Prayers Needed & My Little Scarecrow!

Okay, first off, and most importantly, I once again need to ask for everyones prayers. My cousin and his wife (i mentioned in a post awhile back) are having twins. She is due 6 weeks ahead of me (exactly 6 wks). She went to the dr. on Tuesday for a normal routine appointment and when they checked her she was dilated to a three. She is only 23 three weeks, so as most of you know, this is NOT good. They immediately sent her straight to Deaconess Women's Center (where she will be delivering) and put her on bedrest until the babies are born. She is cathed and everything so she will not even be getting out of bed to use the restroom. Please pray for these babies and for their parents to. Todd & Kayla are the parents and Tucker & Tillie are the babies. They have started the babies on steroids for their lungs to hopefully develop sooner. The dr's said if they are born now there is little to no chance of survival, born in 3-4 weeks the chance goes up to 50% and in 7-8 weeks it goes up to 90-95%. Of course we'd love for them to be born after that even, but right now they are shooting for AT LEAST 7-8 weeks. They have been on my mind constantly since I found out on Tuesday. I know that being pregnant myself is probably compounding all my thoughts and stresses for them. They have to take one day at a time and each day in their mommy's womb is one more day that they can grow and get stronger. They have also started her on magnesium sulfate to try and hold off any contractions. At this point she is not having any contractions (at least none are showing up on the monitors). Mag sulfate is bad bad bad and will probably make her very sick, so please pray for that as well. Todd works at Hoosier Energy in Petersburg and will be driving back and forth to the hospital so please pray for his safety as I know he is tired and worn out and worried about his wife and babies. I know this is all over the place, but I feel like I've been in constant prayer for them since I found out on Tues. afternoon when I got home from work. I spoke w/ Todd yesterday & he said he would keep me updated on any changes, but no phone calls and no changes is good news at this point.

Also, wanted to post some pictures of my little scarecrow. They got to dress up as scarecrows for pre-school today and they are going to get their faces painted & take pictures! He was so excited about this! He is normally very hard to wake up in the morning, but when I mentioned getting his scarecrow clothes on he sat straight up and popped out of bed... hmm, I'm wondering how I could get him to do that EVERY morning.

It looks like he is pouting, but he is trying to be a "scary" scarecrow :)

another scary one :)

I made him do a smile for me, and I love it!!