Wedensday Evening

Here's our little boy basking in his own glory... ain't he cute!

His billiruben levels have dropped considerably in the last day, from a high of about 17 yesterday, to about 11 today. We've had several poopy diapers which we're very happy about since that helps move it all out of his system. Cammy was even singing a 'I love poopy diapers' song earlier today, which I tried to video tape to remind her of in a few months...

Reed is feeding very well, and is much more active... he's been pulling the monitor leads off his chest, as if he's saying "I'm fine...". It's kind of funny, the monitor goes into alarm mode and starts beeping, then we see Reed squirming around with a wire in his hand and a grin on his face... At four days old, I fear what he'll be getting into by the time he's two!

Also, some of you have asked if there is any way you can help. Mary Lou mentioned this in a previous post, but I would like to reiterate it. If you would like to help us, we ask that you make a small donation ($10 or so) to either the NICU here at Tacoma general, (you can google for the weblink), or to a similar Childrens hospital charity. We've been helped considerably by donations like this that have been made in the past, so we encourage all of you to help parents like us in the future. Also specifically, the NICU here at TG is short on Baby hats, so you can also help by either mailing them, or dropping them off here at Tacoma general.

Thanks so much for all your thoughts and all your kind words. We're really fortunate and thankful to have such caring and supportive friends, family, and coworkers. We love you all.