Who knew POOP was so exciting!!!

Cash had a big day yesterday, he got is ventilator out, we both got to hold him for the first time since he ws born, and he made poopy for the first time! The poop is very important in his case because of all the work they've done on his abdomen. Right now the only nourishment he gets is from an IV. He had been peeing well enough, but most of the waste from his food is coming back out of a tube in his stomache because he hasn't been able to process it properly. Now that the #2 is flowing the doctors will closely monitor is intake/output and decide when his tummy tube can come out. Then its onto breastmilk. Once he eats like a normal kid and maintains his temperature he can come home with us! We still don't dare guess when that will be, but the doctors still say he is right where they would like him to be at this point. Please

keep praying for forward progress, healing for kari's tummy and wisdom for the doctors and nurses. thank you all so much. -mitch