Week 35, Day 2

Yesterday was a banner day for Hannah. She got her first tub bath, and met her Grandma Minor at the same time. My mom and our friend Velma drove in from Shreveport to see Hannah, and we arranged their visit to coincide with "touch time" so they could see her while she was awake and alert, instead of wrapped up like a burrito. If you have high-speed internet, you can click here for another short video of Hannah looking around and sticking out her tongue.


Today, we went to Sandia and Sidney's wedding (two wonderful people I've had the pleasure to work with at TI for 7 and 10 years respectively), for feast and festivity that made our own wedding seem like a visit to the driver's license bureau. Carla got to see a lot of the TI crowd and do a lot of bragging about how well Hannah has been doing (OK, maybe I did a little of that, too). That probably seems weird to people that have just learned Hannah's in the hospital: "So, your newborn daughter is on oxygen and a feeding tube in the hospital, and you're happy about it?" Of course, it's all relative. Compared to where we were two months ago, we're walking on clouds today.

So it was even better when we stopped by to see Hannah after the wedding and found that she gained another ounce since yesterday and is now at 4 pounds 2 ounces. She was sound asleep, busy growing so she can come home sometime this winter.