ants

tonight is owen's 18th night at children's mercy. not sure how many it is for me but it really doesn't matter if part of your heart is here. during the week nick and i are doing every other night so noah and liv can sleep at home. on the weekends our family helps with liv and noah....so grateful for our family. natalie and my mom are still being a big help relieving me and nick at the hospital. jill has helped us a few times too!!! thanks everybody!!! as far as owen goes he is starting to show signs of getting better. his stool output is slowing down...yay!!! if it can get to 420 mls or under they will start to introduce food back to his body. it was 2000 mls when we brought him here and was hanging around 1000-1500 mls for awhile. but saturday it went down to 750 mls, sunday 620 mls and today i think it will be around 500 mls. so maybe one more day then they will start to feed him. he isn't talking about food as much as he was last week but hasn't stopped completely. he did start another weird thing....licking his hands. :-/ over the weekend he was really really crabby. i finally told him i was going to leave if he couldn't talk nicer to me. i get that he is mad and frustrated. i was trying to keep quite and just let him take his anger out on me but i can only take so much. he was a lot nicer when he realized he could be here alone. nothing a little threatening won't cure.....except for a stomach virus :-)

o-dawg being silly with jill

pall...owen has been loving the book. the airplane page is his favorite because he can pretend to eat the fish crackers


jill brought pirate patches.....arrrrgh!!!!

noah had to get in on the pirate action too!!!

noah being silly sitting in the window sill playing in the blinds. last wednesday night they had to move us to a new room because there were ants in our room. they were by the window and the bed that i sleep on. on the 5th floor, how does that happen?!?! but it was ok, we've enjoyed the change!!!