Taylor is growing. She is now 3 lbs 12 oz! She still has the nasal cannula. It'll be gone by next week it sounds like. Her bed's lid has been raised and she's maintaining her own heat. She's in outfits now. Her constipation issues continue and they started giving her suppositories again on Sunday. She immediately responded on Sunday, and her poop was the talk of the NICU that day. Poor baby was a bit plugged up. She had her last vision test Tuesday morning and passed it with flying colors!!!
The next big thing to happen is for her to start breast feeding. That may happen as early as this week, but we've been told she should be doing that by next week and for Michelle to just assume she needs to be there daily from that point on. She will still be receiving some feeding by her feeding tube and that will be moved from her mouth to her nose sometime real soon. If the cannula goes, then it will be moved. Otherwise, they need for her nose to get a little bigger and then they'll slide it behind the cannula.
On a personal note, I'm really happy with what happened last night in America. There's a lot of people out there that wonder how people can bring kids in to the world with how messed up the world is. Its pretty simple really. I sit there and hold Taylor and all I see is peace and innocence. I see the curiosity and wonder in Haylee and Tristan and I know the world is going to be okay. I go to Haylee's school and I see the future and it doesn't scare me one bit. They'll keep the world turning. The world needs more kids.
My goal as a parent is really simple. If my kids grow up with curiosity and a constant desire to learn and to think for themselves, and a strong sense of empathy for others then I have done my job. That job is difficult at times with some of the things that have been going on in the world. There is so much prejudice and hate in this world. Its something I don't get at all. Its something I don't want my kids growing up with, but of course it can't be avoided. It is something however that we all need to change as much as possible.
Yesterday was a big day in America. Barack Obama was elected president. I don't know how he's going to be as president but I have never been so willing to give someone a chance like I have been with him. This decade has been a dark period in American history, and America's torch dimmed in my eyes. What America used to be has been replaced by hatred and fear and flat out incompetence. When Bush was elected president again 4 years ago, I was just plain shocked and I lost a lot of faith in people. Obama has restored some of that faith and hope for me though and I'm excited that he has been given a chance. I'm also scared to death that hatred may prevail in the end and extinguish his torch before he has that opportunity to prove himself.
But right now I'm happy for my kids. If Obama's who I think he is and he makes it through his two terms, then Taylor will be 8 years old and Haylee 16 before he's out of office. Taylor will still be too young to really understand, but Haylee will (I already bore her to death with political talk). They all will hopefully be brought up in a better America. An America that believes in hope and once again takes on the world not with guns and selfishness and hate, but with knowledge and cooperation and hard work. A country that shows my kids that people are inherently good and that there's a chance for peace in the world if we only allow ourselves to believe. A place where my kids will know they have an opportunity to be anything they want to be and hopefully a place again where they can attend the best schools in the world w/out bankrupting Michelle and myself. A place where we can all dream the American dream again. I may be proven wrong in the end, but at least for now America's torch is burning bright again. It was a wonderful night and I dare hope for a better tomorrow.
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