Great day

We've been getting some great smiles from Ashley this week, and I was excited to capture one on camera.

Here is Hope with her new cervical collar. I was pretty excited to find out that it was pink. Doesn't she look cute. We tried her in the feeding chair and she didn't start foaming but she did get lethargic within a minute which makes me think her breathing is still an issue even with the collar. Today she has been cooing all day and happy (with a hint of a smile, the real smiles haven't come back yet). The only time she stops cooing is when we hold her up or put her in the feeding chair, and then her eyes droop, her breathing changes and the secretions increase till you can hear them rattling around in her chest --- so we just won't do that.

We've also started treating her mouth with Nystatin because she has Thrush, a fungal infection which can be very painful in the mouth. Since we've started treating that, she's stopped crying all together. YEAH!