a breath of fresh air

Big news of the day is that her nasal cannula (the tube in her nose that was helping her breath) was removed and she's doing fine breathing on her own.  Short pause while everyone does a happy dance in celebration.

Okay, that was good.  Nice dancing, guys.  

In other news she is now weighing in at a whopping 3 lbs 10 oz.  Now for the pictures (that's what you came here for, right?)  Today's guest photographer is my friend Sonja who drove up from Louisiana to help me put the nursery in order and to drive me around while Dug is at work this weekend.  

This was first thing in the morning while she still had her nose thingy in place.  Holding her this evening without the nose thingy and with a smaller feeding tube was much, much easier.  

She's learning how to suck using this purple pacifier.  They put the pacifier in her mouth while she's getting food through her tube so that she can associate sucking with food.  Doctors and nurses are so smart! 

This is right after the tube thingy came out of her nose but before the smaller feeding tube went in.  

This was probably my favorite picture of the day.  She was pretty alert --looking around a  lot and doing some finger sucking right before meal times.