Warp speed Mr. Sulu...

Connor,

Well hello there little man. Your mommy and daddy have been off schedule a little bit the last couple days and because of that we have been getting mixed on who is writing your notes and when. I promise we will get it together soon buddy. In the mean time I hope you can forgive us when we skip a day here and there, I swear its not us forgetting to tell you things, its actually just that we are getting to tell you some of those things while you are awake and looking at us.

You have spent more time awake and looking around with me lately but you have been getting a little time with mommy too. I think my schedule has just been a little bit more in sync with your schedule the last few days. But if there is one thing you have taught me about schedules lately its that they change constantly and your schedule is, how you may say, fluid? That is kind of a nice way of saying that your schedule changes any time you want it to change no matter what anyone else thinks. Considering what you have been through I think you deserve that though, so no complaints here.

So before I get to our little anecdote for the night I will give you a little update on what you have been doing the last day and a half. You spent most of yesterday sleeping and then apparently spent a good chunk of last night awake, or at least that is what we gather from the fact that they had to give you some sleepy medicine last night. But this morning you were awake when daddy got there and we got to play around a little bit before you took your nap. We even did a little bit of your calisthenics to make sure you were good and ready to sleep.

You are also making some progress on the red man front. It would appear that whatever it is that has been making you blush lately is starting to dissipate and you are coming back to a more normal skin tone. The doctors are all trying to figure it out now so that they can claim the fame of being "the one who solved the puzzle" but they are still stumped. Our deal is still intact though, so you just take your time and do it on your schedule like we talked about a minute ago.

Your breathing is getting better too. Your lungs look awesome on your x-rays and your breathing rates are right where they should be. The doctors decided you were ready for some trials again today and you have been kicking their butt. You did a "short" two hour trial and all your numbers were great so after a little rest they decided to put you on a four hour trial and you have been blasting right through that one too. You were both awake and asleep for a long time during that one and you seemed to be doing just fine on your own. You know what that means? Shhhh.... lets not spoil it.

Tomorrow morning you are going to be less one tube. Well, kind of. You see you have this itty bitty little piece of a tube in your nose right now to make sure it stays open and you have an even smaller piece of that tube in the other side of your nose. Those two little pieces are tied together (yep through your nose, OUCH) to keep them in place and make sure that your nose heals up just like its supposed to. And tomorrow, if things go like we think they will, you will get both of those little pieces out of your nose early tomorrow. So hopefully tomorrow night when mommy or I sits down to write your not we will have some good news about those tubes going bye bye.

And now for the little side story that ties into the last several days. Drum roll please..... Well maybe its not worth a drum roll but its something that your daddy and your uncle Sebastian and your Pappaw share, and that is a love of the show (and movies) Star Trek. In that old, and often times cheesy, show they had the ability to travel at warp speed through space. Warp speed is basically just a way of saying they are going super crazy fast and lately that is kind of how big chunks of the days have been going for mommy and daddy.

The big difference though, is that the days not only go in warp speed, they also go in reverse warp speed. I just made that one up but it ties in nicely here because it is a way of saying that some times the days drag on and on and take FOREVER. Like last Wednesday for instance. That was the day you had your first little blow up last week. That day lasted at least a week and the next twenty-four hours after that took even longer because we were waiting and waiting and waiting to see if the doctors could figure out what was going on and why you were so red and why your lungs weren't working. Since they figured out the lung problems and got them all fixed we have just been waiting to get to your next big step and on days like that (kind of like today) we find ourselves blinking and losing entire hours of our days.

So we keep going back and forth and back and forth in warp speed and reverse warp speed as we get closer and closer to that elusive day where your breathing tube comes out. But if it means we get to that day then "Warp speed Mr. Sulu!!". We will take it. You keep your schedule going the way you see fit just so long as we can agree to keep moving forward.

Now you keep sleeping and get yourself ready for the big days coming up. Sweet dreams little man.

I love you Connor.

- Daddy