Happy 2 week birthday to me!

I turned 2 weeks old today. It was a pretty good birthday if you ask me. Mommy, daddy, and I seem to be getting used to the whole "being in the hospital" feeling. Mommy and daddy are getting more sleep and are trying to remain calm and relaxed. Today I got another developmental evaluation and the specialist told mommy and daddy that they seem to know my likes and dislikes really well. She was really impressed with how daddy changed my diaper and contained me while the nurse messed with me. And she kept asking mommy and daddy about my cares and I gotta tell ya, I was impressed too because mommy and daddy are beginning to understand all the machines and what all the numbers mean. Mommy and daddy are the best parents in the world for me....and they are only for me, so you can't have them!!!!

My Grandma Orr came to visit me today, she was so excited that my eyes were open!!! She took a CD with her that has a whole bunch of pictures of me on it. She's gonna get them printed out for herself and mommy. Mommy has been trying to make me a scrap book, but she says it's a lot more tough than it looks. She only says that because she doesn't have any fashion sense and in order to scrap book you have to match colors and designs together. I promised her I would love the scrap book no matter how silly it looked.....I also promised not to laugh, but I might not be able to keep that promise!

One of mommy's co-workers came to visit briefly today. She wanted to peek at me so daddy let her see me because mommy was in the shower. Mommy's boss also came to see me today. Well actually, she needed to pick up a letter from mommy for work, but she got to see me too because I was out of my bed and holding mommy at the time.

Mommy and daddy's realtor showed up to pick up some paperwork so she could help out by taking it to the bank. The day mommy went into the hospital, she was supposed to meet with the banker to get approved for a home loan. Unfortunately that got put on hold since I decided to grace the world with my presence a lot too early! Mommy is going to meet with the banker after daddy gets off work on Wednesday to sign all the paperwork, and then Grandpa Hewlitt is gonna look at some houses for mommy and daddy so they can stay at the hospital as much as possible. Grandpa Hewlitt is smart with houses, he knows what things can be fixed and what things will always be broken unless you pay lots and lots of money. Plus, he's retired now and needs stuff to do sometimes so he doesn't get bored.

The house hunt is really on because daddy doesn't want me to have to crawl up and down three flights of stairs to the small one bedroom apartment that mommy and daddy have now...daddy thinks I'll get too tired and fall asleep somewhere on the stairs and then get stepped on by a neighbor. I think that might hurt some!

So anyway, back to my day. Mommy and I held each other for almost 3 hours today and I was a wiggly worm the whole time. Mommy kept laughing because I was tickling her skin with my fingers. Then I burped on her. It wasn't my fault, but I got mommy really good with mommy juice!!! The nurse gave me a mommy juice lollipop...she re-soaked it in mommy's juice three times...so I got to suck a lot out of the lollipop (usually I just get one soak). Then right after that, the nurse fed me 10 CCs of mommy's juice through my NG tube. I finished it all, but my tummy was really full and I had to burp. It was such a big burp that mommy felt my whole little body move and then all the sudden she had mommy juice streaming down her neck. It was only the stuff that I was sucking on in my mouth so it wasn't that much, but mommy said it was really cold and wet!!! That was my first burp in the real world...I bet I will be able to do better burps than daddy does someday!

Well, I should go because mommy wants to see my eyes open more. I just wanted to let all of you wonderful people who care about me know that I made some progress! I Love you!

The doctors keep working to ween me off the ventilator, and I'm tolerating their changes most of the time. My doctor told daddy today that mommy and daddy should look at me as an athelete. In my case, I'm not running a sprint to the finish-line, I'm running a long marathon where I need to conserve my energy and pace myself. My doctor likes putting everything into perspective...He's silly like that! But, he agrees with mommy that I'm the cutest baby in the whole world, so I'll keep him around:)