Priceless moments with Wrenn & Tanner

Today I had the opportunity to visit Wrenn again. Last time I visited it was late in the day and there was very little light so once I heard their trip to St. Louis was delayed we schedule a time so I could come visit again. When I first arrived Wrenn was resting with Nicole after getting her ready for her photos.Nicole mentioned a nurse...

Videos from my visit with Wrenn & Tanner

It was a pleasure to visit with the Parris family today in the NICU. I will have some great new photos of Wrenn & Tanner to share soon. While I continue to get the photos together to share online I thought I'd share these two cute impromptu videos of Wrenn and Tanner.As I mentioned to Nicole that I'd like to take a video she said that things have just been so crazy that they hadn't been able to take a video of Wrenn yet. So...

Still in Orlando

Hi everyone! Lisa M. here. I know you're all wondering what's going on. Well, Jason, Nicole and the kids are still in limbo. The transplant team in St. Louis is willing to take a look at Wrenn, but they'd like her to be a little bigger before she flies. She weighed in at 6 pounds 10 ounces on Thursday and they'd like her to be at least 8 pounds. In addition, she is fairly stable - her oxygen levels are fairly constant and...

Wrenn is Six Weeks Old Today

She's never seen her house. She's never slept in her crib. My heart breaks when I realize how long it will be until she does these things, even under the very best of circumstances.Please keep Wrenn and her family in your thoughts and prayers tonight. They hope to find out tomorrow that they have been accepted for transplant at St. Louis...

The Love Between Brother and Sister

Hold on to your heartstrings. Tanner paid a visit to the NICU a few days ago and was able to touch his sister Wrenn... for the very first time. In another reality, these siblings would have been together all day, every day, for the past six weeks. Instead, they are only able to share short moments together, once in a whi...

Sheridan Asks You to Help Baby Wrenn

What do you do when your 5 year old tells you she wants to help her friend Tanner help his sister? Here's what I do - pull out my video camera and start asking questio...

Wrenn's Golf Tournament

North Shore Golf Club in Orlando, Florida is hosting a golf tournament to benefit Wrenn Parris via the NTAF Southeast Lung Transplant Fund. The tournament will be on Saturday, July 17, 2010 - Shotgun start at 7:30 am. Each team of four costs $300. Hole sponsorships are available for $100 per hole. All proceeds will be sent to NTAF to go directly to Wrenn's medical expenses, and all donations are 100% tax-deductible. Thank...

The Amazing Amanda Kern Strikes Again!

It certainly would have been enough if all Amanda Kern did was that gorgeous and moving photo shoot for the Parris family. It was more than enough that she did the photo shoot and a blog entry to get the word out about Wrenn. None of us could have asked for more.But Amanda has done more. Much, much more.Today she put up a blog entry offering a giveaway of two free photo sessions, each worth $650, to be given away in a random...

Getting the Ball Rolling

Just a quick update to let everyone know that:1) Jason and LisaM got the National Transplant Assistance Fund (NTAF) site up and rolling, so donations can now be made directly through their website. There is a permanent link on the sidebar to the right.2) A Facebook page has also been set up. Please pass the link along to all your friends.We'll continue to update you all as regularly as possible.Many thanks to all of you who have...

Beauty and Hope

This morning I woke up to an email from LisaM (she wrote the first post here) with a link to the blog of a friend of hers who is a photographer. Her name is Amanda Kern, and she took some time yesterday to do a photo shoot in the NICU with Nicole, Jason, and Wrenn. She has posted some of what she shot on her blog and has written a lovely post about their experiences together. The pictures are incredibly moving and poignant (tissues...

For breath is life, and if you breathe well you will live long on earth. ~Sanskrit ProverbMy name is Lisa Macon. Nicole Parris is my friend.I met Nicole eight years ago in an online group on BabyCenter called “Trying To Conceive Again”. Most of the group members, including myself, were experiencing secondary infertility, struggling to have...