Update from Daddy

They had to change out the tube that goes in his mouth while we were there so they turned off the lights and took off his hat and we got this picture with his eyes open a little.

In the Mothers' Day poem it says 'Your angel will sing for you and will also smile for you. And you will feel your angel's love and be very happy.'

Earlier today I took Kimberly to the hospital so that she could see Spence. She told me that she put her hand on his little head and on his behind and sang Jesus wants me for a sunbeam and I am a child of God and one of his alarms went off. His oxygen saturation had gotten too high. When they get agitated the 02 sats go down. When they get nice and relaxed they can go up. This little angel's mother was singing him a song and he was relaxed. How soothing the touch of a mother can be.

Everything is holding steady, his tummy is the same, his bilirubin has dropped which is good but the immediate concern is his bowels so they can start feeding him. He had a transfusion today and he has gained some more weight he is up to 1lb 9 oz

For all the females reading the blog they give him fat through his IV.

We want everyone to know that we feel the prayers in our behalf. We have a peace that is not man made. It is still hard but the Lord has blessed us and continues to do so.

Orson F Whitney said

"No pain that we suffer, no trial we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our charecters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God...and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we came here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven."