Little Miss Sunshine is a night owl!

When I went to visit Summer Friday, I walked in to see her wiggling all over her bed and squawking a little. I picked her up and she was very soggy. The nurse came in and we changed her all the down to her bed. She pooped! Yeah again :) It had been a couple of days since they started her food, so this was great. Now they are watching to make sure she doesn't do this too often...though they want to see her bowels moving, they don't want the food to run through too quickly and dump...leaving all the vital nutrients behind. Since Summer's intestines haven't been used fjor some time, the villi (little hairs) that are inside the intestine and help move the food through slowly enough to process it, are gone. It will take a few weeks for more villi to reproduce inside and help larger amounts and higher fat content breast milk to be processed.

After we changed her, Summer was very alert and stayed that way for most of my visit...I took advantage of it and got a few very concentrated shots :) She was staring intently at something behind me...so hard, she went a little cross eyed...her eyes even look like they might be blue!

I just recently returned from the hospital...yes, it is now 1:49 AM on Sunday! Ok, I have been home for almost an hour. By the time I changed for bed, took out my contacts, shut all the windows, turned off all the lights, locked all the doors, turned of the back sprinkler the kids left on (these are all things my hubby doesn't notice on the way to bed :)), plugged in my computer, pulled out the milking machine and strapped on the ol' pumping bra, I had managed to kill almost one whole hour, wow. Time really does fly when you are having fun, haha.

I decided to go on my weekly Sat. visit with one of the boys last night and didn't get out the door with little Tom until almost 6:30 PM. We grabbed Arby's and got to the hospital around 7:30. Summer was wide awake when we got there. Apparently she thinks nightime is playtime. I have never seen her eyes open for so long and have her be so alert. The nurse said she was pretty crabby last night and stayed awake a lot...I have heard that from several night nurses. I decided, and told her this, that the nurses need to get her straightened out before she comes home....ha ha, we both said, good luck with that! I changed her diaper and clothes and held her for a while...she went to sleep...then little Tom held her and she slept some more. We decided to leave before the UW Huskies game (right around the corner) was let out. Traffic is horrid...

She's a real girl now! So cute

Little Tom hasn't seen Summer for a few weeks...he said, "she's not even one and she is so huge!" He is very cute with her

We didn't make it. Despite getting out on the road before the game let out, they still had everything barricaded and re-routed by the time we got out there. We grabbed a milkshake from Burgermaster and ended up going in circles for almost an hour before I just decided to head back to the hospital away from the traffic, and wait it out. By this time, it was around 11 PM. Little Tom and I headed back upstairs and stayed until almost midnight. Summer needed to be changed again and woke up. I held her up to help her balance her neck and patted her over my knee. These are normal baby things I haven't been able to do with her because she is always so sleepy during the day. We've gotta change that for sure! When she comes home, I will be a walking zombie if I don't get sleep at night for sure :) I also got to see her weighe...Summer is now about 6 pounds, 7 ounces...of course I took pictures...the poor girl is going to get camera flash burns some time soon!

She likes it when the nurse sits her up...she can hold her head up a little

Mom, Summer, and little Tom

Summer is now 6 pounds 8 ounces!

They had weaned Summer's oxygen to around 26%, on 1 liter, and low flow. This is where Dr. Jackson wanted to see her before she gets transferred to the floor (out of the ICU), so maybe she will be transferred very soon :) There has also been the breast milk debate...whether or not she will be able to take it. It sounds like they might possibly try her on it in a few weeks, so the pumping continues...I hope my freezer holds up, haha...