Yesterday I had a day off from the hospital.  The frame on the chaise of our new sofa broke and I needed to wait for the furniture people to come pick it up for repair. We had one of those 1-4 windows of time and since Mike needs to be in the office today and tomorrow, he spent the day at the hospital with Finley.  Don't get me wrong, it was a gorgeous day outside and I got to go running and run a few errands and get Nate to the doctor to get his ears cleaned out (more on that later) but I was just missing my baby girl so much.  And I get increasingly frustrated with Mike when he's there because he isn't so good at sending me updates (I mentioned this in a previous post).  Needless to say, I am pretty sure Finley's nurse thought it was crazy that I called her for an update when my husband was sitting there right in front of her.  Oh well, I got my update now didn't I?  Finley also had a special visitor yesterday because her caregiver, Gigi, spent the day visiting Finley and got to hold her for a nice long nap. Finley must have gotten REALLY relaxed because at the end of that nap when Gigi went to put her back in her bed - she noticed Finley had had an enormous blow out on the pillow that she had been laying on on Gigi's lap!  I know what Gigi was thinking - thank God for that pillow!

Finley started the day pretty cranky and fussy so she got some medicine to make her more comfortable.  As of the morning read, none of her cultures had grown anything yet and her heart rate and breathing had been stable.  The antibiotics appeared to be doing their thing and when the surgeons rounded they seemed to think that things were under control - which is always reassuring.

And so Finley had the aforementioned nap and when she woke up - Gigi and daddy got a little treat and got to see the first post-surgery smile from our little princess.  Apparently Finley was chirping away and smiling - two things that are always a good sign that Finley is feeling better!  And of course - I MISSED IT! UGH.  That's okay - I am hoping for more smiles from my princess today!  My hope for today is that she will be completely weaned off the oxygen again - overnight when I called the nurse said she was off the hi-flow and was on a very minimal amount of oxygen.

My day off finally gave me a chance to take Nate to the doctor to have his ears checked.  He's been messing with his ear - sometimes he tells me it hurts - but he's sort of inconsistent on that and so I never know if it really hurts or not. He's got this thing where sometimes he will say - I have an infection mom - I need to go to the "hossible".  And we think that is because he wants to be like Finley.  Anyway, when we look in ear - we can actually see junk in there and have attempted to clean it out before - but I got to thinking I was pretty sure this kid could not possibly hear me well.  So I took him yesterday to have his ears checked.  As it turns out - the one remaining tube he had in his right ear was out and sitting inside his ear - completely surrounded by a ton of  weird ear junk.  And so in one fail swoop, the doctor scooped it out and out came THE biggest piece of ear junk ever - with this tiny blue tube in the center.  I am now convinced that there is no way Nate could possibly hear well in that ear - and he actually told me that he can hear better now! LOL!  So perhaps the fact that he doesn't listen isn't only attributed to the fact that he is three?