More Big Steps for Olivia!

Miss Olivia continues to make great progress every day, thanks to God and the wonderful staff at Texas Children's. Here are the latest and greatest updates and changes!

• Olivia got upgraded on Monday from the Level 3 NICU (most intensive) to Level 2! Level 2 is way more laid back, and we are so happy to have her there now--especially because the next move after Level 2 will be to bring her HOME!
  
• She now weighs in at 4 pounds 7 ounces (or 2010 grams), so she is getting closer to having gained a full pound since birth, which is exciting! And, she has surpassed the magical 2000 grams threshold at which the doctors start considering sending babies home (assuming they're ready in all other areas as well).
• Today we started reintroducing Olivia to bottle feeding, as she has been fed exclusively through a tube into her nose for the last few weeks. She didn't finish the whole bottle, but she still did great--she was very interested in her milk and made it clear that she was not happy any time we took the bottle away for even a second! (she is definitely her mommy and daddy's child when it comes to eating...)
• We've started doing more developmental activities with Olivia, like reading to her and playing musical toys for her. The first time I played her Baby Einstein classical music toy a couple days ago, she almost immediately turned toward it and started opening her eyes!

Here are a couple pictures of Olivia in her "big girl bed" (a.k.a., a regular crib), which she moved into a week ago when the doctors decided she was ready to leave her heated isolette behind:




Here are Olivia and Daddy together a couple days ago, doing our favorite activity (skin-to-skin time):


As always, we want to thank all of you for your continued interest in how Olivia's doing, and all your support, friendship and prayers--it has meant so much to us!