My grandma Karen and my mommy posted another picture of me. It took them a long time to do it. They tried to make it bigger, but it kept disappearing. Grandma Karen finally got the picture bigger, but now it's just kinda fuzzy. But at least you can see what my sleeping arrangements are like.

The white strip across my mouth is the ventilator. The bar with the straps is attached to my tummy thing, and it helps to 'feed' everything back into my belly. There is a heart monitor, another kind of monitor (I haven't figured that one out yet), the big, fat needle 'pik' line, and a tube that goes into my mouth, and down into my tummy to empty out anything that's not supposed to be there. My mommy has better pictures, and she will post them later (it will probably take a little longer if my grandma Karen decides to "help").

Yesterday, my "gas" level was "off," so the doctors decided to turn up my ventilator. But it's OK this morning. My mommy and daddy came to see me yesterday evening. My mommy was holding my hand almost the whole time they were there. She said I didn't really like it, but she made me do it cuz she can't pick me up and hold me yet. Mommies are sometimes like that. The nurse who was taking care of me last night called in a couple of other nurses to show them how cute I was! Thank goodness they can look past the big ole tummy thing.

I have had lots of visitors. My grandmas and my grandpas, my aunt and my uncle, and lots of friends. My new friends Emily and Krista came in to see me today. They didn't bring their babies with them though. I can hardly wait to meet Emily's little girls, Natalie and Madeline. Madeline is only about seven months older than me, and I think we will be good friends. Natalie is Madeline's older sister, and she will be two this summer. They both go to the same church my mommy and daddy go to--which is the one I will start going to as soon as I bust out of this hospital!