Sunday June 15, 2008

Happy 1st Father’s Day Joe! It was an eventful day as I had expected given the routine last couple of days. Maggie finally hit her 3 pounds!! The girls were again thoughtful and made cute Father’s Day cards for their Dad. Grandma Bev and Grandpa Rich drove up for the day to see the girls – the girls really do make a lot of progress in 3 weeks. So Grandma Bev got to hold Evie and Mom held Maggie while the Dads went and played a round of golf.

Evie decided to make a big leap today and move from her CPAP to a nasal cannula!! This is an exciting step for Evie because she has been such an oxygen hog and needing the air pressure (which had also kept her at nice regular breathing). But as we experienced with Maggie, we expect Evie to go back and forth between her CPAP and cannula as she gets used to lower pressure. Evie did well for a little bit – she had her eyes open for Grandma Bev and thought Grandma was funny (or at least she smiled at her jokes). But then she had a few spells where she forgot to breathe nicely, so we had to put her back to bed a little earlier than originally planned. It is hard work breathing on your own, and so we did notice that her breaths were faster and shallower, but it just takes practice and she’ll get the hand of it. We were happy to see that she was still “rockin the cannula” as Joe puts it at 9pm!

Of course, little Maggie was being an angel all afternoon; she was much calmer in contrast to her squirminess the last few days. She also had a change and got to move her cannula pressure from .3 cm2 to .2 cm2, which means she is getting closer to breathing without assistance. Maggie was so good that when the men visited after golfing, she got to go snuggle with Grandpa Rich. I think it was a good Father’s Day for all.