What a day..

Today was one of those days that totally surprise you. I woke up and prayed that I would just make it through. I was discouraged after yesterday and I'm still so tired, and I just prayed for strength and courage to get through without crying. Well when we got to the hospital little miss was all bundled up and sleeping. She looked so sweet and peaceful. Then the nurse cam over and told us about her night. Apparently she had a party in her incubator because the nurse said her bundles were all pushed sideways, her gel packs were all over the place and her wires were all kinds of tangled. We got a real kick out of this because she is always so out of it that we can't believe that she would be able to do all that.

The rest of the morning was pretty uneventful except the blow out in Charli's diaper that I was fortunate enough to get to change. It took 3 diapers to get it right! The nurse, Patty, the same one who was there when Reagan came on Sunday, packed Reagan up a whole mess of stuff for her baby dolls, from leads to pacifiers and bottles and diapers. It was so sweet. The reason she gave her all this stuff is because we told her about the incubator Reagan made for Charli in her room:

Cutest thing ever right?

Our afternoon was so much more eventful. When we got there Miss Charli was wide awake, which is so rare. We did our temp and diaper duty then waited on the nurse to come over. When she did we were in for a big surprise. They decided to try and move Charli to a regular crib and discontinue her IV!! How exciting! Of course, we were told this was just a trial to see how she does. But her temperature has been staying up and her heat on her incubator has been going lower and lower, so we definitely think she was ready.

All this news and excitement got everyone distracted getting ready for the big move, and Charli was late getting her dinner. Well, we finally got to see a little bit of that temper we've been hearing so much about and let me tell you, the girl can get mad. There were a lot of things that had to be done before she could make the big move such as weighing her, picking out clothes(!), checking her glucose, and checking her temp again. While the nurse was doing all of this she gave me just a little milk in a small bottle to see if she would take it to knock the edge off of her hunger since we couldn't feed her until she had been weighed. She did so good sucking on her little bottle. Even though she didn't get much down, it was still really encouraging to see her sucking away like she knew exactly what she was doing! Daddy got to hold her while her bed was being made and she stayed so alert and wide awake during this whole process. It's so sweet to see her looking around with those little eyes.

She finally got weighed (up to 3lb 8oz today) and then got to put her first clothes on! They put her in her bed and snuggled her all up so she wouldn't be cold and able to pass her temperature test later. So to recap, today Charli:

• Took a bottle for the first time
• Wore clothes for the first time
• Moved out of the incubator to a real crib
• Had her IV discontinued 

We called to check on her at 9pm and she had passed two temp tests and one glucose test. She still has another glucose test to go so we will keep our fingers crossed. Her feedings are also up to 30cc, which is 1 whole ounce! They warned us to expect her to not gain any weight for a day or two as her body will be busy burning calories to keep herself warm. Today was such a great day, I hope I have more great news tomorrow.