MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

So here we are, having Christmas in Cincinatti, and unable to be together as a family... but we're thrilled to be sitting where we are! Gretta probably won't remember it anyway... :) We've been generously given gifts for the girls through RMH, and we even got two big bags of gifts for us last night too- lots of toiletries, some gloves, a picture album, puzzle books, and a *bunch* of other stuff. They also included 2 disposable cameras, which is a good thing since we won't have our camera here for another few days until it arrives in the mail, so we'll be able to take some Christmas pictures! Guess we won't be able to share them though, since they're on film instead of digital... Again, I'm just floored by the amount of generosity through RMH.

Emma Kate had a good day yesterday, she even had a nap in the afternoon and then was awake for the evening hours, falling asleep around 9:30 or so. She slept through the night (sounds like she just awoke enough to open her eyes and look around before falling asleep again), and is still asleep at a little past 10am today. Hopefully this time around we'll have an easier time with awake/asleep times. I'm tempted to wake her up and get Christmas going! (Gretta even said it was ok for Emma Kate to open her gifts for her this morning...)

Not a lot of excitement plan-wise, I think we're just working on weaning her off the nasal canula today (she is down to 5L 30% now) and increasing her enteral feeding so that we can start to back off of the TPN. They're also talking about switching her back to oral meeds as well, instead of IV. Hopefully her little belly will tolerate everything and get things going ok.