Good morning to all

I was not able to post yesterday. I am sure you all know that. I made a trip home to get clothes for work. I also was able to get some stuff done around the house that really needed to be done. So I have some catching up to do today. Below is a picture of Garet and Daddy. They had so much fun sitting there playing with each other. It really feels like he is starting to get better since we can hold him. Yesterday while I was in town and daddy was working Grandma Rose got to hold and rock Garet during the day. Now that he knows he can get out of bed he can really throw a fit trying to get us to get him out of bed. I don't blame him though. Being in bed all day long is no fun. We try to take him out as much as we can but not get him to stirred up.

Yesterday when I got back to the hospital Garet had a nice clean face. They had taken out the feeding tube. Since it has been a few days now since we started to bottle feed him they thought it would be safe to take if out. They also had him on room air instead of Oxygen. So he does not have to have anything breathing assistance at all right now. He has been off the Oxygen for about 18 hours now. We are very hopeful that he will not have to go back on the Oxygen. Below is a picture of his clean face and his little body with a lot less wires and tubes everywhere. They now have him on three medicines that he is taking by mouth. Instead of the 13+ IV's that he was on at the beginning, he is now only on 3 IV meds. They are hoping to have him down to only 2 here in the next couple days.

He is now only hooked to very few machine and most of them are just for monitoring things not for assistance. He is now down to being hooked up to the heart monitor, two different IV lines one in his right arm and one in his left leg, the blood pressure cuff (They take this off every once in a while to give him a break),thermometer line that is on the bottom of his right foot, and a Oxygen sensor that is on his right foot. Below is one of the first pictures that we took after they got him all hooked up to everything. I know most of you have seen this but I just wanted to show you how much better he is looking now. All the prayers that everyone has been sending are really doing so much for him.

We have a new favorite toy. We are not able to have any flowers or plant in the PICU so Grandma bought a balloon. He loved to look at it and laughed when it would move. I thought I would see if he would hold it and for sure he would. He is learning when he moves his arm the balloon moves. He will sit there and play with his balloon for as long as his little hand will hold it. He has not learned how to put the string in his mouth so he is good to play as long as he wants to right now.