the extraordinary life and times of kyle & erin

Friday, May 14, 2010

Recipe for a perfect baby...

two buff forearms

a few nicely toned triceps

one perfectly dimpled chin

throw in adorable nostrils (not too skinny!)

add one perfect tongue

(softly) stir in one beautiful singing voice

check for steller profile shot

10 little fingers and toes (please taste test first!)

place one stylish hat on head (horizontal stripes preferred)

and you get...

CHARLIE!

More pretty flowers!

My sister Erin Davis is pretty freaking awesome. Not only did Erin (Shannon) love the flowers, but a polka dot vase complete with an elephant?! That's pretty much a homerun. Thanks! :)

"Don't you wish your g-friend was hot like mine..."

Erin's up and walking! Before our sojourn she tried to fix her hair, and I was trying to help. Here was my solution:

9:40 am

Imagine a normal stretcher you'd see in the back of an ambulance. Now put a speck of that magic rock that turns normal objects into full blown machines (remember Transformers II, Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox and the crazy little boom box?)

That's what happened to the stretcher they took Charlie away in. This thing was bigger than a full adult stretcher, and looked more complicated than a 747 cockpit. They rolled her into our hospital room to say good bye before taking her downtown to the NICU. They said it weighed more than 300 lbs, and later the nurse said she thinks she was FLOWN downtown. We've never even been in a helicopter, Charlie! Geez! Next thing you know she's gonna want her own horse and trips to Italy. I guess it all starts now...

Thursday, May 13, 2010

the Late Night show

10:45 pm

Here's how MOM and DAD are doing... (disclaimer: Erin did not approve ANY pictures of her!)

...and here's how baby Charlie is doing!

Its tricky to get good pictures at this point, because she's inside a little oxygen chamber and the nurses won't let us take her out yet! She's healthy and alert, but a few indicators of respiratory complications remain, the foremost being a very rapid breathing rate.

When she was born our doctor had to remove quite a bit of Meconium from her nose and mouth (stool in the amniotic fluid). We learned this is not uncommon for babies who go full term or past their due date (Charlie is 3 days past hers), so everyone is being cautious with our new baby. They want to make sure there is no additional infection and they want any remaining Meconium to make its way out of her lungs.