Happy 4th of July!

Happy 4th of July everyone! Mikaila may get a chance to see her very first Alplaus 4th of July Parade as it proceeds at a snails pace past our house; the route is not at all surprising given Alplaus’ designation as the smallest population in a zip code within the continental US. It is hard to get around Alplaus without passing our house at some point.

Today we celebrate our declaration of independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. However, from this point forward, for the folks that frequent this blog, the 4th of July will hold another, perhaps less important significance. This evening, we will weigh Mikaila to conclude our little contest. We haven’t weighed her in a number of days so at this point, at least as far as we know, the winning number is still up in the air. We will weigh her in the buff after a diaper change and before her meal at 8pm.

I’ll do a quick update on Mikaila’s oxygen requirements. At this point, we can keep the oxygen off when she is sleeping comfortably. To be specific, if she is fairly comfortable following a feed, we can turn the oxygen off until she needs to be changed prior to her next feed. She always desats during changing; even when the oxygen is on. She doesn’t care for it. Frankly, it isn’t my favorite pastime either. She has gotten to the point where we can feed her without the need for supplemental oxygen fairly frequently. We are close. I can’t imagine her needing the oxygen beyond next week but I should reiterate that progress in this regard is far from linear.

I broke out the camcorder this morning that we bought for our wedding 2 ½ years ago. We bought this device in the place of hiring a videographer thinking we would use it later in life. To this point, it has been collecting dust in the hutch. The short videos we have posted on the blog have come from our camera. Our camcorder was fairly bleeding edge when we bought it; I believe it was the first camcorder to feature a hard drive as its storage format. I took a short clip this morning of Mikaila sleeping on my mother but before I post it, I will have to figure out how to convert it into a usable format. It records to a .pgi file- a format I have never come across.

More later. Enjoy your day.