Hayden and Donovan decided that in order to celebrate the beautiful weather outside today, they would leave their incubators and move to NICU cribs--hopefully for good. The move to the cribs is a big step. They both held their body temperatures up for 24 hours. They still have their glow worm lights for the jaundice.
They also both got reweighed tonight. Hayden now weighs more than Donovan. Hayden weighed 5 lbs 3 ounces. Donovan weighed 5 lbs 2 ounces. Donovan weighed more at birth. Donovan is currently leading the "I peed on Dad while he was changing my diaper contest" by a score of 3 - 1.
Donovan's IV came out tonight too, so he is entirely reliant on the feeding tube and on Melissa for food. Hayden's should come out sometime tomorrow. Their next big step is to learn to eat from the bottle or from Melissa in entirety. We still do not know how long they will be here, but we are guessing--uneducatedly--at about a week or so. Hopefully less.
More pictures should be up by late Tuesday night. I may post another video too. Melissa and I along with our stuff will get escorted out of the hospital around 7:00 p.m. I don't know what we will do--whether we will stay at the hospital and hang out with the boys and then go home or whether we will just head home. Either way, it will be sad. I am going to ask the folks at the hospital if they have janitors closet for us to stay in just in case.
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