Better day!

Ok, so today was a totally different story. Elijah was happy and rested and a total peach for the entire day! He is still drinking a lot less fluid, but I think that's because he's eating more solids. He can eat SO MUCH solid food. He'll just keep going and going. So now we need to find a good balance so he still gets enough liquids. He suddenly just doesn't seem to be interested in his bottle. At all! And he doesn't have the hang of the sippy cup yet, so it's a bit frustrating trying to get liquids in his belly. He just wants to eat all the good stuff!

Thanks for all of your wonderful, encouraging comments. Kathy, you are right. This IS how it goes when babies are in heart failure. For as low as Elijah's sats are, I can't believe he's as "healthy" as he is. We are really very lucky in so many ways. I have no idea why he's not blue! He wasn't blue a year ago, either, when his sats were running between 65% and 69%. Weird!?

I know that if I called the Gman tomorrow, he would tell me, "I expect him to get more tired and to have a general decline in health over the next weeks. See you on March 19th!" So I think I'll hold off on calling unless something drastic happens.

We got out today and went to the Mall of America to have lunch and walk around a bit. I finally used my Christmas money from Dan's parents and bought a $98 pair of jeans! That's totally ridiculous, but Lucky Jeans are just so comfortable and they fit me perfectly. I hadn't bought a new pair of jeans in three years! THAT'S ridiculous. I'm so bad when it comes to buying clothes for myself. Anyway, Elijah was awesome and chilled in his stroller like a good boy. I love how he always puts his arm over the edge and opens his hand like he's feeling the wind move through his fingers.

Oh, have I mentioned that we're going to Florida this week? WE'RE GOING TO FLORIDA THIS WEEK! We leave on Wednesday and get home on Sunday. I'm going to a work conference and my boys are going to come with me! I'm really excited about the conference I'll be attending, and I'm also excited for WARM WEATHER. This has been one of the coldest winters I can remember in the eight years I've lived here. It's been ridiculous! I will have a little bit of free time, so we plan on going to the beach and soaking in the sun. We have to store up for the rest of dreadful winter. I have to say, though, it was actually very nice out today. It was like 20 degrees! It felt like we were in the tropics.

Here are some cute pics I took today.


I know I'm biased, but is that not the most beautiful face you've ever seen?


Mommy didn't comb my crazy hair today!


There's a funny story behind this picture. The red ball Elijah appears to be eating is a birthday gift from Auntie Lissa (which he absolutely LOVES, by the way) that sings the alphabet when you spin it around. So Elijah has these two other little balls that he loves to hold in his hands. If he drops one, he freaks out and picks it up quickly. He doesn't like to be without them, if they are in the vicinity. So he had one ball in each hand, as usual, but also wanted to spin the new cool ball to make it sing. He looked at each hand, looked at the big new fun ball and lowered his head and tried to spin it with his face so he wouldn't have to drop the littler balls out of his hands. I think I laughed for 10 minutes.






LOOK AT THOSE THUNDER THIGHS. I LOVE IT!


Can I bite into those?