I'm too tired for a creative title

Today was a very busy day, but I feel like we don't have a whole lot to show for it. Emma's incision is healing, but there's still a pretty big hole in the middle of it...healing is going to take a while. The good news, though, is that Dr. Troup said that since her incision split open right there, she won't have a scar; the skin will just regrow there instead of scar.

Emma's shunt surgery was supposed to be Thursday; due to a very unfortunate turn of events (I'm not being sarcastic here), it could now be Friday. I won't bore you with the details, but there are 3 options as to when the surgery will be: Thursday morning, late Thursday afternoon, or Friday. If it's late Thursday afternoon, there's a pretty good chance we won't know about it until they walk in her room that afternoon and say, Hi, we're here to take Emma to surgery. If it's Thursday morning or Friday, we should know for sure tomorrow.

Emma had a couple tests run this morning to detect any serious bladder problems. We received definite results from one of the tests, and the NICU doctor was still waiting to see the results from the other one; however, he "heard" that they were good. I think the NICU docs keep each other informed about all the babies, but they don't want to report anything to patients without seeing the actual results themselves. These tests will be repeated as Emma gets older, I think in approximately 6-month increments. Just because these two particular tests come back good doesn't mean she won't have ANY bladder issues, but these tests pick up on a couple really serious problems.

I finally got to hold Emma tonight at her 9:00 feeding, and she's REALLY squirmy when she's being burped. She's got a pretty strong neck already, and she's always turning it back and forth on her own. Tonight she also tried to start crawling, I swear. The nurse was amazed at how Emma just hitched her knees up under her and looked ready to take off!



When we put Emma on her back in her crib, she doesn't know what to do with her arms and legs with nothing to lean them on. The result is arms and legs straight up in the air, and it's hilarious to watch. I tried to catch a little of that in this picture, but the picture really doesn't do the whole production justice.