Obligatory end-of-weekend update

I'm so nice to all of you who will go to work on Monday morning and eagerly pounce on the blog as your first way to waste time during the week. Well, I appreciate your patronage anyway.

So good news: he didn't need his feeding tube all day today! That's excellent. We're praying that he'll get through the night okay and then we'll just have to do tomorrow and we're home free.

It's funny, but we almost don't want to even say that out loud because we're afraid that it'll somehow jinx the whole process. It's a silly thought, but after a week now of this whole back-and-forth to the hospital business we're almost used to it as a regular way of life. But we'd much prefer getting used to him being home as the regular way of life.

Anyway, Steph stayed at the hospital for the whole day and monitored the feeding process. The nursery at LMH has a little "Care By Parent" room off to the side where the kids in the nursery are, well, cared for by their parents. Right. Anyway, it was really nice to be able to wheel his cot in there and just hang out with him all day. It was away from the other babies and the nurses (and the soft rock music they insist on playing in there--if Theo comes home a Celine Dion fan there's going to be a lawsuit involved) and it was just really cool. We're pretty pumped, but like I said we don't want to get too high, just in case.

Funny story: Steph went in really briefly tonight to replenish his food supply and talked to the nurses who are caring for him. Apparently he had a little sneezing fit and sneezed his whole feeding tube right out of his nose. That's right, the whole tube that goes through his nose into his stomach. He sneezed it right out. Completely. I tell you, they should introduce an infant class at the Olympics. My kid would be coming home with medals. Not sure what sport, but there has to be something that uses a talent like that.

Okay, that's all for tonight. Sorry, no pictures because I'm just too tired to wait for the interminable amount of time it takes for this site to upload them. Maybe some more tomorrow. Talk to you soon.