Maybe breathing is for cool kids, after all

Owen's off the vent!!! He's just got a nasal cannula now, and boy is he good at pulling it out. I think he's even got the idea that he's not supposed to, because he tries to get all sneaky about it...he stretches his arms out and then grabs the tubing on his way down like a cheesy date at a movie theater trying to put his arm around you. Then, when the cannula goes back in, he gets little sneezing fits. Other good news - his heart murmur is entirely gone.

We may get to hold him tomorrow - fingers crossed. Adam's a little sick from his TDAP shot yesterday (btw, if you plan on visiting for any length of time, I will insist on you having a whooping cough vaccine) so he's been booted from the NICU until 24 hours after his fever goes down, which hopefully is like...right now. As long as he can't visit Owen though, I'll be taking an extra crazy amount of pictures and video, so I guess you all benefit from Adam feeling under the weather.

I'd say he looks a lot happier off the vent - what do you think?

 

Oh. My. Gah. That is one handsome kid.

Fingers are delicious.

I know babies aren't supposed to be able to smile, but that sure looks like one content kid.

 

Hiccups!

 

Keep an eye out for a good eyebrow raise at the end.

Sorry, bandwidth, I know.