Whoosh!

Wow, the weekend went by really quickly! Friday night both mommy and daddy stayed at the hospital with me. Mommy was really paranoid and didn't sleep very much because I had a new nurse on that mommy had never met before. Logically, all the nurses that work in the NICU are trained to care for micro-preemies like myself. However, mommy doesn't always think logically. She spent most of the night awake while daddy slept on the couch.

Daddy had to go to work on Saturday morning so he left around 4:30am and mommy moved to the couch. She slept for a little while longer, but she was still worried. Then Jen was my day nurse and mommy felt all better. Jen is excited that my room is going to have an animal theme....but she remains firm that I can not go to Africa with her!

Daddy came home from work at 10:15am and then he and I held each other for Kangaroo Care. I was squirmy and didn't breathe as often as a person should, so daddy was a litle worried about me. It turns out that I just had to poop...that always makes me stop breathing! Daddy's daddy, Grandpa Orr, came to visit while I was holding daddy. Mommy thought it was awesome that there was three generations in my room so she took a picture. Unfortunately, I'm so tiny that you can't really see me...so she'll take another picture of the three generations when I'm bigger.

After I was done holding daddy, My Sonya came to visit. Mommy and daddy were excited because My Sonya found out she won't ever have the mumps. She got lots of shots when she was little and when she was big, so she's immune to the mumps. Did you know that she hasn't gotten to see me since the day I came out of mommy?? I really missed her! Anyway, she came to visit me and I showed her how different I look now...I'm huge!!:)

She brought me presents too.....she hand sewed a quilt for me. She wouldn't ever tell mommy what the design was going to be early on, and then when mommy and me opened the bag...we saw ANIMALS!!!! It's awesome because it will match my room perfectly! My Sonya says that she laughed out loud long ago when mommy told her about the animal theme, because My Sonya had the same idea. My Sonya also got me a mommy and baby kangaroo stuffed animal set. Mommy and daddy thought it was so cute. My Sonya reminded mommy of their trip to Kohls when mommy bought the monkey mommy/baby set and My Sonya bought the Kangaroo mommy/baby set. That was when I was really tiny and still in mommy's tummy! I also got some shoes for when I'm big and a turtle book too:)

Grandma Domo came and visited with all of us. Jen, the nurse, scolded us for visiting too loudly so we decided to whisper. Then Grandma Orr showed up too, it was a huge party in my room. Grandma Orr didn't stay very long because she can visit every day. Grandma Domo left after being here for almost two hours. My Sonya, and mommy and daddy left me with Jen to see if they could show My Sonya the house. The old owners weren't home so they just peeked at the backyard and then they went to the Home Depot to look at paint colors. After they came back to the hospital, we visited some more and then mommy, daddy, and My Sonya ate dinner in the cafeteria...then My Sonya went home.

My night nurse was Sue and she's good with me too. Because mommy and daddy trust Sue to take good care of me, daddy actually talked mommy into sleeping at home. This was the first night in over a month that mommy slept at home instead of the hospital!When she came back to me this morning, mommy told me she did pretty good, but woke up at 2:00 AM and had a really hard time going back to sleep. She wanted to call me to see how I was doing, but didn't want Sue to think she was paranoid, so she forced herself back to sleep. Mommy then woke up at 4:30am and 6:00am so she called Sue at 6:00 and I was doing really good.

Mommy and daddy came back to my room this morning and sat with me for a couple hours, then went back home to clean some and do laundry. After the laundry was done they came back to me and stayed the rest of the day with me. They felt comfortable leaving to do the laundry because Karee was my nurse. Karee calls me Bubba and laughs a lot because daddy calls me a "crap factory". Karee thinks it's an appropriate name because I poop a lot. Karee thinks I'm stinky!!! :)

Tonight I have Tiffany as my nurse and she's the burrito roll queen. Because Tiffany is so good to me, daddy has once again talked mommy into sleeping at home. Mommy is a little bit worried though, because she has to go to work tomorrow for the whole day. That means if she leaves tonight, she won't see me until after 5:00pm on Monday. She's going to go through Zander withdrawl, I bet you!

I've had a pretty good weekend. My blood gas was so good Sunday morning that my doctor #2 lowered my ventilator settings. My blood gas this evening wasn't so good, but the doctor said I was probably still getting used to my new vent-settings, so I'll have another blood gas at midnight. Tonight is Sunday night and on Sundays I always get weighed and measured. Mommy and daddy are hoping that I'm taller than 13 inches this week because I haven't grown taller yet. We all know I'm gaining good weight, but it will be interesting to see how much I weigh too. I'll let you know tomorrow!!!!!

Well, it's time for me to eat so I'm going to bug Tiffany for some mommy juice!!! See you soon:)