Our little pirate!

Kale's nurses made him a sign since he opened his eye yesterday, I thought it was great!

I was terrified of blinding him, so I took a close up picture of the picture the nurses took.

Kale had a good holiday today. He had a stable day, which is always great. He stayed steady at 1 lb. 12 oz., gaining 10 grams. They did increase his feedings today, up to 9 mls every 3 hours, and it is still fortified with the formula to add calories to hopefully beef him up a bit.

As you read yesterday, Kale opened his right eye, and we're hoping the left is soon to follow! I got to see it today, it's a cute little eye :) The nurses will continue to keep it covered most of the time, taking off his band when we do our cares every 3 hours. They do this so he doesn't become overly stimulated as that can be incredibly stressful on these small babies. They don't have the ability to block anything out or multitask, so with the noise of the vent, noise of the doctors, smells and now sight.

I got to have another parenting experience today, which unfrotunately has to do with another dirty diaper...which I feel is becoming a trend. I was changing Kale's diaper and before I could finish he started pooping again! This continued for THREE diapers, as soon as I would get a new one on, but didn't quite have it latched and him clean, he would start going all over again!! What a stinker :)

Kale's blood gases were pretty good today, he was pretty stable with them. His heart rate has also been pretty high for him the past few days. He has been up in the low 100s - 110s over the weekend pretty consistently, which we're happy to see!

One of my good friends, Jacqui, came to meet Kale today. She brought all sorts of fun stuff for him, which included CAMO overalls from Bass Pro Shop!! She knows Derc well to know that he has been waiting to get his hands on some camouflage clothes for Kale. It was great to see her, and we got to do some shopping and grabbed some lunch. Derc got to see some of our friends today as well, Kyli and Ben who also just had a baby about a week before Kale came. Derc brought Mack out to their parent's farm where they were having a little pool party. Mack got to go with Derc and he enjoyed the day as well!

We hope everyone enjoyed their weekend, we had a nice time and Kale had a weekend full of milestones! We hope to see them continue, thank you for keeping him in your thoughts and prayers!