Update 4-18-Noon

Hi All,
Sorry for the long delay in posts, but everything is going really well. First of all the baby's name will be decided very soon, so hang in there with us on that front. Little Peanut as he is now reffered to by a couple of nurses, is doing great. He's now taking in breastmilk via a tube that goes through his nose down into his stomach. He seems to like the good stuff. They had to supplement him with some formula and he threw that up, so he definitely wants the good stuff. He takes it right down. His stats are right where they want them, he looks good and even started opening his eyes yesterday and looking around. Jessica got released yesterday and made it up to get her first real good look at the peanut. He opened his eyes right up when she started talking to him and he stared at her for a number of minutes. The sad thing is when he cries you can't hear him due to the tube he is intubated with. So you see this sad face crying away with no sound. Poor guy. Jess is doing well, a bit sore, but well.

I was here for rounds yesterday morning which is an interesting scene. About 10-12 people surround the bed and just get crazy with medical info. There's Attendings, Fellows, Residents, Nutrionists, Respiratory, etc. There's all these numbers and terminology flying around, its impressive.

We spent our first night back at home yesterday since Monday night. It was nice to sleep in your own bed but it was weird to be away from the peanut. Even though he is doing fine you feel like you need to be there. But we have to remember that we need to be good to go for Monday's surgery day and we have to make sure Cooper is doing great too. I finally saw him yesterday morning for the first time which was great, he went to visit Jess in the hospital on Thursday.
Thanks so much to both our families for helping to take care of Coop during these crazy days.
Coop was able to come up and see his little bro for the first time. Coop was able to touch his foot and offered his little bro his "Doggie". Although I think the only reason he did that was to try to steal one of his little bro's new toys sitting at the end of his bed. The hospital occasionally brings little gifts to each child in here. Peanut has received a black lab stuffed dog, an elmo book and the coolest thing, a stuffed Survival Flight helicopter and his own pair of SF wings, brought to him by the SF nurse, Polly. Its too cool!

Jess and I will be trying to get a room at the hospital hotel for Monday and Tuesday, Monday being surgery day. Just so were close by for the big day. We are really confident that everything is going to be just fine and we'll have a healthy peanut in no time. I consider us very lucky as I've met some parents here who are just in so, so much worse situations, its so sad. I'll continue to say this, thanks to all of you for your well wishes, prayers, offerings to help us out, etc, it has truly, truly helped!