A Birthday Surprise for David

Last night David and I were fortunate enough to get one of the hospital's sleep rooms (a place for parents of NICU/pediatric kids to spend the night - 3 bedrooms with one shower room). We have to fill out a request sheet each day that we want to spend the night, submit it to the NICU secretaries then wait til around 3pm to see if we get it. So yeah...

Back to the surprise:
This morning, even after her surgical procedure just the night before, Ella was taken off the oscillator ventilator and moved to the respirator. She was doing so well that she just didn't need that noisy old oscillator anymore. What a fabulous present! Especially when we had no idea that this was going to happen. (It was certainly a better present than I've ever given David.)

Also, we learned that BOTH babies would get to try breast milk today. Up until now, they have only been given a solution of fat, protein, and carbohydrates via IV.

Of course as well as it looks at this moment, we have learned that things change all the time. Don't get me wrong, we are still full of hope (and faith) that we'll all be happily going home in April.