Pint-sized Peanut

"I, Madeleine Rose, solemnly swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth...this shirt fits me. OH NOES! I already lied!! Mr. McBearenstein told me to say it!!"

This shirt, as I held it up, looked so tiny, I thought for SURE it would fit her. Nope, it goes all the way down to her ankles! But, it has ruffled sleeves and sorta looks like a little white dress. Seriously, it will make you go..."Oooh!! So cute!!"

Madeleine has "graduated" into the next size up of diapers....she's proved through multiple sessions of peeing past her diapers' capacity and onto the sheets below that she requires a higher level of absorption! Of course, they're big on her like everything thing else these days...but a bed change every 3 hours is not optimal. I'm sure Peanut just wants to see just how many cute beds her nurse friends can throw together for her....she loves all the fun colors and can't resist! "Hmm...I'm tired of these sheets with the bunnies on them, what else have ya got?!"

Peanut hasn't had many changes lately. No big ones rather. They've been weaning her vent slowly. Last night they dropped the breath rate from 40 to 37 to make her start breathing on her own a little more. She's been doing it unless she's totally zonked out...then she lets the vent do all the work. Get it while you can, girl. We'll do anything for Peanut, but you have to breathe on your own! Hopefully she will tolerate it and take these little steps toward "tube freedom". I'm not sure what she'll do with her hands once Mr. Tube is gone? But once it is gone...we'll hear her make noise...that will be really wild! It's been easier on *me* to not hear her crying through all the things she has deal with every day. It's hard enough seeing her make the "cry face".

Auntie Shannon is coming over today to scrape wallpaper, Peanut! Here's the colors we'll some day paint it...hope you like them! (If not, you know mommy will just repaint it!)