Happy Birthday Jordan!

I want to start by saying HAPPY BIRTHDAY JORDAN!!!!! It's our wonderful nephew's 2nd birthday today and we're so glad that we got to go to CR yesterday to help celebrate! My sister and Justin did a wonderful job putting his party together and my mom made him the cutest cake. He got lots of fun stuff, and we were so happy we could help celebrate! We didn't bring Mack this year, so there was no opportunity for him to eat any cakes...

Well folks...Kale has a BIG BOY bed! We got to the hospital today and he is OUT of the incubator and has his very own crib :) He was doing well controlling his own temperature so they are letting him try out a crib, and they will just take his temp every 3 hours to make sure he's doing well.

His lungs seem to be holding steady, he was turned down to 4 lpm this morning and he had a blood gas about 2 hours after they turned his flow down and it was great! He is officially off steroids, so this is a pretty big week for him. He has been on some form of steroids for about 3-4 weeks now, so we're hoping that his body keeps the forward momentum going. The Dr. said that about 1/3 of the babies that get steroids improve for good, another 1/3 lose about half of the progress they made and the other 1/3 rebound all the way back to where they started. You better believe that we are hoping and praying that Kale is in that first 1/3 that have improved for good! Kale will have a gas in the morning and will probably stay at 4 lpm for a few days to see how he does. He had a spell today, where his HR dropped to the high 50s, but we were in there and so was the nurse and he came right out of it. So far he has had 3 spells, so about 1 every other day.

He is still gaining weight, so he's really starting to fill out the clothes that he has! He is up to 3 lbs. 12 oz. now - hard to believe he has gained over 2 lbs since he was born! We're hoping that he hits 4 lbs. by next weekend.

We got a chance to speak with one of Kale's Dr.'s today, and we were really pleased with what he had to say. He said that he felt Kale was doing well and said when he first saw Kale those first few weeks he was very worried since he was a '24 weeker whose mom didn't have a chance to get steroids and had a heart block', but now he is very optimistic about his future. He said that if Kale continues to do as well as he has been we may be able to take him home in 4-6 weeks :):):) He is now 33 weeks gestational age and so that would put him right around his due date.

Thats about all from the weekend. I go back to work tomorrow, hard to believe it's already been 8 weeks! It will probably be tough, but I know that we have the BEST support system we could ask for....and I have the NICU on speed dial :)

Thanks for checking in, we appreciate your continued support and know that Kale is doing as well as he is because we have all of you thinking of and praying for him to get better!