Birthday wish in honor of Ryan...

Attention all friends and family! I know this is short notice but I have been working a lot lately on special ways we can honor Ryan on his birthday coming up and after talking with the Assistant Nurse Manager of the NICU at UWMC the past few days she said the best and most useful way would be to donate fleece baby blankets and preemie layette's. I have a special plan for embroidering four blankets to be given to families in need representing the four days we had with Ryan with a special word embroidered representing the four main precious things he taught us : hope, strength, love and courage! Each blanket will come with Ryan's story.

I thought I would let family and friends know that if they wanted to celebrate Ryan's birthday with us by honoring him and serving another family they could bring by (or mail us) a fleece baby blanket, they prefer fleece because it keeps the preemies warmer outside the incubator, or a preemie layette that families will be a able to choose from for their babies, to our home before August 17th (before noon). We will be at UWMC the 17th in the late afternoon for my OB appointment and will distribute these gifts to the NICU then to be distributed on August 21, 22, 23 and 24... the four days of Heaven we call them, the four days we had with him. SO we love this and think it's a great way to honor Ryan and help other families. Hope you do too. Thank you!! Let me know if you have any questions :)

Everyone I forgot to mention books! The NICU has a library for the families, especially the siblings of the babies, and donated books can have "in memory of" stickers placed inside to honor Ryan. Thanks!