Friday... It's a great day to be alive...

No, nothing amazing happened today. I have just found myself singing the song "it's a great day to be alive" in my head all day. Why? Well the other day Mark and I were in the elevator and he started to sing it so of course I gave him a look like "what are you thinking... things aren't great" sort of look. He looked at me and said "I have a sexy wife and beautiful little boy... what more could I ask for?" Yes, that's the man I married... man I love him!

Well it has been two weeks since Ethan was born. Part of me thinks ugh it's only been two weeks! But part of me thinks ok well 2 weeks are down only 10 more to go (that is a rough estimate). At least the weather is starting to get nicer so in a few days I might feel like getting out for a walk. I am still recovering from the c-section but doing much better than I was.

I changed Ethan's diaper last night before I left and.... he pooped! He pooped a lot! It was meconium (this is the first poop babies have... it is getting rid of things he ingested while he was in my uterus) but that is a good thing. At least things are starting to move for him. He had only had 2 poops before this and that was the day they gave him the enema and it was just small amounts. So yeah for Ethan pooping! ;) The nurse told me this afternoon that she was going to give him an enema and I said "really, he pooped a lot last night, why do you need to give him one?" She said the nurse before her didn't tell her that and that she was going to review the notes of course before she gave it to him. Whew... Ethan's gotta be loving me today... I saved him from an enema ;)

This morning when I got the hospital the nurse updated me on everything that is going on with Ethan. She told me that he hadn't peed a whole lot last night so they have to put him back on his blood pressure medication. (This may not make sense to some people... it didn't to me so I asked why and now I can't remember... all this medical jargon is not for me!) Then she told me that they could here his heart murmur louder today. This may be because it's starting to close or it could be a few other things. She also told me that if it doesn't close that he will be flown to Seattle for surgery. She said not to think about it too much but that it is a possibility and that the reason he is on the ventilator is that it is harder for him to breathe with the heart murmur. She told me that when they fly him they will let both Mark and I fly with too. She said that Seattle is really good and pretty quick. So I was thinking like a day maybe two. Then she said about a week to a week and a half! UGH! Mark doesn't have a lot of time to take off work and I want him there in Seattle and I want him to have at least 2 weeks off when we finally get to take him home! Unpaid time off doesn't sound like a great idea either. I guess we will figure something out when the time comes... hopefully it doesn't come!

The nurse told me that she took a picture of Ethan this morning because he was just so cute curled up sucking on his binky and holding onto it with both hands. This is the picture:

They weighed him tonight and he was 3 pounds! Some of that is fluid though because he looked a little puffy but not a lot. So he definately has gained some weight and that too is a good thing!