed by all of us this year. As usual, the Easter Bunny made a visit to our house and left a large supply of Easter eggs strewn across the front yard. In addition to the eggs, he left lots of good stuff in an Easter basket. The Easter ... http://www.rossow.net/2006/04/easter-egg-hunting/  We visited the Gulf Coast of Alabama this spring for a week in March. We stayed in the Mobile Bay area. Samantha's family rented a beach house on Dauphin Island just outside the bay. The tiny island has a history going back 300 years. At one point it was the ... http://www.rossow.net/2006/04/alabama-gulf-coast/  Not far from the beach house where we were staying on Dauphin Island was Fort Gaines, which played a key role in the Battle of Mobile Bay during the Civil War. The Union fleet, under the command of Admiral David Farragut fought their way into Mobile Bay, which was defended by ... http://www.rossow.net/2006/04/fort-gaines/ Samantha's dad has spent a lot of time over the last year working in both Biloxi and New Orleans. We spent some time in both cities during our trip. The damage in Biloxi from Hurricane Katrina was dramatic, as the full force of the storm sat over the city for ... http://www.rossow.net/2006/04/new-orleans-and-biloxi/ On our trip to Alabama, we visited the Gulf Coast Zoo in Gulf Shores, Alabama. This is a little zoo with about 300 animals. It was a great place to visit with a little boy who likes animals. The zoo had only recently reopened after having been closed for ... http://www.rossow.net/2006/04/gulf-coast-zoo/