learning to laugh and other adventures

keeping weird hours definitely messes with my productivity. billy and my sleep schedules are all over the place this weekend being that there seems to be a home nursing shortage at the moment. right now i'm not quite tired enough to sleep, but too tired to do anything, so i'll just veg out on the glider-rocker and write a blog.

rowan is fast asleep on his boppy on the floor next to me. he is the picture of peacefulness. heck, he's not even breathing. he's letting the vent do that for him. must be nice to have that option! as long as he remembers to breathe when the time comes to be off the vent then that's okay with me. relax now while you can, little man...

billy and i spent the better part of the afternoon trying to make rowan laugh. he was actually doing well with his speaking valve (which lately he hasn't been doing so hot with), so we got to enjoy hearing him make some noise. we didn't hear a laugh exactly, but we think he tried. it sounded a little like a loud exhale while he was smiling really big. his other favorite thing to do is lay in his jungle gym and swat at stuff. the jungle gym has three animals hanging from the top that he can look at: a monkey, an elephant, and a lion. he always wants to swat the lion. even when we move the animals around and put the lion in a different place, he always seems to find it and SWAT! bye-bye lion. then he puts his hands together and stares it down as if he's coming up with an evil scheme. one of his nurses thinks that he's hired the monkey and the elephant to take care of the lion for him, but i'm pretty sure he wants to do the job himself:

"i'll get you yet!"

doesn't he look like he's totally determined to do some damage there? trust me, this is one baby you DON'T wanna mess with, mr. lion.

well that's about all i have to report for now. guess i'll find some other non-productive activity to work on!