Great day!

It was a great day for little Ms. Charlotte. She has put on a little more weight and is about 5 grams away from being 4lbs. Once she reaches that mark she'll be big enough to be put in a "crib" in the NICU. Hopefully then we can get some better pictures of our little angel! Per the request of her fans we'll try to get a full length shot so you can see how big she's gotten.

Another good piece of news that I got this evening was that Charlotte took 20 cc's of food from the bottle today!!! This is a huge accomplishment for her and we're so happy. It took her about 8 minutes to eat all of the 20 cc's but the nurse said that she did it without any struggle. We hope that she keeps up the good work but they won't push her. She'll only be given the bottle maybe once or twice a day and probably not for the full feeding of 35 cc's. They don't want her to burn too many calories working at eating. They want to make sure that she keeps gaining weight and getting strong.

I also met with one of the physical therapists and she said that Charlotte is doing good with her excercises. She is tolerating them very well and there isn't anything that Charlotte does or doesn't do to raise any red flags.

Other big news (for Mom) is that Charlotte's crib and dresser came today!!! Yay! Now she'll have a place to sleep when she gets home. I'm sorry that there are no pictures today but I was so excited about all the good news that I wanted to get home and let you all know and I forgot to take a picture. In my defense, she does look about the same - just maybe a smidge cuter! Daddy will be home tomorrow so you'll be back to your regularly scheduled programming...