How to Help

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The boy's room is framed in
 and ready for the sliding door.

We are currently working on
framing in the front wall. 
The offerings of support from our friends and family have been nothing less than humbling and astounding. We are truly blessed to be surrounded by such loving and caring people. But while nearly everyone has offered some kind of help, we have been reluctant to act on anything solely because we did not know exactly what kind of help we needed. 

 Now that the twins are more stable in the NICU and we have been able to breathe a little easier and actually get a few hours of restful sleep, we have been able to reflect on our situation and identify where and how we need help. Before last week happened, we had been on track to finish the remodel of our house before the expected term delivery date. Since the boys were born so early, we have no choice but to adjust and increase our insurance which all but wipes out our budget to finish the remodel. We have found three areas we need help:

1.    Financial Assistance. As you can imagine, having two babies in the NICU for three to four months puts us in a deep and unexpected hole with medical bills and travel expenses. In order to get the house ready for the boys to come home, we still have a lot of materials to buy in order to finish our house. We also need to buy two of everything for their nursery.

2.    Time and Work. Building our home, the way we want has been a project we have treasured doing together. We have made every effort to do all phases of this project ourselves, but now that Em is recovering from a C-section and will be in Seattle with the boys for much of the coming months, we will need some physical help. If you can help on an occasional weekend, please let Emily know. You can email her at eathilo@gmail.com or text her at 206-384-2391.

3.    Welcome home Elan and Quin! If all goes well, the doctors anticipate the boys will graduate from the NICU in October. When we have a relative date, we will add typical baby items to this registry and send out details for a welcome home and thank you party that we will throw at our (hopefully) finished house.

Here is the link to the registry we set up: https://www.babylist.com/thilo-boys

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