let's get normal...

today was a pretty good day. we started out with a trip to the eye doctor (like each of the past 6 mornings) to check and see how the scratch was healing and how her eyelids were holding up. both were good. the scratch is still there but is much much smaller and should be totally gone in the next few days. in fact the doctor prescribed a new medicine to help prevent scarring - this means that they feel good enough about it healing that they are looking past the point of it being scratched to make sure it doesnt scar. that was pretty encouraging. and the eyelids have not flipped in two days and every day we further and further from the idea of surgery and closer to normal. yay! and get this - we don't have to take her in tomorrow! whoa! we get a day off! they want to see her again on friday to check her progress but a day off is a day off! the first day we took her in and ended up sitting in the crowded waiting room for about an hour. toward the end we asked if there was somewhere else we could wait seeing as how we have a 9-day-old baby with a nonexistent immune system. every day since then the nurse has recognized us and just sent us to the back (where it is much less crowded) when we get there. they are pretty nice.

in other news, cheryl's infection is close to gone. she went and saw her doctor today who said that things were looking good. now the trick will be to keep those ducts unclogged. lots of water, lots of rest and lots of baby feeding should be the answer. that was pretty miserable for cher so hopefully she won't have to worry about it anymore.

things have been so hectic the past few days that we realized about dinnertime that today she is two weeks old. whoa! its amazing how fast time flies. everyone tells us to try to soak in these times because they will be gone before we know it. as stressful, scary, exhausting and frustrating as the past fourteen days have been, we want to remember them forever. and we know we won't. that makes us sad. the tiny noises she makes. the kisses on the forehead. the way she kicks her feet when we change her diaper. her beautiful, beautiful baby eyes [pause]...all of these things are so special right now and i just hope and pray we can hold on to these memories for a long, long time.